Besides scaring the crap out of your friendly local town dwellers, you guys have managed to pull off a tasty bit of cinematography here. Our only wish was that you followed that guy at the end a bit more. You know, to his car... to his house...to the bedroom...into his mind.
Anyway, great effort. Especially as the batteries had run down on the suit...well recovered.

Cheers to Ness and Andy for their sterling efforts with El Capitan. We particularly liked the bubble bath ending and the impromptu street yoga classes. Maybe there's a market for that sort of thing?
Anyway, you braved the rain for giffgaff, and we appreciate it.

Not sure why this video doesn't fit in its place though...

Because gimp has been so good to you lot over the last month or two, we decided we would let him take a wee holiday...snowboarding. However what we didn't tell him was that he was still a gimp and that he had a hirer. Gimp didn't say anything so we assumed he was okay with it all.
Thanks to Ben and friends for keeping the gimp well maintained and lubricated throughout the holiday. He has come back with a jump in his step and some great holiday snaps. Although his suit has a few tears from the half-pipe incident.

Cheers for the video. Love the bananas.

Somewhere in deepest darkest suburbia a group of local lads have taken the Musicle bike and brought some phat soundz to the street. By connecting their pimped up bmx's to the bespoke and classical elegance that is The musicle - they have struck a new form of fear into zimmer-clad wanderers everywhere, bless their souls.
Well done lads.

Meet Derek, the boy who became famous after a nasty accident which left him fused with a photobooth. Life for Derek has changed dramatically as you would expect. His parents here tell their story.

It was a long weekend for Pierre. High Wycombe's favourite artist in residence, was accused of stealing people's PIN numbers by doing caricatures at the cash point. The police got involved after complaints and seized some the footage. Luckily though, Pierre managed to hide a tape in his baguette. This is all that is left from the encounter.

Nice one guys.

Some nice thinking here from Stephanie and friends. They thought it would be good to hire out the Human hand dryer and take to the streets. As you can see, they chose a public toilet to work their mischief.
Well done guys, really beautifully shot and edited too.

Well done Les, this is what it's all about - complete digital saturation, well, 14 followers is a good start at least. If anyone here is on twitter will you kindly befriend our friend...

https://twitter.com/LesThePigeon

This is probably the best example we've come across so far of... balls.
Balls as in large testicles, not rubbish.
Sometimes to create art one has to go where other people fear to tread. Well, Rich Fuller, you have surpassed yourself here. Obviously we cannot condone such irresponsible behaviour but we're sure you took all necessary precautions when staring down the grills of the oncoming traffic.
This deserves some kind of medal, perhaps one of those plastic ones they give out at Legoland after you've panned for gold.

Living in a democracy means that sometimes the public gets what the public wants, and in the case of tool hire it seems that The Cuddle Monster and Captain Stress Relief are what the public wants. No problem, we can handle that.
Here's another one of your videos with El Capitano this time in the style of documentary reportage (?) in probably Tool Hire's most professional outing yet. But one question, Sanjiv are you mean't to be Martin Bashir or Johnny Depp?

Witney, that sleepy hollow on the road to Cheltenham, famed for its Chiltern brickwork, country pubs...and now one of its beret wearing, brush wielding inhabitants. Never before have so many owed so much to so few. Pierre, mon cheri, you did your cheese eating countrymen proud.

Our favourite masterpiece has to be the portrait of David Cameron closely followed by the Diversion road sign.

Boff!

It all started off so well. The dark alleyway, the tense, pitch perfect script, even a tiny begging lady, but then, just when you thought you understood where this cinematic piece de resistance was headed. Bang! Out she comes.
Won't say anymore. Except... Theo, you did well to hold on to the camera. I think the guy was just jealous of your moves.
One magic V.I.G. SIM winging it's way to you as fast as the nation's mail will carry it...so should be with you next month.

The snows came, most people decided to build snowmen or throw it at one another, but Kevin here thought that wasn't enough. He thought that he would hire out the Poo Handler. It makes some sense because the dog mess stands out quite well against the white background, plus there's nothing worse than a tobogganing session that ends with a mixture of snow and Ex-Pedigree Chum in your gob.
So thank you Kevin from Leek (Leek, really?) we enjoyed your video. The GhostBusters soundtrack was a nice touch. If only you had one of those ghost trap things that sucked in the poo. Ah well.

