Receipt deceit offer from tattoo parlour

New Year, new you. So the saying goes. Or perhaps it should be New Year, new recriminations. Readers may feel that once the spirit of the festive season has died down, January can be a particularly gloomy time.

Then you start to wonder if the money spent on some of your Christmas presents was really worth it.

Thankfully, a tattoo shop in town has come up with a great solution for anyone who has popped in to get inked for Christmas, or made the decision to go under the needle to reinvent themselves.

The sign in the door reads: “For an additional £10, we will provide a receipt that matches what you told your wife you paid.”

It’s a really entrepreneurial idea and is sure to help with difficult questions about cash flow before the next pay day.

Readers may be struggling to find where they’ve put all their presents after Christmas and thankfully the Kentish Express was sent an intriguing email about the best technique to find what you’re looking for.

According to research done by Energy PR, the best thing to do if you can’t find what you’re looking for isn’t to retrace your steps.

No. Instead they say the best strategy is to bark like a dog.

We don’t know what the PR firm was trying to promote, as the press release looked a bit barking to us. We doubt any of our reporters will attempt the technique if they lose the office diary.

Readers may be thinking of escaping the winter blues by booking their next holiday.

We received a curious email over the festive period telling us Ashford could be home to the country’s worst passport photo.

The email couldn’t have come at a better time, as we know plenty of readers will be eagerly awaiting the chance to update to the new blue British passport.

But before you do, you may want to enter a competition run by travel agent Florida4Less which is offering a £75 Amazon voucher for the country’s worst pic.

The agents say that when we go into the booth, we end up with a glut of gormless pictures from unflattering angles, and of course bad hair days.

If you think yours is the worst, you can enter the competition online by visiting www.florida4less.co.uk/ blog/secret-florida/travel/ competition-passport-photofail.

But make sure you read the terms and conditions first.

Happy New Year to all our readers.

Tattoo shop’s interesting offer