I took over twin tub duties and didn’t wash a week’s worth of clothes and towels (from 5 people) in one lot of water and I must say, looking back, the clothes were cleaner, stains were easier to get out and it was a lot quicker wash-wise.
The quickest wash on my auto is an hour but some of them are FOUR!
Our machine takes a long time too but I do always select the extra rinse. Don't care that it takes hours as it doesn't need any further intervention or supervision so I'm free to get on with other stuff, or not, as I see fit.
Our dogs have never stolen the washing but then it never got hung outside till we moved here nearly 5 years ago and they were 9 and 7 by then.
We bought the whirlygig for this house, given I'm turning the traditional lines in to plat supports. The darn thing is refusing to collapse back and hasn't retracted all its lines either! Curmudge!
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I inherited my mum's twin tub but the kitchen of our house was very narrow and you couldn't get past it. Grew up with 'proper' clotheslines that ran right down the garden. There were 3 posts concreted in with a fixed lower line and the top lines had pulleys. Mum would peg the sheets out flat. 3 kids, 2 parents. Was surprised by my (then future) MIL's line. 1 line not very long and propped up, same size family.
Now we have a 4 arm whirly which stays out cos it's stuck. Our side wall to the pavement is low but I have no problem hanging anything out.
That’s what we have. In winter I usually use radiators (and never have any issues with damp or humid air), and on mild, wet days we have a heated clothes horse from Lakeland which is excellent.
When we had a rotary washing line we usually referred to it to each other simply as the washing line eg ‘would you put the washing line in the shed for me please?’ but it was sometimes referred to as the whirligig … particularly if it was being awkward … ‘the flamin’ whirligig is all tangled up again’. The garden was tiny … the Brabantia rotary washing line occupied the whole garden area when erected so it had to go in the shed if we wanted to sit on the garden bench. Perhaps we called it the whirligig when it appeared to have a will of it’s own. 😂
I know folk who give names to lots of inanimate objects … we don’t anthropomorphise but the cars have always had names in a sort of ironic way.
The other objects that are called something that they are not are the tv remote controls …. I envisage the day when I’m an old woman and ask a carer to hand me the Bing Bongs …. They’ll think I’m totally batty …. they won’t know that’s what they’re really called and have been so ever since I was 42 🤣
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Our dogs have never stolen the washing but then it never got hung outside till we moved here nearly 5 years ago and they were 9 and 7 by then.
We bought the whirlygig for this house, given I'm turning the traditional lines in to plat supports. The darn thing is refusing to collapse back and hasn't retracted all its lines either! Curmudge!
Now we have a 4 arm whirly which stays out cos it's stuck. Our side wall to the pavement is low but I have no problem hanging anything out.
but it was sometimes referred to as the whirligig … particularly if it was
being awkward … ‘the flamin’ whirligig is all tangled up again’. The garden was tiny … the Brabantia rotary washing line occupied the whole garden area when erected so it had to go in the shed if we wanted to sit on the garden bench. Perhaps we called it the whirligig when it appeared to have a will of it’s own. 😂
I know folk who give names to lots of inanimate objects … we don’t anthropomorphise but the cars have always had names in a sort of ironic way.
carer to hand me the Bing Bongs …. They’ll think I’m totally batty …. they won’t know that’s what they’re really called and have been so ever since I was 42 🤣
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.