Amy Childs, Ed Miliband and Gavin Henson might be among the UK’s most well known faces, but new research reveals that when it comes to personality they are simply a turn off. So much so that Brits actually find the company of a houseplant more stimulating and enjoyable than the sight and sound of so-called ‘personalities’.

Subjects were played footage of Essex and Westminster’s finest, as well as a host of other celebrities and were told to leave the room when the tedium got too much.  Not surprisingly, our crotons, stephanotis and orchids (those are all houseplants in case you didn’t know) fared significantly better than many of the talking heads who fill our screens. The story was covered in Daily Star, The Sun and Mail Online with plenty of Twitter chat around the findings.

The research was released to launch the www.meandmyplant.co.uk Perfect Plant Match service for Flower Council of Holland, helping people to start beautiful relationships with houseplants, and giving away thousands of free Me & My Plant coffee table books.

We will be touring UK cities over the next couple of weeks with a Blind Date style Plant Match event, matching people and plants and spreading the green love.  If you feel your life could be a better place with a plant to keep you company check out facebook.com/meandmyplant for locations.

Lunch hours always seem to fly by at work, and how often does it seem that no sooner have you stepped out for a fulfilling meal than you’re back at your desk? Well, as new research from our clients at Campbells shows, that’s no surprise – because it seems that only 1% of Brits actually take their full lunch hour!

It’s a lunchtime crime that many of us here at Cow are guilty of *hands up*, but while it used to be a burst of fresh air to recharge those batteries, the average person now spends just 15 minutes eating… With nearly a third of us staying anchored to our desks to catch up on celebrity gossip, Facebook, Twitter and sport news.

And press agree it’s certainly one for us all to seriously think about, with the story covered by The Daily Mirror, The Daily Star, The Mirror online as well as The Daily Express and The Express online. Followers of Campbells on Twitter were also alerted at 12.25pm that most of the nation were sitting down for their ‘lunch quart’…

The spectacle of a someone diving for cover from an out of control skier on the piste is a pretty familiar one. It could be youthful high-jinx, an adrenalin-rushing speed skiing junkie may be trying to beat his best speed on his GPS app or simply someone worse for wear after way too much schnapps in their chalet. Today research by MORE TH>N Travel revealed these are all factors why British skiers say ‘speed skiing’ is a danger and they want something done about it. In fact, some people are livid about it!

Feelings are so strong that many Brits heading abroad this season would like to see the sort of deterrents and punishments applied to the slopes as we see on our roads – including speed cameras, fines and bans. As for safety, our research revealed a split on ski helmets: almost half of skiers wear them and think they should be compulsory; the other half, well, helmets just just cramp their style, dude. The story has been covered today by The Daily Mail, The Sun, Metro, Daily Telegraph Travel created something of a stir and reopened debate in the online skiing community and travel sites about safety, aggressive skiers and we’ve gone thrown speed cameras into it for the first time for good measure.

Is Simon Cowell The Messiah or just a very naughty boy? Or are the kids just in a merry old Christmas muddle as our story for Woolworths.co.uk, splashed all over the FRONT PAGE of the Daily Star today, shows. Revealing that a quarter of confused British kids believe Christmas is a celebration of pop mogul Simon Cowell’s birthday, our survey also suggests that 25% of youngsters think that baby jesus was born in Brentwood, Essex.

At the time of this blogpost – coverage, tweets and comments are still rushing in, but we can already count The Daily Express, Daily Mirror Online, Daily Mail Online, Sky News and This Morning as enthusiastic purveyors of the news – as well of course as The Daily Star Front Page.

More to come, so watch this space…

We all know of the dreaded ‘7 year itch’ driving many a stable relationship onto the rocks… But we were able to reveal with property pals at Zoopla.co.uk that it applies equally to the way that we feel about our homes. Indeed, the average British homeowner looks around at other properties on the market after seven years and four months in their current home, in what has been coined as ‘the end of the homey-moon period’.

And with The Daily Mail, The Express, The Record and AOL revealing that 52% of Brits who are currently house hunting have admitted that they feel guilty about looking at other properties, 56% go even further to say they have gone as far as to hide their hunt from partners, family or housemates…

Nick Leeming of Zoopla.co.uk has shed light on why we’re succumbing to these guilty searches suggesting “Property websites have made looking at what else is out there easier than ever and no doubt there are many supposedly happy homeowners secretly taking a quiet peak whilst their partner is none the wiser.”

This time of year, ice skating rinks are springing up all around the country… So, in the benevolent spirit of the Give Flowers campaign from Flower Council of Holland (giving 10 bouquets away each day to show how lovely giving flowers away can be whatever the occasion), Cow PR took our glamorous Give Girls down to the Tower of London ice skating rink last week to hand out pick-me-up floral bouquets to everyone who took a fall on the ice.

Not content with that, we were then straight off to bring flower power to Hyde Park Winter Wonderland on Saturday and Sunday.  We handed out thousands of bouquets to people ‘getting a lift’ on the big wheel, and brought smiley, happy flowers, as well as silly wigs and squishy noses, to Zippos Circus audiences.

Photos galore are up on facebook – and thousands of happy Christmas revelers resplendent with floral reminders of their great day out!