Category Archives: The parrot has landed.

Swine flu rides out.

So I was sitting up in bed at about six o’ clock and every time I breathed it sounded like I had swallowed a drawerful of plastic bags, all scrattling together. Not good. So when I dragged myself out of … Continue reading

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The Laver ICK diet.

New Year, New You getting a bit old?  Old Fat, Old Hips, Old Rolls of Flab still the latest thing?  Don’t worry, here at JaneLaverick.com we’re dedicated to making you so lovely and slim your nearest and most costly will … Continue reading

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January Part Works.

The start of a new year attracts optimism of various kinds, mainly from those with something to purvey who really hope that latching on to your resolution to improve yourself will afford them the prosperous new year they were wishing … Continue reading

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2010 for all the signs.

What lies ahead?  A perennial question caused entirely by our linear lifestyle, though, to be fair, in the main it’s a kindness; if we lived backwards and knew some of the ghastly things that were due to happen in our … Continue reading

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Washu!

I’b dot a code. I dot thif code from the web badager who whooshu! Ashoo!  Wishoo!  ‘Scuse be, had a code ad dow I’b dot a code waaaaashUUUUU!  Sorry, tishu, ashu! I didit predict this whed I was writing the … Continue reading

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The first ever JaneLaverick.com pantomime.

Oh no it isn’t! Oh yes it is! ’Tis the season for that most British of entertainments, the pantomime.  For far flung readers (hello!)  I should perhaps explain that this theatrical tradition, heir to the Commedia del Arte, Restoration theatre … Continue reading

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Happy Christmas

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Checking it twice.

The thing to ask yourself is: have you been naughty or nice?  Have you, perhaps been nicely naughty?  Are you so nice you’ve been naughtily nice?  Have you, for example: Found yourself washing and ironing everybody else’s clothes late at … Continue reading

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Christmas assistance no. 6.

Last minute gifts from the hardware store. Despite it being on exactly the same day every year, even the most prepared of us can be caught out gift buying desperately with half an hour to go till  closing time in … Continue reading

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Decorating with potatoes.

For the fifth (I think, are you counting?) in our helpful series bringing comfort and joy in the appalling festive season, JaneLaverick.com is utterly, quite a bit, very slightly, happy to help put up the decorations.  It’s a ghastly chore … Continue reading

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