Today I am celebrating one of the best investments I have made in recent years and another judicious reason to open some champagne! It is exactly four years that I got the keys to one of crucial machines that help make the best use of time and keep my carbon footprint almost traceless! My black G-Wiz may not follow Ormonde Jayne’s sleek design, but after four years, I can vouch that it shares our great service. For those of you not familiar with G-Wiz’s unlimited advantages for getting about in central London, it is entirely electric.  

                                                                                                                                                                  

My spotless commute to Old Bond Street takes just 12 minutes and is entirely emission-free. At a pinch I could even pick up three other petite passengers or load up back with yet more supplies. At the moment it’s the latter as our perfume Osmanthus has been selling out this month after a raving magazine review. Ormonde Jayne’s Osmanthus is one of our oldest first perfumes launched in 2002 and gets many compliments. In the last two years there have been a few more scents with osmanthus from Keiko Mecheri The Different Company and Parfum d’Empire and I was even asked if ours was inspired by one of them by a journalist recently! I had to quietly point out that Ormonde Jayne’s was first by five years!

But I am digressing from the birthday girl! My G-Wizz means I never have to pay congestion charge and even better…I can park at any parking meter on Old Bond Street without paying one red cent. It’s the laziest way to join a revolution!  A side benefit to this is the continually feel good factor watching uninitiated parking wardens desperately scrutinizing my G-Wiz, trying to find a way to issue a ticket …and failing!  I can even park it at right angles because it’s so small (some others might say runt-like) and it costs a thrifty 1p a mile and 30 pence to charge its battery!                              

Other more recent converts to the G-Wiz include Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Ross, Joanna Page and my starter for 10, Bamber Gascoigne.  But its advocate I am most thankful for is Boris Johnson who will hopefully ensure the scurrilous plans to ban it in London will be ripped to shreds! So Happy 4^th Birthday to Lucie and to your long-but-low carbon future!