If you see an elephant trundling full tilt down the road in a state of panic, don’t worry, it just means that the pachyderm was the recipient of one of Microsoft UK Ltd’s surprise packages that have been causing secretaries to squeal and jump on chairs all over the country: we haven’t seen one around here, but the Daily Telegraph City Diary records that the company thought it would be an enormously jolly jape to send out little boxes punched with air holes to 6,000 dealers, which when opened cause a furry mouse to jump out and twirl its tail; the idea is to promote mouse awareness, and only on closer inspection does the recipient spot that the rodent is only clockwork.
