In any launderette, I feel a bit like a character in a soap opera, and whenever I come in here this feeling is heightened by the weird and wonderful array of characters who decide they want to have a conversation with me while I’m embarrassedly trying to shove my underwear under a towel. Handy for when your washing machine’s broken, you need to use a tumble drier or you just feel like turning doing the laundry into a social occasion, this launderette seems just as good as any and the owner’s always very friendly. They currently have a deal on dry cleaning — three items for a tenner — which is good if, unlike me, you actually own clothes that require dry cleaning, and they’ve even got a good selection of trash magazines to read while you wait.