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.
Author Archive > Harriet
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 [...]
I love the back of your hand
This week is all about the best compliments, so please excuse the back handed compliment above. Cymbal please, bud dum tschhhhh.
Jo told me over lunch that Men’s Health has done a survey to find out the top 10 compliments that their readers love to hear. According to science (yes science can be sociological) 90% of [...]
Idle hands do the devil’s work
We are a creative bunch; must be all the rainy days, but hobbies are a curious pursuit. I don’t mean things like yoga or book-club, but fiddly pernickety things like model-making, building ships in bottles and creating tens of metres of track for teeny-weeny trains.
Soul Mates
Ok, so this might be the geekiest email I’m going to write. For about 8 years now I’ve been collecting pairs of words. I find it a bit hard to describe…it’s adjectives and adverbs that only seem to exist to describe one noun only.
For example
Dulcet Tones
I don’t care what the weather man says, I’m gambling.
OK forgive the rambling I just realised I have to write this bit of the email and I have about 10 minutes before our after work staff catch up starts.. anway:
There’s a lot of ‘will it’ ‘won’t it’ dilly dallying going on about the weather this summer and forecasters have started to predict stuff, saying [...]
Dream Theme
My friend Soph (also a committed Laundry user, he he) is having a Murder Mystery Party for her birthday this year. Being a huge fan of Cluedo myself (used to try and play it on me own- which you can’t, don’t try it- you’ll find it most unfulfilling), I am really excited about the whole [...]
Mayday Mayday
At my primary school we had this headmaster called Mr Mather who was well into his May Pole dancing. Every year he used to get out his accordion and each class in the school would have a go at careering in between each other directed by his megaphone! Swinging off the brightly coloured ribbons- often [...]
The Sound of Music
Just a quickie from me today. (Phew! I hear you cry). I’m thinking sounds, I’m thinking radio plays and imaginative producers, I’m feeling inspired by a conversation about apples…One of our colleagues here at BioRegional was involved in a live audience recording of apple-crunching at the Barbican. This sound then became part of a tune [...]
Golden Thread
I have been trying to learn how to knit recently and have been mainly constructing small squares of striped material. Although useless in more ways than you can imagine, the dream that one day that I might actually make something beautiful keeps me going. Some of the stuff I indulge my imagination in are tales [...]
My name is…
After getting a rather touching blog comment from a certain Blarg who’s cat is (incidentally) called Laundry (see http://www.flickr.com/photos/blargblarg/2285206534/ for a pic) it got us Laundrettes thinking about other people and animals in our lives with funny names by coincidence.
Introducing Stephanie
Greetings! With this email I am going to introduce myself, Steph – new member of the Launderettes, to you, our lovely and supportive Laundry customers (your reputations precede you, it seems!), with a certain panache, verve and jingle jangle of accompaniment, so here we go…
Pig-say.
Last week we had a flurry of pigness. First, Philippa’s pink milkshake bottle pig, then told us about the Pig of Happiness (how apt), then I remembered Apple Pigs, one of my fav children’s books.
Rachel’s Happiness Study
I’ve been doing some research into how to save the planet and make people happy at the same time. I like to think the Laundry hits both targets, ker-ching.
Here are some eerie facts I learned while studying:
Happy Leap Day
Leap years are there because our calendar is squiffy. Years aren’t actually 365 days long, but rather 365.2422 and so if we didn’t insert the odd day here and there throughout the years, over time we’d end up out of sink with the seasons and eventually might be able barbeque Christmas dinner. I think I [...]
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