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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Whew. I didn't want to admit that bit, but I do that too - so does youngest  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2021
    @Fairygirl ... I even consider where and how I place something on the kitchen worktop or the dining table ... aesthetics rule ok!!!  B)

    Most people 'put something on the worktop' ... I 'place' it ... even if it's only a courgette that I'm going to cook with in a few minutes. lol

    Mind you, in the back garden I plant things where they'll grow ... the front is much more 'considered'.  ;)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited August 2021
    Dovefromabove said:
      I also matched or contrasted them with the garment ... deliberate consideration and decision made ... but I put it down to being an artist  ;)

    You see - there is a whole anthropology book right here. :D

    I didn't realise until recently that washing line etiquette was a thing. The set of four streets where I live were built as workers' cottages and are mostly two bedrooms, historically cheaper. Here nearly eveyone has a washing line out and uses it most days. I am regarded as odd for not having a line. The next estate over is of big houses that would have had servants in Edwardian times. They are posher and have a different set of people living there with a different income level and demographic. My friend there is one of the only people who has a washing line out and she says people regard it as common.  She feels very self conscious. The two estates are only within two streets of each other. It's all very daft.

    It's alarming to think of all those people using tumble driers out of snobbery. England is such an odd country.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Fire said:
    Dovefromabove said:
      I also matched or contrasted them with the garment ... deliberate consideration and decision made ... but I put it down to being an artist  ;)

    You see - there is a whole anthropolgy book right here. :D
    And of course, the way the washing is arranged on the line is given aesthetic consideration too.   B)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I don't go quite that far @Dovefromabove, but I've taught the girls to make sure the heavier stuff goes on the outside.... ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    You probably don't give consideration to colour when you put it in the airing cupboard either do you?  slattern!!! 🤣 🤗

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I edited the last message above.

    What do you do in the winter or in rainy times?
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    No longer have one of those @Dovefromabove  ;)
    Anyway - my smalls are out, so I'm off for a walk now that all the weans will be safely ensconced in the classrooms....
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited August 2021
    Added later.

    We have a coil-up retractable washing line.  That might work for you.  When it's down there is nothing to be seen, when it's up it's covered with washing.

    It does take more than seconds to do, and needs a stretch to reach.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Fire said:
    Dovefromabove said:
      I also matched or contrasted them with the garment ... deliberate consideration and decision made ... but I put it down to being an artist  ;)

    You see - there is a whole anthropology book right here. :D

    I didn't realise until recently that washing line etiquette was a thing. ...... England is such an odd country.
    Isn't it just 🤣  totally class-ridden ... still ... 😢

    In the winter the washing still goes out on dry days ... if the weather's not good enough to hang the washing out I heave a sigh and drape it on racks around the radiator in the study ... with the window slightly ajar so the room doesn't get steamy.  

    I had a tumble drier many years ago when the children were small ... OH obtained it second hand and arrived home with it, but it really didn't get much use.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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