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 [...]
Category > Arts & entertainment
Palindromes
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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.
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, [...]
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…
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
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 [...]
Blind Romance
Have you ever had a really terrible blind date? You’ve trusted your friend’s opinion and ended up with someone whose main area of interest is carp fishing (no offence to any recycling anglers out there). Well, I know I have. My most memorable being the person I met on a bus - [...]
Swap Shop
BioRegional (the Laundry’s mummy) is an environmental charity. I sit opposite one of the founders – my desk buddy Pooran Desai (OBE!). Two weeks ago I gave him a tin of spam. Last week he gave me a free ticket to go and see Live Earth in a box seat right at the centre line [...]
What’s an Octopig?
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Cousin Gertude and the lesser known hot spots
My estranged cousin Gertrude is visiting me in London this weekend, she’s never been to our fair capital before and I’m run amok…
[this actually means: ‘(among members of certain Southeast Asian cultures) a psychic disturbance characterized by depression followed by a manic urge to murder’ and I don’t actually mean it like that, but hey, [...]
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