I recently treated my family to a special trip to see Motown sensations The Temptations. My mum slipped over on St Leonard’s steps (famous Shropshire landmark in the summer after a glass or two of wine revelling with her 30 year old friends and broke her leg. Mum was reallly worried about people standing up [...]
Author Archive > Rachel
Unaware (and unprepared)
A stone
minding its own business in a field
suffocates a plant
- Ivor Cutler
A short poem for my short comings at not putting enough time aside for the blog - bad planning.
I’d like you to take inspiration from the poem, get your creative juices flowing/rushing/whooshing and tell me about other accidents that inanimate objects might have.
Rachel
Teething problems
Ok so it was to be expected, or dreaded. We did have some teensy teething problems, when The Laundry hit super technology and started our e-commerce site.
Should be all whizzy and carefree this week, but it got me thinking about some tooth nasties.
So I’ve wapped teething problems into the search engine and guess what comes [...]
Web Slights
With the official launch of our new website at 4pm on Tuesday the 30th September, what an historic day! I thought I’d treat you to the history of websites. Whoopa.
There is some debate about the first ever website, some say Al Gore claimed to invent the www, others say that’s hear say – some people [...]
Belated BBQs
Earlier this week, the BioRegional Charcoal Company launched its new, standalone, consumer-friendly website - www.bioregionalhomegrown.co.uk - where customers can find out more about the products, the producer network (including producer map) and how buying BioRegional HomeGrown products helps UK woodlands and biodiversity.
Harry’s BBQ tip- What not to grill.
Have your cake and eat it
Although I shouldn’t be alluding to the darker nights and the bite that seems to be encroaching on our summer breeze, this time of year makes me think I want to do more baking. So I thought I’d gather a few simple recipes for autumn sweetness from our Luscious Launderers. Not being someone who likes [...]
Maths problem
After being assured that I was more likely to get struck by lightening, I won the lottery on Saturday. Well, I won £10, at least.
It got me thinking about the likelihood of things.
In probability theory the birthday problem, or birthday paradox
Cardies and Cosby
I’ve promised my boyfriend after two months of grumbling, stumbling, grimaces that I will no longer be really grumpy on a Monday morning, so it came as a blow when two minutes out of the door we started having an argument about whether or not cardigans are really only for girls.
Raise your hands and step away from the hedgehog
I know this might be old news but did you hear about the New Zealand man who was with assaulting a boy - with a hedgehog.
Score Blimey
Well done Steph for a completely bonkers blog last week, I loved it.
This week I’ve been thinking about scores to films. I pondered to my friend that:
There are no films with good soundtracks any more, my number one favourite is Back to the Future, deeer deeeer deeeer, di di di di di der, (hold on, [...]
Easter Information
This week guest stars Helen, an ex-Laundrette who emailed us some interesting facts about Easter.
This year is the earliest western Easter any of us will ever see for the rest of our lives! Only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early, and none of us have ever, or will ever, [...]
Freebies
I saw my friend last night and he was showing off his freebie from London Fashion Week…it included L’Oreal make you hair sleek stuff, L’Oreal nude lipstick, a L’Oreal lip gloss (the one with the ‘heart’ shaped applicator, I think it’s endorsed by Scarlet Johansson) and a Penelope Cruz make up set. Wow, what a [...]
Making a fortune
I can see a blue shape, I can see your future and it will be filled with other people’s dirty Laundry.
Thanks to Dominic for the pic which is on our flikr account to the right (scroooll), reminding us that he is not a recycling psychic.
My great grandmother Emma French was a romany gypsy, and she [...]
Nag nag nag
We don’t like to nag you at the Laundry; we prefer gentle persuasion by making recycling cheap, easy, fun, good, clean and other one syllable words.
We do like the Nag.
The tale of disgusting woe
Little time, The Laundry, very ill
The steam from my Lemsip clouds the glasses of my mind
Tissues, tissues, said Amanda
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