Mr Poubelle is not one of the famous characters of Mr Men and Little Misses who I blogged about last time. No, Eugene Poubelle is the French king of the Chiffoniers (rag-and-bone men). At the end of the 19th century and the industrial revolution this man decided to set up a segregating system for our [...]
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Why do they queue at Waterloo?
So, this morning from my cosy seat on the no. 68 bus I noticed a strange phenomena outside waterloo station. People standing in lines for buses as they waited for them to arrive and then boarding in an extremely orderly fashion. I started peering around, trying to look for some sort of bus-stop marshal or [...]
What’s the craic?!
Only seems 5 minutes ago that the world cup finished but the new football season is already underway. Thus it’s time to find your team shirt and get down the pub to watch the games over drinks and have a good shout at the screen. I missed the first weekend of games but sure I [...]
Money Money Money- It’s Quiz Time
Makes the world go round, right? We love to loathe it, but for most of us money plays a significant part in how we experience the world. Not just how much we have, but how we think about it and how we spend it.
Florence and me were having a chat here in the office about [...]
i have a dream….
Is Martin Luther King Jnr the first thing that comes to mind when you hear those words?! Me too. But dreams come up in song lyrics all the time. People have always liked to write about dreams in poems and music e.g A Midsummer nights dream the play by Shakespeare. A dream being an aspiration [...]
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in life it’s that….
At the weekend I visited my sister up in Lincoln. We drove up and it was a bloomin nightmare. That’s the comeuppance you get for a) living in south London meaning an hour long struggle awaits you in any direction other than Brighton before you hit a motorway and b) not taking the eco option [...]
A riddle for you
My favourite when I was young was ‘What’s black and white and red all over?’
‘A newspaper!’ Hahahahahaha. Trully magic the first time you get how to play with words.
Here’s a slightly more challenging riddle for you guys today.
‘You’re in a place called Jack’s world.There is a mirror but no reflection. There is cheese but not [...]
He’s not my type
So opposites attract they say. They might also like to add that those with different personality types might find it rather difficult to communicate with each other. After years of trying to second guess why people didn’t act the same as me or me the same as other people I know it’s been a bit [...]
What really does happen to your plastic?!
A few weeks back Charlotte and Florence went to see what actually happens at a plastics recycling plant and how your plastic bottles get recycled. It was very interesting indeed and here you can see some photos of the different stages…
In the UK at the moment we are only capturing about 39% of our plastic bottle [...]
At least the sun is shining
So after our raving world cup fever got splatted last weekend, who are you hedging your bets on winning now? It’s funny, I love to watch a match when it’s your national team playing but I get sooo stressed it almost becomes painful. Like waiting for the terror to strike in a scary movie- the [...]
Summer plan!?
Chapeau! As we would say in French! Bravo! Well done England! Let’s see what happens on Sunday.
Hope your team won’t get the flight return ticket as soon as the French team…
It’s so cool to spend a summer in London with all these events such as the World Cup, Wimbledon…and music [...]
Rule Britannia…
Come on England!
Ok who’s been following the world cup?!! I’m looking forward to the next England game tomorrow and hoping that it will go better than the first one! (If by some chance you didn’t hear what happened, our goalie made a big blunder, failing to make a very easy save and letting the ball [...]
The great milk confusion
So, did Carnation just feed some milk into the rain cycle to come up with their ‘evaporated’ and ‘condensed’ milk products? Hmm. No it appears the similarities drawn end here. I tried to remember something about heating up liquids in science class and apply it to this situation and these words in a conversation in [...]
Treasure Hunt
Picking up from Charlotte’s fabulous ele-spotting update in last week’s Laundry Blog, I thought I might write this week’s about other London treasures and perhaps ask my dear Laundry folk for their very own summer time suggestions. Not like we’re trying to be timeout or one of those ’secret London’ facebook groups or anything, BUT [...]
Stampede!
Has anyone noticed any elephants around London lately?! No I’m not hallucinating or going crazy! I really did see one yesterday in Notting Hill…. It was small and white with writing all over it like an extract from a book.
There are 260 around the city but a large group of them are sitting on display [...]
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