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David Hockney's Mum and I could have been best friends.

We don’t have a tumble dryer - just the sun and a sheila maid.

"If proper status you would win, be sure to hang your curtains with the right side in"

I’ve now reached the age where a good drying day is a thing. And I live in Yorkshire in these days of bizarre climate change weather so it’s a minute by minute game.

She had a point.

On our first visit to CA in 1974, my wife thought exactly that and promptly put her washing out. A short while later, we retrieved T-shirts like cardboard 😀 Now we knew why!

Speaking as someone who has been watching the weather all week and finally put a wash on about an hour ago, I am very much here for this comment.

It’s a good drying day.

Do Australians hang their washing out? I think they do, but there's nothing likely to get tangled in my British sheets that might nibble my toe and kill me - California feels at least slightly scarier in that regard than Yorkshire.

I’ve always loved this painting, so much love here

I whole heartedly agree with her.

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The three aspects of American culture that are absolutely unfathomable to the British mind: guns, healthcare, putting your washing out.

his weird views about smoking

"Land of the Free" but you might not be allowed to dry your laundry outdoors? 😜

As someone who lives with Lyme disease, I no longer hang my laundry out to dry. I used to love line dried clothes but it can be a hazard.

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For an international art superstar he always kept an awareness of where he came from and what is important, both in his work and his life.

I tried to put a clothesline in our backyard as a teen. My mom told me no because it would "look trashy"

His portraits of her, drawings or paintings, are all wonderful.

Don’t know about California but the relatives in Virginia don’t put their washing out because of the bugs.

Yorkshire through and through. @scottygb.bsky.social

Quite right to. The recent right-wing fetish for tumble driers is a betrayal of our best traditions.

@laurenlaverne.bsky.social I would think exactly the same!

This would be very dependent on time of year. Also which specific part of the midlands we are in. She could also calculate the adiabasic lapse rate by sight

Grandmas know things. Mine insisted I let strudel dough sit for at least 3 hours before stretching. She didn't know the science of gluten but she knew baking.

Yorkshire woman

R exchanged a few words with him at Glyndebourne a couple of years ago when his Rake’s Progress production was on. She said that he was perfectly charming and impeccably dressed being pushed around in a wheelchair and having a great time. I should be so lucky.

I don’t want to generalise, but in some areas/states in the U.S., I think quite a lot of Homeowners Associations just ban outdoor clotheslines. Really shocked me! Anywho, that quote is fabulously British.

And a very sustainable way of thinking. Why waste electricity on tumble dryers when you have the sun?

Where I grew up you could put washing out but the items would be covered in bugs/allergens. Wasn't a common practice unless you like little black dead bugs all over it. Also not a fan of sandpaper bath towels.

My wife used to live there and constantly says the same thing 🤣

Look @twpeople.bsky.social 😁

i’ve recently moved from somewhere where there was no opportunity to hang the washing out to somewhere where there is. It’s great, except I have now been re-introduced to the joys of “birds shitting on the thing that you wanted to wear tomorrow”

Washing line fires did use to be a big problem in CA back in those days.

Up there with Michael Caine's Mum, visiting Hollywood: "Isn't it beautiful, all the hysteria growing up the walls?" "You never said a truer word, Mum."