Would you rather be european or mucus?

This week I have been thinking about nicknames, at university I knew people from Stephenson hall (awful place in Sheffield, for wanna-be-at-a-redbrick people, football, lager, shouting - sorry people who this applies to):

Pies (eats lots of)

Big Tom

Little Tom (self explanatory)

Stove (because he stole one on the first night)

Chewy (from Chu bacca)

Mumra (thunder cats duvet cover)

Camp Ben (skinny knees)

Stinio

Sexy Dan (true)

SG

the Silver Fox

PA (Paul-Andre, hon hon hon, that was supposed to be a French chuckle)

All fine and good.

Do you know what my nickname was? 

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This week we have mostly been thinking about school trips, having had a team building trip to The Sticks (that place just past the leafy, outer London suburbs) with our parent charity BioRegional. Among other things we faced fears of heights with a spot of abseiling, got lost in the woods trying to orienteer our way to the pub and identified vegetables that bear vague resemblances to our characters (mines a Salsify- should you be wondering greatly).

Anyway… It got us Launderettes reminiscing about trips of yesteryear.. So, me and Helen have drudged our memories for some of the antics we got up to as little uns:

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This week I have been reminded of a story my friend told me about a friend of hers who went into an audition and misread the script and said:

“I’m gonna be big, I’m gonna be the best, I’m gonna be A-One Pasino”,

NEXT,

It should have been, Al Paccino.

Comedy mishearings are the best. (more…)

For your delectation we have compiled with these inspired by Jess’s:

An embarrassment of Mayors

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The hot topic of conversation this week at Laundry HQ has been celebrity spotting, after I had an exciting brush with celebrity when I was in A&E on Monday night (don’t worry I’m fine, I was accompanying a friend after a not-very-nice affair, but he’s doing better now). Hmmm I thought that man looks a lot like Pierce Brosnan, but what would he be doing in Tooting? But no, it was James Bond himself, in St George’s A&E! And I was in sniffing distance of him!

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It’s snowing - hooray - well I hope it is as I am writing this from sunny (but cold) Wednesday. (update: hurrah it is snowing. Well hurrah because it looks pretty, boo because it means we all spent far too long getting to work today and The Laundry vans are battling the elements picking up bags!)

I’ve collected some tips for you for lunchtime snowman building activity

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Well no, not really. But we would really really like one of these:

(full story and picture can be found here)