Here at our colourful home of BedZed we’re getting a new kitchen fitted and, as I write, there are things going bump through the wall. This all got me thinking about slightly worrying kitchen discoveries: not that we made any here I’m sure, but those of us who’ve been students or lived in well-cheap accommodation [...]
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Quintessentially…
This weekend I went away to Nicole’s 40th birthday, she’s a lovely workmate, here at the charity. Also there was Jill, another work pal, who’s just moved here from the USA. I couldn’t think of a more quintessentially British experience for her than coming to a party in an Arts and Crafts style village hall [...]
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 [...]
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…
New Year’s Revolution
There weren’t very many of us in the office yesterday- seems lots of people were very clever and booked off the 2nd for generous recovery so we decided to head up the road to The Goat our local pub for some haute cuisine; plates of scampi, toasties, cheese and pickle sandwiches with ready salted crisp [...]
Proud produce
Lunch-club (this is where we take it in turns to cook or prep-up lunch for everyone in the office- can be really nice but when it’s your turn it gets a bit hectic when, for example, if the oven fails you whilst baking 30 potatoes) ended on a slightly posher note than is usual yesterday, [...]
The anarchic hand
While I was away having a low carbon adventure in Europe (I’ve decided never to fly again) my travel buddies told me about…..the anarchic hand. This condition is a brain injury related syndrome where one of your hands performs actions against your will. Here are some of my favourite examples
Changing names
Did anyone hear the story last week of a chap in New Zealand who said that if 100,000 people join his Facebook group, he will call his new born child Spiderpig? It turns out it was all a big scam, causing disappointment to thousands all over the world, and no doubt relief to his [...]
Are you experienced?
Rachel is away sunning herself in Hungary- she has taken an extravaganza train trip and so, dear Laundry readers, you are stuck with a little whitter from Harry, Gemma and Sam (Sam Smith that is- he shares his name with the respected pub-chain)
We have the very lovely volunteer Sam working for us at the moment, [...]
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 [...]
Picture perfect
Last week was about words, this week is only about pictures. Take a look at what we get up to behind the scenes here:
Hippy Harry…
When I was growing up most years (when it was on) we would go to Glastonbury. Ah so cool, soo cool. But, no!
Not when you’re growing up in Tring, the rainbow warrior t-shirt-down-to-your-knees look is not one celebrated by those (in same peer group) whose own style is comprised more of those classic common denominators: [...]
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 [...]
Rachel’s show and tell
Today we have a tour going round BedZED (the Laundry’s home) of extremely intelligent 10 year olds. They all look very earnest and slightly worried. I’ve been thinking about how serious everything seems when you are little and how all my earliest memories are based on very-serious-at-the-time-but-now-ridiculous-embarrassing-incidents.
Loony Lawsuits
Ed Morello inspired this week’s email as our comedy advisor, when he told me about this…
There was a story about a guy in the States who was diagnosed with multi personality disorder. He had 7 separate identities. 6 were upstanding citizens. The 7th was a violent alcoholic (well we all have those days!). The 6 [...]
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