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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Cousin Gertude and the lesser known hot spots
Poems and Promos
At the Laundry we love you so we are featuring some of you fab customers and your fab businesses this week.
Firstly April’s (oops – better late than never) recycling hero of the month - Toast TV, our stupendo 1000th customer. Toast is an exciting bunch of commercial film producers. If you are a telly addict like me (no no I have lots of other outside interests too) – you might have come across the work of a “Toaster”; like the Innocent Drinks tv ad – yum.
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 [...]
Laundrebrity gossip roundup
Get this week’s hottest laundrebrity news in this week’s edition of sHeat Magazine, the paper lovers weekly (just in case – as in a sheet of paper and heat magazine – Tom reckons you won’t get it, but it does sound rather like a swear word, eh?). Our comprehensive (and cool) package of sneaky photos, [...]
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 [...]
One lump or two?
I Like coffee! I like tea! I like the java jive and it likes me! Coffee and tea! and the java and me! A cup- a cup- a cup-a cup- a cuppaah! Yeah!
Indeed.
As quoted by my Muva circa 1989 in the kitchen, and made immemorial by The Ink [...]
Would you rather be european or mucus?
This week I have been thinking about nicknames, at university I knew people from Stephenson hall (awful place in Sheffield, for wanna-be-at-a-redbrick people, football, lager, shouting - sorry people who this applies to):
Pies (eats lots of)
Big Tom
Little Tom (self explanatory)
Stove (because he stole one on the first night)
Chewy (from Chu bacca)
Mumra (thunder cats duvet cover)
Camp [...]
School trip naughtiness, tell us your stories
This week we have mostly been thinking about school trips, having had a team building trip to The Sticks (that place just past the leafy, outer London suburbs) with our parent charity BioRegional. Among other things we faced fears of heights with a spot of abseiling, got lost in the woods [...]
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 [...]
A short one about some people with shortcomings (no not like that, naughty)
This week we have been talking about inappropriate crushes - some of them involve politicians and are too controversial to mention….
Mad Dad, Bad Mum
I know we have been banging on about Dad’s for some time now - but they are such a fruitful subject. We got loads of replies - I am featuring my fabvourite from Serena Beckett who seems to have the best/maddest Dad EVER. Here are her stories…
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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