Earlier this week, the BioRegional Charcoal Company launched its new, standalone, consumer-friendly website - www.bioregionalhomegrown.co.uk - where customers can find out more about the products, the producer network (including producer map) and how buying BioRegional HomeGrown products helps UK woodlands and biodiversity.
Harry’s BBQ tip- What not to grill.
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Belated BBQs
Have your cake and eat it
Although I shouldn’t be alluding to the darker nights and the bite that seems to be encroaching on our summer breeze, this time of year makes me think I want to do more baking. So I thought I’d gather a few simple recipes for autumn sweetness from our Luscious Launderers. Not being someone who likes [...]
Lucky Laundry Lovers’ Dazzling Green Credentials
Did you know that by separating your recycling before we pick it up means we are able to guarantee that 100% of what you put out to recycle is actually recycled? Well it is, and for every tonne of 100% recycled office paper produced, we save 17 trees from being chopped down. Although superficially it [...]
Rain
Our courier organiser Rosy has told me that all of September is going to be wet, wet, wet so to get you in the mood here are some traditional Japanese poems about rain.
Bank holiday rail replacement woe
I told my dad I could be in Northampton, or more accurately, somewhere near-ish to Northampton at 11 in the morning on Saturday. I agreed to this when I was in a slight merry mood on Friday night. When I got up at 8 on Saturday feeling a little delicate, I discovered that none of [...]
Holiday romance…
I’m sure Rachel will be mightily disappointed to be missing out on this most gossipy of emails, but she is right this minute having her own very romantic holiday with her much immortalised man. So, with lots of people in the office coming and going from holidays, we got ourselves thinking about r o m [...]
Maths problem
After being assured that I was more likely to get struck by lightening, I won the lottery on Saturday. Well, I won £10, at least.
It got me thinking about the likelihood of things.
In probability theory the birthday problem, or birthday paradox
Cardies and Cosby
I’ve promised my boyfriend after two months of grumbling, stumbling, grimaces that I will no longer be really grumpy on a Monday morning, so it came as a blow when two minutes out of the door we started having an argument about whether or not cardigans are really only for girls.
Ownsome lonesome
This week has mostly been a lonely time for working at The Laundry, at least one of us has been away the whole time. So today I thought I’d write about games to play by oneself . (Not that I would be playing games at work. Or that I would have time to with the [...]
Interview with a laundrette…
To get to know our Rachel and Harry a bit better we thought this week we’d quiz ourselves on some of life’s important quandaries…
Build-a-team
We are having our BioRegional (that’s the charity that The Laundry is a part of) staff day out this Monday. We are going are going on a nature walk by the Thames, which sounds quite exciting- bit worried by mention of ‘waders’s- apparently it’s when the tide is out so we can see all sorts [...]
I love the back of your hand
This week is all about the best compliments, so please excuse the back handed compliment above. Cymbal please, bud dum tschhhhh.
Jo told me over lunch that Men’s Health has done a survey to find out the top 10 compliments that their readers love to hear. According to science (yes science can be sociological) 90% of [...]
Idle hands do the devil’s work
We are a creative bunch; must be all the rainy days, but hobbies are a curious pursuit. I don’t mean things like yoga or book-club, but fiddly pernickety things like model-making, building ships in bottles and creating tens of metres of track for teeny-weeny trains.
Raise your hands and step away from the hedgehog
I know this might be old news but did you hear about the New Zealand man who was with assaulting a boy - with a hedgehog.
The Sound of Music
Just a quickie from me today. (Phew! I hear you cry). I’m thinking sounds, I’m thinking radio plays and imaginative producers, I’m feeling inspired by a conversation about apples…One of our colleagues here at BioRegional was involved in a live audience recording of apple-crunching at the Barbican. This sound then became part of a tune [...]
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