Chores and Afternoon Tea

Why is it that you spend only two nights away from home and the laundry pile is four times what it normally is?  Than goodness we are having such a glorious September and I have been able to get things dry.  I refuse a drier and prefer my long line.

While I glean perverse enjoyment from the sorting and pegging of laundry, I despise the pressing of it, and seem to have spent the last two days ironing continuously.

Having pegged my washing at 0630 this morning, I had these babies in the oven before 0700.  They were smothered in radioactive icing and nibbled with my Nan as we spent an enjoyable afternoon in the sunshine in her garden celebrating her 80th birthday.

I am now going to pic my jaw up from the floor having just watch Jamie Oliver's exploits with an alligator. Oh my.

Comments

[little pink room]

Well done you! Your productivity is very impressive. Cute cakes!

[Laura]

I love laundry on the line, too. And it smells so much fresher than machine-dried clothes!

The cakes are beautiful - a very nostalgic green!

[Alison]

Love love your washing line. Well, really I love all the linens hanging from it. Very pleasing!

[Menopausalmusing]

"Radioactive Icing" made me laugh...... thank you! I also have a loooooong washing line and love it. x

[Jennyff]

I'm right behind you on the joys of outdoor drying and loathing of ironing. Sadly I don't seem able to get up quite as early as you.

[Liza]

I also hang out our clothes and towels and sheets year round, and find it relaxing and get a great deal of satisfaction from it. I am considering going "Greener" and giving up ironing/pressing in order to conserve energy, and all that other stuff, really it would be for environmental reasons.

[PinkCat]

Do you think you could come round and do mine?

The cakes look yum! x

[Lisa]

I won't buy a tumble drier, which does mean clothes airers in the home during the winter which isn't always very convenient, but line drying gets my vote everytime.
Hope your Grandma enjoyed her special day, and the special cupcakes.
Lisa

[vanessa @ do you mind if i knit]

I know I shouldn't want to eat your Fairy Cakes, but I do! Somehow it goes against my best instincts to love the sight of your radio active cakes!
I've always been perturbed by Tumble Driers myself, and never had one. This stance always leads to me feeling like I live like a student, with washing drying eveywhere! I have a fantasy of having a special drying room in the house, called a utility room. I long for a utility room!
Love Vanessa xxx

[Emma]

Hi Lucy - camping with Alex James, very impressive! Emma ;0)

[cathleen]

I LOVE this post! So pretty and cozy-looking. And your cakes look positively divine. Wish I could have a couple with my coffee right this very minute.