We were aware of the crisis when we first booked, so decided to be cautious where we located ourselves.Derek
Thank you @ianpspurs and good luck with the OCD laundry methodology.Good morning to you all from a dry, clear but less obviously almost mid summer in L.A. than yesterday. As someone once said, one can only hope or perhaps D:Ream. Hugs for TGIB, @gennepher and @jjraak. Thoughts and prayers for TLC to all. @dunelm thank you for sharing the trees. @alf_Josiah hanging out washing is complicated. You seem to have successfully completed level 1. The higher levels are far more complex. Different types, sizes and colours of pegs are needed along with the correct position on the line/rotary airer. Add in all the different receptacles for said pegs, correct manner of folding and order of loading dry clothes plus into which basket different items must be placed and one can see how it is a difficult, skilled task far beyond the simple male brain. Anyhow, tea won't drink itself. Have as much pleasure as possible in the unique circumstances of your Tuesday but peace be with you.
Sounds like my MIL's sytem. My mother was a bit more slapdash. As long as the washing got out on the line in some manner, if it wasn't raining, she was quite content. If it could be hung on a hanger - fine and good; if not it would stay in a basket waiting to be folded when someone got around to it. If that happened before someone wanted to wear it - fine; if not - too bad. Things that had to be ironed would be done before they got creased, but that was the only imperative. Tom was a bit shocked when he saw that I had some "bad habits" when I married. He soon got used to it though. These days though I can't get out to what used to be the drying green before all this rain stopped the grass being cut, so pulley or tumble dryer it is. Neil is a bit particular with his washing, so he does his own and folds it neatly. Asperger's! OCD isn't my style.Good morning to you all from a dry, clear but less obviously almost mid summer in L.A. than yesterday. As someone once said, one can only hope or perhaps D:Ream. Hugs for TGIB, @gennepher and @jjraak. Thoughts and prayers for TLC to all. @dunelm thank you for sharing the trees. @alf_Josiah hanging out washing is complicated. You seem to have successfully completed level 1. The higher levels are far more complex. Different types, sizes and colours of pegs are needed along with the correct position on the line/rotary airer. Add in all the different receptacles for said pegs, correct manner of folding and order of loading dry clothes plus into which basket different items must be placed and one can see how it is a difficult, skilled task far beyond the simple male brain. Anyhow, tea won't drink itself. Have as much pleasure as possible in the unique circumstances of your Tuesday but peace be with you.
Oh god!Sounds like my MIL's sytem. My mother was a bit more slapdash. As long as the washing got out on the line in some manner, if it wasn't raining, she was quite content. If it could be hung on a hanger - fine and good; if not it would stay in a basket waiting to be folded when someone got around to it. If that happened before someone wanted to wear it - fine; if not - too bad. Things that had to be ironed would be done before they got creased, but that was the only imperative. Tom was a bit shocked when he saw that I had some "bad habits" when I married. He soon got used to it though. These days though I can't get out to what used to be the drying green before all this rain stopped the grass being cut, so pulley or tumble dryer it is. Neil is a bit particular with his washing, so he does his own and folds it neatly. Asperger's! OCD isn't my style.
DIL runs a laundry which she calls "The Wee Steamie". This is to evoke memories of the days when Scottish towns and cities had "Steamies", which were old fashioned laundries where women could take their family wash and some soap and use the hot water and wash tubs/wringers, drying racks - hard manual work. The women had almost all of their social experiences in those steamies. It was where they gossipped and learned what was happening in the world as well as giving each other support through difficult times. Probably none of the younger folk in towns know anything about those bad old days or can even imagine the hardships but those women were tough! There was a TV play a few years ago about a Glasgow steamie. Brilliant piece of work.Oh god!
Oops!
But, you have just reminded me of our pulley drying system over and above the fire/chimney, in the 50s early sixties. We never had a drier, can't remember one, even when we had a twin tub.
We still went to the laundrette, on the corner of the main road.
As youngest, it was another of my chores, either after school of on a Saturday, it was closed on a Sunday. Sometimes did two washes there, whites and colours. Different settings of course. And I would sit there reading books or a comic, with the bags cos it wasn't called a laundrette or a laundromat., (Eek!)
It was commonly known as a bagwash.
