ELO here too!!!!
As you may remember I do have a dishwasher but it's put on the back patio and just too much bother to fill a big bowl with the accumulated plates etc and trail it there, so only use it for Xmas ad the occasional Sunday lunch in winter. I did ask MrN several times to move it into my tiny kitchen but he c o c k e d a deafen!
Well I battled a tiget spider on my washing line this am, and I won!!!
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but they bite so one has to be careful!!
Have decided to boil all my white underclothes. Robi one of my pet hates is drying washing on an airer when I have so much land to use, I only did it when living in a flat in North London! so I solve the problem of discoloured undies by buying new ones from M&S every year, but I never throuw the old ones out (I hoard them as they used to be so precious over here and expensive!) so of course the new ones gets shoved to the back of the drawers (ha ha get the pun!) and I continue to wear the old ones, < note to self, never get run over when wearing old ones! >