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.
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Nag nag 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
Animal Biscuits
If you could be any animal, which animal would you be? Harriet asked me over lunch today…I couldn’t decide so I googled it (first port of call for any difficult question…right?) but all I found was a rubbish website which told me I was a tiger. No reason, no justification, just pop your name in [...]
A bad day for a dog
This week we’re still thinking about tradition and country ways. My friend and ex-laundry manager Jess showed me this passage from “Discovering the Folklore of Plants by Margaret Baker:
“The mandrake has an ancient reputation as “Devil’s apples”.
An ode to Autumn
Autumn leaves are on the ground like a rainbow upsidedown.
Whoop. This week I have had an autumn-tastic time. Rambles past castles, tea, sheep worrying, tea, leave crunching (competitive), tea, watching the Empire Strikes Back (does this count, I was drinking tea at the time), hot scones, roasts, tea, sparklers, tea*.
Witch Craft
We’ve gone to town this week; Harry has been busy doing some illustrator fiddling and lookee here. We have created a poster that explains exactly how the Laundry works for you to print off and stick in a clever place, maybe behind the reception desk, maybe by the Laundry bin*, the work notice board [...]
Bossiness and basics
Before we get onto the fun stuff, just to let you know, Bob has been on holiday for two weeks. So I have been going out with Bob to learn the route and since I phoned him up to say, Bob where shall I meet you today and he chortled, I’m at Gatwick, ho ho [...]
That’s, like, so deep
On this day…
In 1982 the Mary Rose was recovered from the deep. I don’t remember that but, here is one person’s recollection
“I was 10. Our teacher made us sit through it on TV for the whole day. It was boring beyond belief” – thanks Dominic.
On trend
Going up
• Hot chocolate for breakfast
• My green t-shirt (not literally)
• Not-watching-television-so-you-don’t-accidentally-see-a-promo-for-the-last-serires-of-the-Sopranoes-the-greatest-television-series-in-history-thereby-ruining-the-plot-which-you-don’t-want-because-you-are-trying-to-start-from-the-beginning-watching-them-in-order-from-your-unnamed-postal-DVD-service
• Pelicans
• Laundry blue
Going down
• Unnamed rail enquiry services
• Eating solids for breakfast
• Parrots
• Thinking-it’s-ok-to-sing-in-the-street-while-alone-because-it’s-London-and-anonymous-and-everyone-will-just-think-you-are-a-loony-and-ignore-you-and-you’re-fine-with-that
• My blue T-shirt
• Laundry white
Con on
Remember a while back when I tired to explain the meaning of everything – phew, well I thought I’d get some professional help in by signing up to a 10 week philosophy course. Stretch my philosophical muscles.
Pet names
No not talking darling, treacle or honeybun. Actual pet names, we’ve decided they come in three categories. Anthropomorphic, descriptive and maverick.
Rachel’s Double Cheat
Ok so it happens to us all, writers block (well not all of us - those who have to write on demand). I’ve double cheated you by first making you click on to the blog page and now you have to read this. The good news is that instead of writing a blog entry about [...]
Pheremones
Whoa, blimey, who knew that Laundry customers felt so strongly about scones?? And Patrick, the angry Irish barman – funny, but problemo when it comes to Guinness?? Guinness makes me feel a bit irony, not sarcastic, I mean full of iron, have only drank it on seriously peculiar occasions.
So what else have we been talking [...]
Which comes first and we ain’t talking chicken and eggs
Which comes first?
On a scone: cream or jam?
In a cup: tea or milk?
In a shandy: beer or lemonade?
Genius
My name is Gemma and I am the newest member of the Laundry team, as of about 3 weeks ago in fact. I am settling in just fine and just thought I’d add a bit to the discussion that goes in these ere parts… So I was flicking through the TV channels last night, after [...]
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