The Net Dog Blog

Anyone who knows me very well knows that I usually take one evening a week to do my laundry. It guarantees me one evening to just sit around and catch up on my television. Now that I'm in London, all that has changed. For one, there's not enough on the television to justify spending a whole evening catching up on my favorite shows. Secondly, there is no way that I could do all of our combined laundry in one evening.
I've mentioned the washer/dryer combination machine before but I'm not sure if I've told you how long it takes to do a load of laundry. From start to finish, it takes about 4 hours! And that's with the clothes not being completely dried. At any given time you will find garments hanging about the flat drying. Sometimes I think it would be quicker for me to beat the clothes with a rock in the river to clean them.
I had thought about maybe taking all the laundry to a coin laundromat (or launderette as I think they call it here) but it's too far to walk with all the laundry. We do take our dress shirts to a dry cleaner to have them washed, starched, and folded for us. This is done mainly because it's easier for Blake to pack them for his business trips and because they can be stacked at the top of the closet instead of hanging them and taking up valuable closet space.
Hopefully I can get caught up enough on the laundry to actually go out and explore London this week while Blake is away. Oh and while I'm out I need to pick up some laundry detergent and fabric softener.