Comments for The Laundry http://blog.thelaundry.biz Missives from the Wallington Tower Fantasy Collective Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:33:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 Comment on Teething problems by Harriet http://blog.thelaundry.biz/2008/10/teething-problems/#comment-48450 Harriet Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:30:41 +0000 http://blog.thelaundry.biz/?p=426#comment-48450 OH MY GOD! That is sooo painful just to read about it! Eeeek, it makes me feel as if nails are being dragged down a blackboard or as if I've got cotton wool between my teeth. Matt, you poor fella. You should take up safer sports where compulsory head-gear is provided. Like F1 racing... OH MY GOD! That is sooo painful just to read about it! Eeeek, it makes me feel as if nails are being dragged down a blackboard or as if I’ve got cotton wool between my teeth. Matt, you poor fella. You should take up safer sports where compulsory head-gear is provided. Like F1 racing…

]]> Comment on Teething problems by Matt from MatchWork http://blog.thelaundry.biz/2008/10/teething-problems/#comment-48436 Matt from MatchWork Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:06:30 +0000 http://blog.thelaundry.biz/?p=426#comment-48436 Argh teething problems. When I was 14 I used to play cricket at the local club. One balmy summer evening we decided to play football after training ("nets" for crickety folk), and I volunteered to go in goal. Rather than jumpers for goalposts (isn't it? marvellous. It would have been), we dragged over some empty beer barrels from outside the clubhouse... can you see where this is going? I remember it so clearly... Peter Edge was through on goal, he dropped a shoulder and shaped to shoot. I dived (the wrong way), he scored, and I ended up headlong into beer barrel post... seemingly attempting to take a bite out of the clanging lager vessel. Ouch. Two front teeth shattered. Bare nerves, hanging down, remained. Trip to dentist next day, multiple stabbings with a needle couldn't numb the sensation... bring on the cold metal of the tweezers to grasp and yank out the nerves. The M&S of the NHS... this isn't just pain, this is the white noise of pain. So they drilled and capped and crowned and filled and cemented. The teeth would fall out periodically for the next 15 years, until one of them would not stick no more. The remaining root had shattered you see, and I was a contender for the youngest user of Polygrip. One final option... an implant for my gappy grin. So they drilled deeper and further and longer than ever before into my skull and my bank account. A bill of £2500 followed, oh vanity! The results are great. The tooth finally ain't for shifting. I've never played in goal since, and I can't see a beer barrel without shuddering. I was never as good mates with Peter Edge as before. I could say he set my teeth on Edge, but that would be tenuous. Argh teething problems. When I was 14 I used to play cricket at the local club. One balmy summer evening we decided to play football after training (”nets” for crickety folk), and I volunteered to go in goal. Rather than jumpers for goalposts (isn’t it? marvellous. It would have been), we dragged over some empty beer barrels from outside the clubhouse… can you see where this is going?

I remember it so clearly… Peter Edge was through on goal, he dropped a shoulder and shaped to shoot. I dived (the wrong way), he scored, and I ended up headlong into beer barrel post… seemingly attempting to take a bite out of the clanging lager vessel.

Ouch. Two front teeth shattered. Bare nerves, hanging down, remained. Trip to dentist next day, multiple stabbings with a needle couldn’t numb the sensation… bring on the cold metal of the tweezers to grasp and yank out the nerves. The M&S of the NHS… this isn’t just pain, this is the white noise of pain.

So they drilled and capped and crowned and filled and cemented. The teeth would fall out periodically for the next 15 years, until one of them would not stick no more. The remaining root had shattered you see, and I was a contender for the youngest user of Polygrip. One final option… an implant for my gappy grin. So they drilled deeper and further and longer than ever before into my skull and my bank account. A bill of £2500 followed, oh vanity!

The results are great. The tooth finally ain’t for shifting.

I’ve never played in goal since, and I can’t see a beer barrel without shuddering. I was never as good mates with Peter Edge as before. I could say he set my teeth on Edge, but that would be tenuous.

]]> Comment on Tempting Times by Lauren http://blog.thelaundry.biz/2008/11/tempting-times/#comment-48242 Lauren Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:03:57 +0000 http://blog.thelaundry.biz/?p=458#comment-48242 Knowing your mum, as I do, I had such a great visual after reading that blog!! Knowing your mum, as I do, I had such a great visual after reading that blog!!

]]> Comment on Palindromes by Harriet http://blog.thelaundry.biz/2008/11/453/#comment-47750 Harriet Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:10:35 +0000 http://blog.thelaundry.biz/?p=453#comment-47750 love it steve! marvelous and it even seems to make sense! love it steve! marvelous and it even seems to make sense!

