A short one about some people with shortcomings (no not like that, naughty)
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007This week we have been talking about inappropriate crushes - some of them involve politicians and are too controversial to mention…. (more…)
Archive for January, 2007
Mad Dad, Bad Mum
Thursday, January 25th, 2007I 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…
The Laundry says Hullo!
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007Never again will people whisper in side alleys that The Laundry isn’t hip, for today we have a brave new web site complete with a blog. We’ll be posting regular updates on the service, recycling in London and other subjects that take our fancy, and look forward to having a natter in the comments section with our favourite people.
More coming soon…. (the suspense is hurting us too).
Why is throwing the javelin blindfolded like playing the banjo?
Thursday, January 18th, 2007As 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 all equally loud)..
Complex Systems (more interesting that it sounds)
Thursday, January 11th, 2007You know when you have a conversation and you can’t believe what you end up saying just to keep it going? I was stuck in a house this news years eve, when everyone was off to Tesco, having to stump up conversation with this guy who was designing a database to record every oil refinery and petrol station anywhere in the world ever in history. This information was going to be sold to big oil companies - so in total social oblivion, where we couldn’t have less in common and because I didn’t want to have a fracas in the holidays - I somehow ended up saying that in another life I would love to be a systems analyst!?!
New Year, New You (or how we are going to be better people this year)
Thursday, January 4th, 2007We got a great email about a Dad from Alice O’Connel:
My Da works in brand and package design but wants to be a writer, he’s been working on his novel for about a year now having been to many many creative writing courses. It’s a family mystery, as far as I can tell, he doesn’t talk about it a lot. He’s unable to read fiction now though, which is a shame as we used to trade books. He actually had a book of poems that he and his brother had written published in the 70’s in Dublin. It was a limited run and they all sold out, he swears to this day they weren’t all bought by his Ma. I read them a few years ago and they were all trippy hippy dippy nonsense, he admitted acid had been an important factor in their creative process.