The sun is out!!

So today the sun is shining... and I'd already psyched myself up to be inside doing laundry and cleaning up all day. Sheesh. Luckily I'm meeting Jen in town for coffee later. I do need to get out of the house and out of my PJ's. I have 5 loads of laundry to do (the washers over here are very small) and I'll be lucky to get 3 of them done today. I've got a washer/dryer: one unit which washes and dries the clothes. For some reason though, it decides that it's ok to take an hour and a half to just do the wash cycle and that 3 and a half to four hours is perfectly normal for a dry cycle. So a single load of laundry can take up to six hours sometimes! It's not just the washer/dryers either. Steve's mum's washer unit takes over 2 hours sometimes to wash a load of laundry. Two hours!!! Boy do I miss the days of a 22 minute wash cycle and a 45 minute dry. Clothes done in an hour and you don't have to iron every single little thing. Seriously, everything comes out wrinkled here, unless you hang it out on the line, but then you've got to wait for nice weather (come on, this is England, how often do we get that?) and unless the conditions are just right - sunny and breezy - you end up with crispy clothes. No one likes to put on a pair of crunchy jeans. Not that it matters anyway; there's no line in my garden, and there's not really an easy way to hang one either.

Anyway, I thought I'd just throw up a quick rant for everyone. I'm not quite sure how often I'll be posting on here. Life has been bashing me up a bit lately. I'll try to send you some little quirks every once in a while. For now, check out this site for some really gross/weird/nauseating food concoctions.