How Exciting?

Clothes Horse

How exciting. Not Really. But doing laundry is a part of the lifestyle we are living here in Edinburgh. Fortunately, our flat does have a washer/dryer built in to the counter in the kitchen (a separate laundry room is a luxury not commonly enjoyed here). Read on to hear about the mundane topic of laundry.

Laundry loads are quite small, an armful at a time at most. And, it takes a long time to do that armload, an hour and a half for the wash. Caution, drying anything beyond damp results in wrinkle city. Really, we have never seen laundry that wrinkled, worse than the face of a Shar Pei.

Fortunately, we have a clothes horse (see photo). AKA drying racks, airers, clothes maidens, or winterdykes. Now, there is a name for you, winterdykes. In Scotland, the word "dyke" means a wall or a fence made without mortar that was occasionally used for hanging laundry in the summer months. Hence the winter dyke refers to drying in the colder weather months.

Interesting how we, accustomed to US standard of living, can be having such a great time living in a European (lower) standard of living. Clue:  it isn't about the physical features of where we live. It is all about how we spend our time. Lifestyle.