Going to my under five years, and my mum had a Tuesday off, we would be at the council run huge laundry, and the hordes of washerwomen and their kids. It was so hot, the machines were massive. And I remember even then, the way every one of them helped one another, and never stopped talking.
Now you have machines with a computer that washes, dries, thinks for itself and stops when the sensors tell it to. My machines and driers in the club were the latest models in 2015. The detergent, the softener and stain remover (similar to vanish) were built in and programmed to supply in amounts suitable to the machine temperature and fabric setting, and it did have a heavy duty cold wash for when the kit got extra muddy. We still had to scrub sometimes.
The best was a refresh wash, after training the synthetics of the material of training kit and being a dark colour, a quick refresh wash of fifteen, twenty minutes and five minutes in the drier would wash to a good standard whilst the players were having something else to do, or getting changed.
The drier had an anti static, anti crease system built in, programmes for every eventuality, fabric and make a cuppa to my liking. It was great but not that great, I had to make my own cuppa!!!!!!
If it could fill and empty itself, hang out and fold and put away. I might be impressed!!!
Who the heck mentioned washing?
Bet it was some downtrodden individual that has to do too much in the home, and is not very adept at it all!
And is always looking for sympathy!!!
Gonna get the washing of the line now!
Have a lovely evening!
Reading between the lines @gennepher it sounds like the audiologist 's behaviour was completely beyond the pale
Eactly, what I remember, but for the life of me I can't remember what we called them.DIL runs a laundry which she calls "The Wee Steamie". This is to evoke memories of the days when Scottish towns and cities had "Steamies", which were old fashioned laundries where women could take their family wash and some soap and use the hot water and wash tubs/wringers, drying racks - hard manual work. The women had almost all of their social experiences in those steamies. It was where they gossipped and learned what was happening in the world as well as giving each other support through difficult times. Probably none of the younger folk in towns know anything about those bad old days or can even imagine the hardships but those women were tough! There was a TV play a few years ago about a Glasgow steamie. Brilliant piece of work.
Enjoying these delightful wildlife videos @gennepherFbg 7.9
Stress did that...
Nighttime wildlife video
Fox & Badger & Cat
43secs
Creative... like yesterday, on a postcard for my postcrossing friends, watercolour & ink drawing with Japanese calligraphy pen.
Put in Snapseed for copyright and name.
Ready for a nap...
Have your best day...
Smashing piece of art, I like this styleFbg 7.9
Stress did that...
Nighttime wildlife video
Fox & Badger & Cat
43secs
Creative... like yesterday, on a postcard for my postcrossing friends, watercolour & ink drawing with Japanese calligraphy pen.
Put in Snapseed for copyright and name.
Ready for a nap...
Have your best day...
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Thanks @Krystyna23040Reading between the lines @gennepher it sounds like the audiologist 's behaviour was completely beyond the pale
Thank you @LivingLightlyEnjoying these delightful wildlife videos @gennepher
This morning, I watched two of the fox cubs bounding along our garden path, well-lit by early morning sunshine. A short while afterwards, Mum followed and settled down contentedly in much the same sunny spot as before. Sunlight it seems has near enough the same effect on them as us.
My back garden, which is more akin to a nature reserve than a garden, is beginning to look like rain forest thanks to all the wet weather. Ferns have grown lush. while tall plants like Hemp Agrimony and Hogweed have shot up in recent weeks. Their large umbels of flowers attract an interesting range of pollinators but it's hard to see what's there this year as the umbels now tower above my head.
Tuesday's FBG, 4.3 mmol on waking at 6.00 am.
Lovely that Midnight and the other cats offer their own sympathy @gennepher. Really great that this time you had the additional proof that the mapping had gone badly wrong.Thank you @ianpspurs
It is a disgrace, and I tried very hard about 8 years ago to do something about this situation. But there is more that I haven't written about. I wasn't believed then, and I felt invalidated, a fool and more, because I was told that this situation could never arise. But this time, I had additional proof, in the form of serial numbers (which I had not known existed before), and I approached a different avenue to make my all concerns noted. And consequently everything else was checked out yesterday. And they found my mapping had been badly wrong for a long time.
Oh yes, cats sense my stress, especially Midnight. They do offer their own sympathy.
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