I’ve been so impressed with you Launderers’ poetic abilities in haiku that I am setting you another challenge. Palindrome! The curious art of making sentences read the same backwards as they do forwards. The word palindrome is derived from the Greek palíndromos, meaning running back again. Apparently there are a number of folk out [...]
Author Archive > Harriet
Reasons to be cheerful
The nights are getting darker and my toes are getting colder, maybe it’s because our eco office hasn’t turned the heating on yet. Or maybe it’s the chills from Halloween weekend, wa ha haaah.
Some say pah, stupid americanised commercial money spinner (you could buy a wooden broomstick in my local supermarket this year and a [...]
The Kitchen
Here at our colourful home of BedZed we’re getting a new kitchen fitted and, as I write, there are things going bump through the wall. This all got me thinking about slightly worrying kitchen discoveries: not that we made any here I’m sure, but those of us who’ve been students or lived in well-cheap accommodation [...]
Magpie Magic
One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret never to be told
I saw a couple of magpies on the way to work this morning, and saluted them both, which is what I’ve always done. But, (after thinking ‘ooh maybe magpie superstitions could make a good [...]
Lucky Laundry Lovers’ Dazzling Green Credentials
Did you know that by separating your recycling before we pick it up means we are able to guarantee that 100% of what you put out to recycle is actually recycled? Well it is, and for every tonne of 100% recycled office paper produced, we save 17 trees from being chopped down. Although superficially it [...]
Rain
Our courier organiser Rosy has told me that all of September is going to be wet, wet, wet so to get you in the mood here are some traditional Japanese poems about rain.
Bank holiday rail replacement woe
I told my dad I could be in Northampton, or more accurately, somewhere near-ish to Northampton at 11 in the morning on Saturday. I agreed to this when I was in a slight merry mood on Friday night. When I got up at 8 on Saturday feeling a little delicate, I discovered that none of [...]
Holiday romance…
I’m sure Rachel will be mightily disappointed to be missing out on this most gossipy of emails, but she is right this minute having her own very romantic holiday with her much immortalised man. So, with lots of people in the office coming and going from holidays, we got ourselves thinking about r o m [...]
Quintessentially…
This weekend I went away to Nicole’s 40th birthday, she’s a lovely workmate, here at the charity. Also there was Jill, another work pal, who’s just moved here from the USA. I couldn’t think of a more quintessentially British experience for her than coming to a party in an Arts and Crafts style village hall [...]
Ownsome lonesome
This week has mostly been a lonely time for working at The Laundry, at least one of us has been away the whole time. So today I thought I’d write about games to play by oneself . (Not that I would be playing games at work. Or that I would have time to with the [...]
Interview with a laundrette…
To get to know our Rachel and Harry a bit better we thought this week we’d quiz ourselves on some of life’s important quandaries…
Say Cheese
It’s a photo montage moment.
The Laundry has been out and about having fun recently, too much fun to write an email. Here are the snaps from our BioRegional (charity that runs the Laundry) day out, who knew there was so much wildlife in Deptford?
Build-a-team
We are having our BioRegional (that’s the charity that The Laundry is a part of) staff day out this Monday. We are going are going on a nature walk by the Thames, which sounds quite exciting- bit worried by mention of ‘waders’s- apparently it’s when the tide is out so we can see all sorts [...]
There was a young launderette from Hackbridge…
The limerick form can be traced back several hundred years is normally satirical or downright rude. According to Wiki, Gershon Legman, who compiled the largest and most scholarly anthology, held that the true limerick, as a folk form, is always obscene.
Boozy Diversions
Whilst in our local last Friday, we got to talking about pub games and the more we talked, the more games we realised we knew. There are so many pub games across this diminutive island of ours, all different shapes and sizes and often with dedicated league players and supporters. For example, Steph’s from Bedfordshire [...]
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