I am working on a new default skin.
Here is the current rough version:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/upload/0/00/Paddington-2.html
comment on it here: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddington_skin
I won't have time to do much work on this for another few weeks -- but if people put comments in now it would be a great help. Please could ambassadors mention this on their wikipedias, so we can get feedback from all the different languages.
-- tarquin