When my friend’s brother was younger, he had a cat called Scallywag, a tom cat. One holiday, they were driving round a roundabout in Birmingham (not sure if that was the final destination of their holiday – I shall resist all other comments) and Scallywag made a bid for freedom through the slightly open back [...]
Author Archive > Helen
Reality TV as we know it…
Ah the summer has started - no, it’s not the torrential rain that’s told me that, it’s Big Brother back on our screens! Rachel announced to me yesterday that she wouldn’t be watching this year, and is going to read intellectual books and possibly learn to knit or something worthy [...]
How much effort is it to recycle?
I read this article in the latest issue of The Resource Recovery Forum weekly round up (I love reading about recycling! I’ll get back to you when I’ve read the Waste Strategy), what do you think? Does The Laundry make it easy for you to recycle, or is it all a lot of hard work?
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Share your email pain here
This week, I have been thinking about emails. It seems all modern and shiny, but did you know the first systems that sent messages between computers started in 1965? The email address as we know it today, with the @ symbol, was invented in 1972 and now more than 600 million people internationally use email.
Do you want to be a record breaker?
After Edd’s comment on the blog yesterday about cup stacking records (have a look here and visit the link for an amazing display of cup stacking – never thought I’d be so impressed by that!), it got me thinking about world records.
There are the Colin Jacksons of this world who do very credible things such [...]
Less rubbish, more recycling!
Have a look here for a story that caught my eye this morning. Councils that have gone onto domestic rubbish collections every other week have seen an increase in recycling rates - interesting eh?
Fame at last!
We’ve hit the big time - well, in the recycling world at least. Letsrecycle.com wrote a lovely little story about our Laundry party,
look here for the full story! (scroll down a bit when you open the link)
Rubbish Recycling
A serious post today, about recent happenings in the rubbish and recycling world. We were interested to read this story about a waste company being fined for shipping mixed waste abroad.
Party
More photos from last night coming soon - but we just wanted to share this one with you, it’s Team Laundry, past and present! From left to right - Bronwen, Luke, Harry, Rach, John, Jess, Helen and Ben.
Are you posh or not?
Now, a lot of you have met me, and a lot of you have spoken to me on the phone. So you’re not going into this having never met me – am I posh? This became the topic of conversation at lunch time. Jess, one time Laundry lady, rates people’s poshness on a scale of [...]
A mouse in my house!
Last week, there was a mouse in my house…
It all started a couple of weeks ago when I came home to find my housemate prowling the house in his dressing gown, armed with a saucepan and a bowl of carrots. He was on a mouse hunt, as he’d spotted one [...]
When will I, will I be famous?
Lucky old me, I went to see Fame the musical the other day in Dartford (when I said I was going to Dartford, someone in the office said to me, isn’t that just a tunnel? Well I can confirm that it’s not just a tunnel, there’s a theatre, a car [...]
Celebrity Schmoozing
The hot topic of conversation this week at Laundry HQ has been celebrity spotting, after I had an exciting brush with celebrity when I was in A&E on Monday night (don’t worry I’m fine, I was accompanying a friend after a not-very-nice affair, but he’s doing better now). Hmmm I thought that man looks [...]
The Laundry’s got a new van!
Well no, not really. But we would really really like one of these:
(full story and picture can be found here)
Why is throwing the javelin blindfolded like playing the banjo?
As mentioned in an earlier post, my dad plays the banjo. The banjo (or rather banjos, he has a whole fleet of them (is that the collective noun?) in different shapes and sizes, big ones, small ones, fat ones, thin ones, long ones, short ones (ooo it’s like Dr Seuss) but [...]
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