This, that and the other, but we wont mention the weather!

I am late for Thursday's favourite Things! One of my favourite housework chores........well the one I enjoy doing is pegging the washing out on the line. I took this photograph a few weeks ago, in fact the last time I saw blue sky over our house. If you look carefully (you may admire the hanging baskets in the background lol) you will observe I have quite a methodical approach to pegging out the clothes. Here you can see I hang Jon's socks in pairs, this is so when I take them off the line I pair them up and drop them in the basket, then straight into Jon's sock drawer. I once worked with a lady who HAD to hang out her washing with matching coloured clothes pegs. I think about her every time I peg out my washing, bless. It takes all sorts I guess. When this lady retired, myself and another member of staff complied a powerpoint presentation for her retirement party. It went down a storm and featured a drama we had written all about the lady in hand and her obsession with the clothes peg colours. We developed the story line into an hilarious farce featuring our lady in a watch tower scanning the washing lines of her neighbourhood to see who had used incorrect coloured pegs...in which instance she would march round to the offending washing line and blast it with her shotgun. Of course, it brought the house down and her family were screaming with laughter. So whilst I pride myself on my methodology my colour co-ordination is lacking! We have a washer-dryer and like many of us, I rarely use the dryer in an effort to keep the fuel bills down to the cost of Just an average mortgage.....however this past week has frustrated me. The weather has been truly dreadful. The atmosphere has been damp, so it wasn't possible to dry the clothes round the house. Instead I had to use the tumble dryer. Outside it was raining heavily, so on went the dryer. After the said period of time just as the dryer finished the rain stopped...out came the sunshine! FUME! Another load was awaiting, so I took out the dry load, dealt with it whilst the second load washed away. Sun still shining, so I merrily went about my daily routines. Washing Cycle ends......(sun still shining) so I put the washed clothes into the basket and took it outside into the garden. It was quite a large load, but I hung it all out on the long washing line. No sooner had I put the final peg into place I felt spots of rain on my arms....then the spots grew into marble size, hard marble size...yes hail stones. I then did a good impression of a demented idiot removing all of the clothes pegs and dropping them into the basket...no neat folds or co-ordination of pegs, pairs or like minded garments! Nay! Into the basket with the entire contents of the washing line. I flew (literally) into the kitchen and shut the door! I sorted the washing from the pegs and divided the damp washing into 2 lots, as the drying capacity is smaller than the washing capacity even though it is the same machine. I dried one load, removed, sorted, folded, ironed accordingly whilst the second load dried. On its completion I removed and did the same...folded, ironed, checked, put away into airing cupboard or appropriate drawer. I returned to the kitchen to hang up the peg bag. The rain stopped and the sun came out! It remained in the sky for the next few hours! Typical! Now, the sky is a dark grey and it is pouring with rain! Yes, it is a bank holiday weekend and Jon has some time off! Welcome to the world of British Summertime. Still, as Jon pointed out it will soon be Christmas! LOL! You have to laugh! More on our weekend later, it all depends on the weather. We were hoping to go to Sheffield to watch the demolition of the infamous power station chimneys..... we'll just have to see! There is always some washing to catch up on! Oh and the pegs will not be matching colours! For more Favourite things visit Blue!