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| Tadaaa! The first washing of 2012 hung out.
I know, it's a total state, but that's what happens when Tartarus suggests that HE hangs out the washing while *I* go to the supermarket. I have superior washing-hanging-out skills.
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The clematis in the greenhouse - still flowering its socks off and the whole greenhouse is perfumed with jasmine and hyacinth.
My Mother's Day gooseberry 'bush'. It turned out to have two roots, both about the length of a grain of rice and the width of an eyelash. I know. It doesn't look too hopeful, does it?
I'm having flashbacks to Wilfred the decapitated sunflower
And lastly, the new baby - well he's about 3 months old now. He's Tartarus's nephew's baby. We have no idea what that makes us to him. But we luffs him.
This photo seems to have captured the only 10 minutes of the whole weekend that he slept.
Beautiful down in here in Wiltshire and I too have washing on the line for the first time this year. Check us out!
ReplyDelete*high fives you* We are just toooooo cool. Want to come up and do the resulting ironing?!
DeleteAli x
That washing looks fine to me - but then I don't have superior skills!
ReplyDeleteMercifully, he DID remember to clean the washing line before he hung everything out. I hang t-shirts up by the hem, he hangs by the shoulder.
DeleteHe also put his leather slippers in (dark brown) to wash with a bright yellow t-shirt. Which is now khaki.
Ali x
aaaaah....bless.......I have passed on little or nothing of use to my son.....except he does know how to peg out the wash!!x
ReplyDeletePS If Looby comes this way.....just to say.....again.....I rarely seem to be allowed to leave him messages....why??
YAH can you email me at blog at loobynet dot co dot you Kay and we;ll sort it out so that you can rummage in my drawers again.
DeleteThat is all VERY cryptic..... :-) *wonders what Mrs YaH found in Looby's drawers*
DeleteAli x
Not bad effort with the laundry, but don't envy whoever has to iron out the peg shoulders in that t-shirt LOL! Isn't the weather amazing? This always happens - one day its the depths of winter, the next you're too hot in a t-shirt! Long may it last!
ReplyDeletev. v. v. v. v. cute baby! xxx
I think that in the Merchant Navy, the bigger you can make your shoulders look, the better - hence the pinning by the shoulders. I am making excuses for him now. That will never do!
DeleteIt's glorious again today - but a bit chillier. Apparently Scotland could have snow by the end of the week. Depressing.
Ali x
Yep, I've had my washing out too, it's been crazily warm. Hanging out washing is one of the only - make that THE only - domestic chore I can tolerate, it's quite satisfying.
ReplyDeleteAhhh - sleeping baby! All babies are at their most adorable when they're asleep - even if it was only for 10 minutes! xxxxx
I like hanging out a washing too! Much more contemplative than battering your way around the supermarket....
DeleteBaby was adorable when asleep. Actually, he was pretty adorable when howling the house down too!
Last time I hung out the washing, my Beloved tut-tutted in a very superior way, took it all down and re-hung it. Quite honestly, I couldn't see the difference. BUT if I don't at least offer to hang the washing up, my brownie score drops quite merkedly.
ReplyDeleteRIP Gooseberry, it's not long for this world.
Gooseberry is looking REALLY sad today. I have kept the packaging and if it dies, it's going back to the shop. It's a disgrace selling something with two tiny roots as ready to plant!
DeleteI'd make you hang the washing out until it was PERFECT!
Ali x
i too have the skillz, but alas lack the weather. we're still another 2 months away from things going green.
ReplyDeletealso, i love that the baby comes with a warning. that's the way i always picture babies in my head, and so i don't have any.
We nearly always lack the weather too - so fret not. Yes, babies should not only come with a warning, but also a Haynes Owners' Mamual.
DeleteAli x
But then isn't that big sheet in the middle a fitted one? They're buggers.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that baby has got a warning label on it. They should all have them.
Fitted sheets are the Devil's Work. Especially the attempted folding of a king sized fitted sheet. I just roll them into a ball and hope for the best when I pull it's crinkled little carcass out to stretch over the mattress!
DeleteAli x
Sorry, didn't mean to simply repeat Polish Chick there. Oooh eck, these clocks going forward has thrown me!
ReplyDeleteMe too. Some of our clocks and watches have gone forward twice. Tartarus being efficient and me doing it again, just being dozy!
DeleteLOL at the perfect placement of the warning label; he's Tartarus' great-nephew, apparently - depending on which tree you look at, a Monster or maybe one of the Titans ....
ReplyDeleteSonshine should perhaps be Typhon :-D
Lovely - tops are wrong way up which stretches the shoulders but what can you do - at least he hung it up!
ReplyDeleteI think he's working on the premise that if he makes an arse of it that he won't need to do it again. Of course, he WILL have to do it again and again. Until he gets it right :-)
DeleteAli x
Dear Alison, I really miss hanging the washing out (who would have ever thought I would say that). Clothes just smell better don't they? We live in a flat so everything is dried on clothes horses which is not quite the same. In Australia in my mother's day, where every respectable house used to have a Hill's Hoist, there used to be a rigid system about hanging out the washing (preferably on a Monday morning) which included how you hung clothes and mandated that the sheets be hung around the outside to shield one's neighbours from a view of one's unmentionables! Gorgeous baby - somehow the world cannot be a bad place when there are such lovely creatures in it! love Lindaxxx
ReplyDeleteNow that's something that I never thought about! Shielding my neighbours' sensibilities from my (large) smalls! I will give that a whirl with the next load that I pin out.
DeleteWeather due to change tomorrow, so might be back to hanging on the clothes horse in the back bedroom!
Ali x
It makes him your great-nephew!
ReplyDeleteI am hanging out our first washing of the year, but being that we live in a tenement, I am hanging it out of our window!
Dave isn't allowed to hang washing. He doesn't do it neatly either.
Are you two any closer to moving back to this side of the country? Hanging it out of a window is a good compromise!
DeleteAli x
WONDERFUL Post.thanks for share..
ReplyDeleteAmazing photos! Thanks so much for sharing!
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