with the dryer broken i was able to show my kid the way of my ancestors, and how to dry clothes on a clothesline
and also the way of me, as a kid
and also the way of me, as an adult, when i go back to the UK because its normal there
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@SecureOwl This is the second post I’ve seen today about clotheslines, so I have a question that people in this thread might be able to answer:
How do you keep the spiders off?
If we hang up clothes in the garden (and we have tried with both a simple retractable line and a rotating thingy on a pole), they get covered in cobwebs in about ten minutes. Spiders love them, clothes hanging on a line are a perfect place for a web that catches insects flying across the garden, but the anchor points need to be strong so they put a load of web on the clothes. And then they all need washing again when they come in.
@david_chisnall never had the spider issue tbh, which now that you mention it is a surprise
@SecureOwl @david_chisnall how are they getting on the lines in the first place? Climbing the poles? Spray the poles with permethrin