New to the Laundry team, I have been settling in and learning the ropes over the last couple of weeks. It has been a busy time doing the commute into London and I have also been travelling to visit friends each weekend since I started; sometimes everything happens at once!
One of my friends just got [...]
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Spring has sprung
Spring apparently takes 8 weeks to travel up the country from Land’s End in the south to John O’Groates in the north. Apparently that equates to it traveling at something like (DISCLAIMER- this is purely hearsay.. and not based on any thorough research, or calculations for that matter, Hmm, how long IS Britain?!) 3 1/2 [...]
Flo’s funny week and which Mr Men or Little Miss are you?
There is no routine for Florence these days because every day is full of plenty of surprises or funny things, on top of the weather’s caprices of course…
Ladies (perhaps men too?), do you remember, have you ever lost a heel on a London tube’s escalator and then had fun with the passers by as they [...]
Strange commutes
There is a helicopter that seems to land above The Laundry’s office every now and then. It’s sooooo loud, but you think Helicopter in the city and you think emergency organ drop off, or mountain rescue mission, or something really worthy so its no bother. Then Flo and I got to thinking- where is the [...]
Laundry and other soapy tales…
People are often confused by our name.
This has ranged in extremity from the odd phone call about dirty linen, to my sister thinking that I worked in an eco-laundrette, to our sales pitch involving the preamble- “No! You do need to speak to us, honest… it’s not clothes.. it’s PAPER! Like a paper Laundry… WE [...]
Oh no I burned my coat
After last week’s blog about THE WORST SOUND IN THE WORLD I thought I might tell you I have now, in a similar vein, discovered the worst smell.
It’s the smell of my burning coat.
It smells like when you accidentally burn your hair, or your nails. Hmm hair burning, why do I know so clearly the [...]
The worst sound in the world
I’ve just bought some headphones with an extra long cable bit so that I can plug into my computer ( extra long cable is to fix the prob of old skool computer on the desk under the table… in the past trying to listen to music has been conditional on my happiness of rubbing nose [...]
The art of paper
Although we love it that you send your dirty, used paper to The Laundry to get cleaned up, we have been looking at things that other people do with their paper.
First off, one of our customers Mumford Fine Art of Soho is holding an exhibition of a whole load of art works all created on, [...]
The best building award goes to…
A couple of weekends ago I was coming into central London on the train and got a really good look at the Gherkin building all shining in the sun. When I first lived in London it was getting built and it seemed to sit right at the bottom of our high street in its increasing [...]
Fake or real?
Just looking out of our windows as I write this and I have the residue of our low key, low budget, Christmas shindig FAKE snow on the windows with a backdrop of the biggest fattest REAL snowflakes ever. I mean, boy was it fun squirting that fake snow on the windows. I mean really really [...]
Fridge Etiquette
Sharing Fridges with people is quite an intimate interaction. At The Laundry’s old offices the upper echelons of the fridge were a treacherous place dogged by half full jars of leftovers brought in by staff, many open soya milk cartons (REALLY bad taste when it’s gone off, that soya) and plenty of hummus for mass [...]
Our very own French connection
Florence Le Brun, or Flozza/ Flo as we are currently trying to nickname her, is the newest recruit to team Laundry. She is fabbo. A frenchy with attitude and style and passion and a go get em approach to sales, which us exactly what we need.
A few lucky customers might have had the pleasure as [...]
Pat, pap, splat
Here we are in the new Laundry HQ and I’ve been out roaming, exploring our territory, scoping the place out and getting some fresh air in between the showers. There’s a square behind Leather Lane market, away from the diamonds and past the stalls. I don’t know what it’s called yet, I’ll check tomorrow, but [...]
Show and Tell and classifying my fruit
I got this strange fruit in my veg box last week which looks a bit like a tomato and a bit like a chinese lantern fruit but much larger and without any of the cool leaf-skelaton casing..
Has anyone any ideas? I would send a picture but lacking the wherewithall… lead/photo transmitting airwaves as I’m writing [...]
Look into my crystal ball
Glass House: The Good Mother dvd
Apparently the whole practice of reading someone’s future from a crystal ball could stem right back to the megalithic peoples of ancient Britain. That’s pretty old stuff. They were all about rocks and stone structures, and this thinking that it all goes back to them comes from an observation [...]
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