Look!
Here are some hard-working laundry men enjoying
the fence and its current incumbent, the popular
SMEG fridge door.
'I live in Marylebone Village and I work in Marylebone
Village. I object to outsiders coming in here and
making the place look unsightly by leaving their
filthy bicycles everywhere.’ Said Andrea
McGlashan on BBC Radio 5 this week (It's Thursday
June 28 today).
McGlashans
appear to be running a commercial laundry from the
basement flat here (I hope they applied for a change
of use license).
This
laundry business and its trucks blocking the mews
or Marylebone lane a few times a day does not cause
anything like as much disturbance in Marylebone
Village as a bicycle attached to some railings.
Does it?
Don't
forget, you can rent one of their many serviced
flats for around £2000 per week, including
laundry. (Our First-Class tenants include American
Corporations, International Banks, Embassies &
Government Personnel). Have
a look.
| Three
sheets to the wind
'Sails
are controlled with ropes called ‘sheets’
and the most any sail has is two – a
lee side sheet and a weather sheet. The sailor’s
contention is that if a man who had been drinking
was given as many as ‘three’ sheets
he could still not steady or control himself
on a regular course. An alternative idea is
that of a ship caught with three (jib) sheets
in the wind as she goes from one tack to the
other. The sails would flap and the ship would
wallow and stagger in the locomotion of a
drunk.'
From “Salty Dog Talk:
The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions”
by Bill Beavis and Richard G. McCloskey (Sheridan
House, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., 1995. First published
in Great Britain, 1983).
|
Three
Sheets to The Wind cocktail (well, it's a shot)
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Ingredients:
1/3 Jagermeister
1/3 Rumpleminze
1/3 Tequila
Mixing instructions:
Combine ingredients in a shot glass.
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