brooms and outdoor laundry lines

(add photo of wooden pegs)

Beautiful day, I washed some laundry (and by washed, I mean by hand) then hung it out to dry. Differences in laundry habits by country varies greatly, so I wanted to post a few photos of what I mean by ´doing laundry´here. The laundry line I use is a twirly square metal thing tied with numerous straight lines of rope which the clothes get attached to. I use old-fashioned wooden ´ dolly´ or ´gypsy´ pegs, which I´ll also post a photo so you can see what I mean! I´d grown up with different laundry lines, usually straight lines tied from between two wooden pegged logs, trees or branches, or sometimes metal poles or wooden gazebo posts. The first time I saw these twirly garden lines, square metal with all these lines, was when I lived in the UK. I think they´re charming, and have always loved hanging out my laundry, and prefer using wooden pegs or similar. Plastic ones are usually used I suppose, but I found my wooden ones at one of the local charity shops, after searching for ages:).

AND * I found a BROOM * a few weeks ago! I´m so very excited about the broom. You see, they don´t have American garden shovels or American brooms outside the US (from my experience living in numerous places abroad), they´ve only got very short  plastic hand whisk type broom & dust pans, or the hoover/vacs.

I´m a bit known at the charity shops I visit, as I usually only buy wooden, natural materials, and usually buy old-fashioned things, usually kitchen items, for the most part,). They´re so sweet saving things for me, til I come in next visit. They´d saved the broom, and when I arrived the other week, taking off my huge down ski jacket, undoing my woolen scarves, taking off my woolen mittens and woolen gloves, shaking out of all my numerous winter clothes, which were a bit damp from melted snow, the first thing after greetings, one of the ladies smiled and walked me over to the back of the place to show me the * broom * they had gotten in! I´d been searching for ages! They just don´t have brooms here. This one was old sorghum type broom--wooden, dark mahogany stained, with handmade/hand-tied bristles, long handle. PERFeCT! I nearly kissed her on the cheek,)  She charged me the equivalent of two dollars. (Obviously m the only crazy American woman who would come in an actually buy something like a broom haha! Not too many here you could pawn off a broom to! or pay them to take haha)