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Right. Washing lines- ban them. Whirligigy things- owners to be served with ASBOs. We have had the same neighbours for 30 years-lovely people but last month they set up their new whirliwhatever in a direct sight-line from our kitchen window. Now, there is only the pair of them so how much washing can they have in a week? A LOT. Every day it's so loaded with washing that the whirly can hardly whirl. The thing is, we never see them wearing any of the clothes! Are they a couple of OAPs with a laundry fetish? Has Jenny turned into the street's Widow Twankey?. We just want it to stop.They have had every imaginable item of clothing on that bloody roundabout thing bar a burka.
We put up some trellis, you can see through it; at least you can whilst it remains up-right (which is not long.) We bought an expensive Photinia in a large pot, gave it tender loving care- the leaves are falling off. Our window is higher than their garden so really we need a couple of 10ft laylandii but a couple of those on the patio and we won't be able to see anything. I suppose if the only thing you have to moan about is next-doors washing life can't be that bad. But still..
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« Reply #6213 on: 17:29:57, 11-06-2008 » |
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Hello Ted, I hesitate to suggest this but a smoky bonfire from next door is the one thing that always makes my good lady run to retrieve her washing from our line, as no one wants smoky laundry, do they? Not that I would ever do that myself of course.  |
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That's not kind Martin  Mind you were it not for that experience the last time I set fire to the dead pampas grass...  |
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I don't understand why my neighbours produce such large amounts of washing. I could understand it when they had four children at home but everyday, sometimes twice a day, the whirligig gets loaded up. She used to take in ironing (she absolutely loves ironing) and that was quite profitable, perhaps she now takes in washing and then irons it??  I find a love of ironing quite incomprehensible. |
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« Reply #6217 on: 18:42:09, 11-06-2008 » |
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« Reply #6218 on: 18:49:47, 11-06-2008 » |
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What's 'ironing'?
I once did 'ironing' in 1998 Marty, it involved extreme heat and great steaminess. Then I remembered what Father Josephine had always told me:- "It profit not man nor woman souls to press a hot object upon crumpled cotton". So I didn't do it again for fear of eternal damnation. |
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There is something calming in underwear hanging to dry, don't you think? Or may be I think so because no one is hanging their washing under my windows.  This is more my style because the weather is usually bad and I can not wait for a good day. |
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Thank goodness I dont have neighbours...I would never cope ! x Jan x Great sadness here (Cornwall) because of the 26 dolphins dead in a creek on the south coast. Nightmare. Nothing compared to starving millions I know. But.  |
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I got the sack from my ironing job as a teenager when I scorched a white Victorian tablecloth...why on earth my neighbour trusted me with that to iron I have no idea! I very rarely iron anything these days, but was brought up to iron everything - especially tea-towels to kill the germs. Well, we seem to be surviving OK with germy tea-towels. What I do hate having to iron is those plastic bead pictures my daughter likes to make. You think they've all melted just enough to stick together so you stop but then find that you missed a few. So you do it a bit more - and melt them too much.  |
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Hi MJ  I never iron plastic beads in my life, but I know how upsetting it is to miss a few things while cleaning. I am so sad about dolphins. Life is so sad some times. Why do things like that have to happen? Poor animals are trying to survive with our egotistic desires. |
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Great sadness here (Cornwall) because of the 26 dolphins dead in a creek on the south coast. Nightmare. I agree Jan, it is such a shame that such intelligent gentle creatures should die like this.  A |
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« Reply #6224 on: 21:48:12, 11-06-2008 » |
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cleaning.
What's 'cleaning'? MJ, does anyone really buy the iron-manufacturers' line on killing bugs? This is arrant twerpdom. Any 'bugs' will have died a fearsome death during the early stages of the washing process, if you're washing at a proper heat. (If in doubt, wash. ) So whether to iron is an utterly aesthetic decision. |
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