]]> Comment on Palindromes by Steve http://blog.thelaundry.biz/2008/11/453/#comment-47749 Steve Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:09:00 +0000 http://blog.thelaundry.biz/?p=453#comment-47749 An oldie: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama! An oldie:
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!

]]> Comment on Reasons to be cheerful by philippa http://blog.thelaundry.biz/2008/11/reasons-to-be-cheerful/#comment-47638 philippa Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:44:34 +0000 http://blog.thelaundry.biz/?p=441#comment-47638 it's my birthday on the 24th of february, it's not overly long after christmas, which is always good as what santa doesn't bring me for christmas, i ask for, for my birthday. still no fisher price a la carte kitchen though, and i've been asking for 20 years. hurmph. also, had a great halloween party and made my own skeleton outfit which i painted myself :) i danced in a bad 80's way to beyonce and kylie with my friends dressed as marie-antoinette, the joker, mary-kate and ashley olson (not hard, they were twins to start with), count dracular, a witch, freddy kruger and the death of financial ruin or soemthing, who left his copy of the FT on the bus... giggle. much fun. it’s my birthday on the 24th of february, it’s not overly long after christmas, which is always good as what santa doesn’t bring me for christmas, i ask for, for my birthday. still no fisher price a la carte kitchen though, and i’ve been asking for 20 years. hurmph.

also, had a great halloween party and made my own skeleton outfit which i painted myself :) i danced in a bad 80’s way to beyonce and kylie with my friends dressed as marie-antoinette, the joker, mary-kate and ashley olson (not hard, they were twins to start with), count dracular, a witch, freddy kruger and the death of financial ruin or soemthing, who left his copy of the FT on the bus… giggle. much fun.

]]> Comment on Reasons to be cheerful by Steph from The Laundry http://blog.thelaundry.biz/2008/11/reasons-to-be-cheerful/#comment-47636 Steph from The Laundry Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:44:07 +0000 http://blog.thelaundry.biz/?p=441#comment-47636 My folks always celebrate Burns Night in January. On 25th January they religiously join their mates in drinking loads of scotch and eating haggis. I think there is dancing and grrrowling in a burly eightteenth century Scottish manner. (In my mind this sounds like a pirate) What japes, ho! My folks always celebrate Burns Night in January. On 25th January they religiously join their mates in drinking loads of scotch and eating haggis. I think there is dancing and grrrowling in a burly eightteenth century Scottish manner. (In my mind this sounds like a pirate)

What japes, ho!

]]> Comment on Reasons to be cheerful by Rachel from The Laundry http://blog.thelaundry.biz/2008/11/reasons-to-be-cheerful/#comment-47613 Rachel from The Laundry Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:15:10 +0000 http://blog.thelaundry.biz/?p=441#comment-47613 We have a tradition in my house of having a Christmas eve party, it started because my grandparents got married on Christmas eve. We have a buffet for all the neighbours, listen to carols, drink lost of wine and generally be merry, sometimes I think it's more exiciting than Christmas itself, then I say don't be silly, Father Christmas is coming. oo highly recommended book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Father-Christmas-Truth-Gregoire-Solotareff/dp/0333674073 Synopsis How can you spot a fake Father Christmas? Why was Father Christmas unhappy as a child? What do artichokes have to do with Father Christmas? These are some of the questions answered in this humorous reference book, which seeks to be a comprehensive guide to the man in red. We have a tradition in my house of having a Christmas eve party, it started because my grandparents got married on Christmas eve. We have a buffet for all the neighbours, listen to carols, drink lost of wine and generally be merry, sometimes I think it’s more exiciting than Christmas itself, then I say don’t be silly, Father Christmas is coming.

oo highly recommended book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Father-Christmas-Truth-Gregoire-Solotareff/dp/0333674073

Synopsis
How can you spot a fake Father Christmas? Why was Father Christmas unhappy as a child? What do artichokes have to do with Father Christmas? These are some of the questions answered in this humorous reference book, which seeks to be a comprehensive guide to the man in red.