We’ve been trying from the start of Tool Hire to reach as many orders as possible, but the tools are in demand and we have been limited by how far our Tool Hire van can make it in a day.

We have had some really keen potential Tool Hireys contact us from the far North of Scotland and over the water in the Republic of Ireland, and it has always been a shame when we have had to say that we can’t get the tool to them. We’ve also had some absolute chancers from Australia and the US who will have to wait until Gimp goes on his holidays.

So, it was really nice this week when Kelvin (our master of the Tools) made one of those unfortunate calls and found out that Laura from Aberdeen was so keen to hire a tool she was willing to come and join us for an afternoon of Photo Booth action on the streets of London.

Laura, we are really looking forward to seeing your Photographer handiwork.

In other giffgaff news, Captain Stress Relief has been spotted providing some tactile respite from the snowy conditions on the mean streets of Bristol. Things got so bad that the Captain himself took a tumble on the ice. And I think it is the measure of a true superhero that he has not edited out that gaff from the final take.

The tool shedders returned in various states of disrepair yesterday morning to kick start a new year of tool hiring. The general consensus in the shed is that 2009 was brilliant, but 2010 is a new decade, so it is time to take Tool Hire to a new level.

When film directors and screen writers in the 70s and 80s looked forward to 2010 they envisioned hover boards and laser guns, sadly, although our skills are many in the shed, these inventions are still not here. In the meantime though what could be better than a good old cycle powered gramophone, or a superhero who can take away the nation’s post holiday blues.

Christmas may be over, but it’s giving spirit lives on in Tool Hire. Go on, spread a bit of peace, love and madness in 2010.

And to kick start things with some panache here is some caricature artistry from Mr William Gordon.

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Er? Cheers lads.
You seem to have taken the cuddle monster to new extremes. We especially enjoyed the cuddle training sessions and the loud hailer. Also you seem to have invented different cuddle styles depending on who you were cuddling...the oldies got a nice, gentle one, the rest of us got the full English. Nice.
Feel free to hire another tool guys, we think Worcester's favourite sons can do more for their people's.

So Pierre went to Swansea wanting to share his artistic genius with his Welsh brethren. Sadly the local authorities didn't think much of his talents and he was subsequently refused to ply his trade in the town centre. But Pierre didn't surrender, no he found a little cafe and continued to offer his caricatures to the locals.
Cheers Josh, a masterpiece if we may say so.

So being the well connected people that we are, we got YouTuber Paperlilies to hire out a tool of her choosing. First she wanted Roller Hockey Action Man but that is still in the shed getting repaired after Barnaby's meeting with the wall. Second choice was Happy Feet which we delivered to her doorstep.

We weren't sure what would happen next...would she go to Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park and hand out wooly socks to the skate hirers? Or would she go off on a complete tangent from the comfort of her house?
Yup, you guessed right.
Thanks Bryony for your hire, it was a work of pure creativity. For everyone else though, stick to the rules. Wooly socks for ice skaters, not for straining tea. Deal?

The shed is back and buzzing again, this time with the strange sound of Public School beatings. We're keeping a lid on what exactly the new tool is for the time being...

But, what we will say is that this tool is going to be a real bonus for the public.

Ooh suit you sir!



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H'okay...use your imaginations. Actually maybe not.

When we devised the giffgaff tools we imagined that whilst cleaning up poo may be very noble pursuit, it would not be very popular as an incentive. So it was with some surprise that the first tool out the blocks should be Poo Handler.


Pete was our man in York getting knee-deep in it. His commitment to the task was admirable. Poo shouldn't be the type of thing you weigh by the Euro-required kilo, but the boy brought the booty home like apples from the supermarket. No stone was left unturned. And Duncan on camera boldly went where no camera man has been before: within an inch of a white furry poo. We actually thought that white furry poo only existed in cartoons and exaggerated childhood memories. But yes we have it on film.

giffgaff does not endorse poking fun at people on Zimmer frames. But given that it is there on film like a fat child in a scary ride, we are obliged to laugh.

A great first video. Poo-finity and beyond!

So here's the final creation. As you can see, there's a lot of bubble wrap.
You'll notice the studio setting, yes, we're getting the tools nicely photographed for the Tool hire site which is going Live tomorrow.


Pop. Ah that's better.