Nag nag nag

We don’t like to nag you at the Laundry; we prefer gentle persuasion by making recycling cheap, easy, fun, good, clean and other one syllable words.

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Red sky at night shepherds’ delight (makes my think of pink angel’s delight desert). Red sky in the morning, sailors’ warning. What a beauty of a morning it was too- well time will tell us if today’s pink curdled clouds lead to torrential rain and storms or blue, blue skies till the evening draws in.

Superstition meshes quite well the warped laws of reason I had as a kid

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Once you get it you never forget. Learning in the first place, though, was one of those things as a kid I just couldn’t seem to master. The four-wheels afforded by stabilisers made sense- no leap of faith was required to keep the balance. And unless you hammered it over some rocky terrain (the veritable rally-course that was the road in the front of my house) there wasn’t any real danger of a grazed knee or anything like that. (more…)

Going up
• Hot chocolate for breakfast
• My green t-shirt (not literally)
• Not-watching-television-so-you-don’t-accidentally-see-a-promo-for-the-last-serires-of-the-Sopranoes-the-greatest-television-series-in-history-thereby-ruining-the-plot-which-you-don’t-want-because-you-are-trying-to-start-from-the-beginning-watching-them-in-order-from-your-unnamed-postal-DVD-service
• Pelicans
• Laundry blue

Going down
• Unnamed rail enquiry services
• Eating solids for breakfast
• Parrots
• Thinking-it’s-ok-to-sing-in-the-street-while-alone-because-it’s-London-and-anonymous-and-everyone-will-just-think-you-are-a-loony-and-ignore-you-and-you’re-fine-with-that
• My blue T-shirt
• Laundry white

Remember a while back when I tired to explain the meaning of everything – phew, well I thought I’d get some professional help in by signing up to a 10 week philosophy course.  Stretch my philosophical muscles.  (more…)

No not talking darling, treacle or honeybun.  Actual pet names, we’ve decided they come in three categories.  Anthropomorphic, descriptive and maverick. (more…)

Ok so it happens to us all, writers block (well not all of us - those who have to write on demand).  I’ve double cheated you by first making you click on to the blog page and now you have to read this.  The good news is that instead of writing a blog entry about people with writer’s block (see the Edinburgh fringe for examples of this get out clause) I’m going to treat you to some blog entries for our “big bin” customers that you haven’t seen before.  All penned by Helen and Harriet, not Rachel.  Enjoy!  SO it’s really more like a 8 for 1 deal.

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Have you ever had a really terrible blind date? You’ve trusted your friend’s opinion and ended up with someone whose main area of interest is carp fishing (no offence to any recycling anglers out there). Well, I know I have. My most memorable being the person I met on a bus - you know, wooed by the chance-meeting, ‘oh isn’t London such a romantic city’ sort of blindness; we couldn’t speak to each other as I didn’t speak Portuguese and he didn’t speak full stop. He also came up to about my elbow (I’m quite tall though - that’s not a dig at short people - just my sitting down on a bus warped judgement). Well, anyway, here’s your chance to set all those bad memories aside.

The Laundry has gone all romantic this week and we thought we would offer up our newest recruit to our lovely customer-base, for a date (not as a sacrifice). By hooking up with Samuel Smith, The Laundry Volunteer and soon-to-be environmental master’s student you will also get the chance for ultimate fame in a write-up in the Laundry email next week. So our lovely volunteer Sam….

Sam is reasonably new to London and so hasn’t got a huge number of friends here - somewhere around 4.5 he says. He recently joined an ultimate frisbee club to keep himself in shape and also likes to spend his evenings strumming guitars. We have put a little photo of him on the website so you can see him.

So do you feel like doing something a little different this Tuesday night? Do you have 4.5 friends in London, and wanna make it 5.5?

If you, or someone in your office are aged between 18-24 and looking for a date with someone who’s just so fresh and so clean this Tuesday, please send us an email to recycle@thelaundry.biz with your answers to some or all of Laundry Man Sam’s mini-interview questions (below) and a photo by Tuesday at Midday. You can also ask Sam any questions you like too!

We will pick the winner and let you know by 3pm all in good time for a not-too-naughty-as-its-a-school-night date where you shall meet for a drink at 8ish and then go on to the classy Le QuecumBar in Battersea for an open-mic night of gypsy swing and jazz.

So here goes: -

1. (Just to warm you up!) Which is your favourite- a) The Blue Bag, b) The Orange Bag or c) The Stickers?!

2. What’s your idea of a perfect day?

3. Which album do you own but sneakily stash at the bottom of your CD rack?

4. What’s the best music act you’ve ever seen?

5. (The classic work- interview put you in the hot-seat question) How would you describe yourself using just three words.

6. Where in the world would you most like to live?
With love from Harriet, Sam and Gemma at The Laundry xxx

Whoa, blimey, who knew that Laundry customers felt so strongly about scones?? And Patrick, the angry Irish barman – funny, but problemo when it comes to Guinness??  Guinness makes me feel a bit irony, not sarcastic, I mean full of iron, have only drank it on seriously peculiar occasions.

So what else have we been talking about this week?  ITV got in touch with us because they are making another series of Dating the Enemy.  They want a super environmentalist to go head to head with a super er how do you describe it?– a climate change denier to make “interesting” viewing.  So the post went on the intranet in the morning and come lunch time; everyone said – Rachel, why don’t YOU go for it?– most people immediately thought of me – WHY I ask you?

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Which comes first?

On a scone:  cream or jam?

In a cup: tea or milk?

In a shandy: beer or lemonade?

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This week we have been thinking about made up words.  Sometimes normal words just won’t do.  Here is our summary of made up words:

Quadpod - like a tripod but with four legs, so yes, maybe you could call it a stool, but it doesn’t sound as good.

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I’ve taken on a big subject this week – it’s a big week, it’s a year since I started working for Laundry this week – hooray a year of blue bag krazee times – ah the memories. So to celebrate I thought I would debate the nature of reality. (more…)

Get this week’s hottest laundrebrity news in this week’s edition of sHeat Magazine, the paper lovers weekly (just in case – as in a sheet of paper and heat magazine – Tom reckons you won’t get it, but it does sound rather like a swear word, eh?). Our comprehensive (and cool) package of sneaky photos, cheeky gossip, recycled style, exclusive interviews and the latest glowbiz news.

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I’ll let you in to a little secret, and I really CAN NOT say very much more its top top secret- but we are planning a Laundry party!! Oh yes, winging its way into your inbox VERY shortly will be an invite from Ms Rachel Fleming to come and celebrate our 1000^th customer sign up. I know! From such little beginnings we have grown and grown, acorn to oak n’ all that jazz.

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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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