]]> Comment on Unaware (and unprepared) by Rachel from the Laundry http://blog.thelaundry.biz/2008/10/unaware-and-unprepared/#comment-47498 Rachel from the Laundry Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:11:56 +0000 http://blog.thelaundry.biz/?p=437#comment-47498 I LOVE YOUR POEM _ BEST COMMENT FOR AGES - what a Laundry gem, honourary badge of honour coming your way, er sort of telepathically - Matt The Laundrover I LOVE YOUR POEM _ BEST COMMENT FOR AGES - what a Laundry gem, honourary badge of honour coming your way, er sort of telepathically - Matt The Laundrover

]]> Comment on Unaware (and unprepared) by Matt from MatchWork http://blog.thelaundry.biz/2008/10/unaware-and-unprepared/#comment-47497 Matt from MatchWork Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:46:02 +0000 http://blog.thelaundry.biz/?p=437#comment-47497 A man at work Checking his email Flabbergasted at the lack of effort Put into this week's blog Fell off his chair Slightly bending an unsuspecting Buff foolscap folder A man at work

Checking his email

Flabbergasted at the lack of effort

Put into this week’s blog

Fell off his chair

Slightly bending an unsuspecting

Buff foolscap folder

]]> Comment on Teething problems by Matt from MatchWork http://blog.thelaundry.biz/2008/10/teething-problems/#comment-47496 Matt from MatchWork Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:40:13 +0000 http://blog.thelaundry.biz/?p=426#comment-47496 I'd like to think it a coincidence that the Teething Problems blog post is the only one completely out of line with the rest on the main blog page :o) I’d like to think it a coincidence that the Teething Problems blog post is the only one completely out of line with the rest on the main blog page :o)

]]> Comment on Magpie Magic by Harriet http://blog.thelaundry.biz/2008/10/magpie-magic/#comment-47058 Harriet Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:28:33 +0000 http://blog.thelaundry.biz/?p=427#comment-47058 What excellent magpie stories you treat us with this Friday afternoon! Thank you Guy. What excellent magpie stories you treat us with this Friday afternoon! Thank you Guy.

]]> Comment on Magpie Magic by Guy Longhorn http://blog.thelaundry.biz/2008/10/magpie-magic/#comment-47057 Guy Longhorn Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:22:09 +0000 http://blog.thelaundry.biz/?p=427#comment-47057 My Middlesbrough born wife shouts "Good morning Mr General" at single magpies (after years of indoctrination I find myself muttering it too) - an avian equivalent of crossing yourself to guard against evil apparently. However, should two or more cross her path she greets them jauntily in the sure and certain belief that the rest of the day will be full of sunshine, Tuncay Sanli hat-tricks and lottery wins. As her mother would say, "Eeeeeeeeh". If that isn't enough, I once spent a couple of hours in the company of former Magpie presenter Tommy Boyd, in the buffet car of a train to Portsmouth. He'd been to the press launch of the Premier League and was drinking alone, it seemed rude not to join him. Lovely bloke. My Middlesbrough born wife shouts “Good morning Mr General” at single magpies (after years of indoctrination I find myself muttering it too) - an avian equivalent of crossing yourself to guard against evil apparently. However, should two or more cross her path she greets them jauntily in the sure and certain belief that the rest of the day will be full of sunshine, Tuncay Sanli hat-tricks and lottery wins. As her mother would say, “Eeeeeeeeh”.
If that isn’t enough, I once spent a couple of hours in the company of former Magpie presenter Tommy Boyd, in the buffet car of a train to Portsmouth. He’d been to the press launch of the Premier League and was drinking alone, it seemed rude not to join him. Lovely bloke.

]]> Comment on Have your cake and eat it by Christabel (the intern) http://blog.thelaundry.biz/2008/09/have-your-cake-and-eat-it/#comment-46812 Christabel (the intern) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:13:54 +0000 http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2008/09/have-your-cake-and-eat-it#comment-46812 Yay! I am so glad you liked it. Yay! I am so glad you liked it.

]]> Comment on Have your cake and eat it by Sophia http://blog.thelaundry.biz/2008/09/have-your-cake-and-eat-it/#comment-46807 Sophia Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:32:39 +0000 http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2008/09/have-your-cake-and-eat-it#comment-46807 I just wanted to say I made the above fridge cake last weekend and by jove it was good! And we ate enough to feel suitably sick and bloated but it's one of those deliciously yummy things that makes you want to lick the bowl anyway (there was a fight over it, which incidentally, i lost...) So just wanted to say a big thank you for a terribly bad but deliciously indulgent cake! :-) Sophia I just wanted to say I made the above fridge cake last weekend and by jove it was good! And we ate enough to feel suitably sick and bloated but it’s one of those deliciously yummy things that makes you want to lick the bowl anyway (there was a fight over it, which incidentally, i lost…)
So just wanted to say a big thank you for a terribly bad but deliciously indulgent cake! :-)
Sophia

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