Saturday, March 01, 2008

Laundretta: Who Upset Her?

POOR LAUNDRETTA*. Throwing a massive tantrum on the stairs at around 4:30 am. Oh yeah, and our front door is swinging open 24-7, too. Probably thanks to her.

I found her half-asleep by the bathroom with vodka bottle and orange juice. Unfortunately my presence seemed to perk her up and when I returned from the shop with my mushrooms, peppers and cyder (fry-up ingredients (didn't fry the cyder though)) she took to tirading the purplest of blue language up the stairs at Matran who, she claimed was "having sex with another girl IN MY BED"!

I don't know what else to say except that as Gattina perceptively observed, my robos living on newspapers as they now do, are indeed the best-read hamsters in London.

*ps following a couple of "no comprendo" comments, perhaps I should point out that LAUNDRETTA is my 28 year-old drinking, crack-smoking working-girl neighbour. The toddler illustration is "symbolic"...

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20 comments:

  1. sorry...but i didnt gt a word of this...

    anyways...keep smilin...

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  2. Not sure I got it right but anyway your life always looks interesting ;)

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  3. Well that is a wonderful way of keeping perspective, by allotting exactly the same measure of import to a wailing junkie in the hallway, as you do the innocuous meanderings of your hamsters. I love it.

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  4. DSinner: uh?

    ~Zhu: uh??

    M-filer: hmmm you DO get it...

    Laundretta is my misbehaved neighbour who hollars and screams... that's all there is to get...

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  5. oh good, i suppose i thought the same thing m-filer did.

    you're just reporting the facts as you see them. LOL

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  6. Hi Gleds,
    Nice neighbour you've got there.There's never a dull moment with you, is there! By the way, thanks for your comment about Great Welsh Roads.I'm lucky enough to be able to pick up Welsh TV on my set in the bedroom.Fishlocks Wild Tracks was another programme I enjoy when it's on.

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  7. I'm sure it's in a few posts on your blog somewhere... just don't have the extra time today to scan thru...so please give me a quickie rundown on your living quarters. How many rooms/apartments? And who are the main tenants, or characters if you will.

    I must say, you do have an interesting way of putting things. ;)

    Have a good weekend!

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  8. sigh... i LOVE it when you write about laudretta.... LOVE IT...

    PS. I bought the book by kate holden cuz u suggested it. i'll let you know my thoughts when i read it.

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  9. I'm sorry you have to have your brain invaded by such shrewery.

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  10. Yes, I'm with Crystal Chick; give us a brief tour of chez Gleds. Do you have a flatmate/roommate?

    Yikes; not good to be awoken/kept awake/bothered by screaming mimis.

    How's your leg??

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  11. oh, the drama of it all.

    Although, when you're drinking & drugging, this is a normal activity, isn't it? My ex and I used to have our moments and I can say, in all honesty, that I'm glad that life's behind me.

    I'm like Ivy...the laundretta posts are some of my favorites. I can somehow picture her.

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  12. Gledwood, I still say you have the most interesting blog and the most interesting life in the blogosphere.

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  13. She's only 28?! Wow, and her life is already ruined...

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  14. You are surrounded by nutcases!

    How's your leg honey?

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  15. Poor Laundretta, indeed. I hope she's calmed down now. We'll have your hammies ananlysing the news next, Gleds!

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  16. OK I HAVE TO REPLY TOMORROW AS I HAVE ABOUT 6 MINS LEFT AND IT'LL ONLY LOG ME OUT MID-COMMENT IF I TRY NOW...

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  17. Danny: Thanks for the message. Glad you liked my blog: come back sometime soon! ;->...

    Angie:
    yeah Welsh telly can be very special. It's just if that's ALL you have... you end up losing out Friends and stuff you really wanna see in favour of Cardiff Singer of the World and other stuff which is good but which you might rather just watch Desperate Housewives or other American schlock in favour of...

    Crystal: my house? I share with three other people. two of these three are drinkers/crackies. the other one is plain mad and thoroughly unpleasant. Laundretta says she's woken on the stairs to the sight of him "pleasuring" himself right over her "please let me finish" he begged. Big UIRGHCKKKK!!!

    Ivy:
    Kate Holden:~ at first reading that book I thought "hey she never really had much of a habit"... her middleclass background chimes with mine (and probably yours ~ she was anything but a "rough" character...) I just think her life was different... and she had the strength or inner resources to stop after just five years of constant habituation to the drug...

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  18. Nessa: "shrewery"! I like that!

    Tut-tut: my leg's slowly getting better, thanks. As for noises off: I'm so used to them they do not bother me... I've done a v short answer to Crystal's Q... I shall have to post up the ~Tour Proper ... OK?

    Debs: Laundretta is one hell of a character. I really like her though I used not to at ALL. Yes the chaos that ensues is pretty typical: I know you know what I mean...

    Josie: Most interesting blog?~ Wow!~~ Cheers Dears!

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  19. Whitenoise: her life was ruined LONG before 28 I'm afraid...

    Akelamalu: the leg's getting much better. It's still a bit weepy from underneath but blisters all gone and transformed into hard scabs. "Nature's dressings" as I call them.

    Welshcakes: probably have my hammies READING the news next!!
    ;->...

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  20. Good to hear your legs getting better. x

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