A woman's comic poems, written to pass the time on launderette day, made staff laugh so much that they have posted them on the walls.

Now Shan Lloyd hopes to be recognised as the country's first Poet Launderette.

Shan and comedy actor husband Hugh Lloyd have been livening up their visits to the Aldsworth Washeteria in Goring by thinking up poetry to pass the time.

Shan's writings include Ode To A Dirty Sock, the Lonely Life Of Lily Pinks, Talking Dirty, Bridget The Bag Lady and If Only Socks Could Speak.

In Ode To A Dirty Sock, she writes about the life of the smelly garment.

"Please don't think that I am rubbish, And put me in the bin. I may be lowly laundry, but a brave heart lurks within."

Millions of socks are lost in washing machines each year and Shan asks what happens to them in If Only Socks Could Speak:

"However many pairs one puts in that revolving drum, There will always be a missing sock. When out the wash they come. Some months may pass and you will find that one may reappear. You feel like asking, 'Where have you been throughout this passing year?"

In Poet Launderette she writes: "That great man Johnny Betjeman wrote of Harrow and Slough. But when it comes to getting clothes clean, does he know when or how?"

Shan, who lives with Hugh in Worthing, is asking people with funny experiences at the launderette to write to her at 33, Dolphin Lodge, Grand Avenue, Worthing BN11 5AL.