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My husband is lovely but sometimes he doesn't think things through.
It was a beautiful sunny day on Friday so I was doing lots of laundry. Our rotary clothes line is fixed in the lawn with a ground spike. After being OK for around 20 years it has slowly tilted to one side over the past few months...I think ants have been making a nest near it. My husband decided to be 'helpful' and move it BUT the ground spike and post had corroded together so the whole thing came out in one piece. This meant he couldn't push the spike very far into the lawn as it was too tall to be able to apply force to the top. So the whole thing leant even more than before.
Luckily the first 2 laundry loads had dried but there was a large pair of curtains still needing to be hung up. I was a bit cross because I'd gone from having a wonky but useable clothes line to one that looked very unstable. I wished he'd waited until I'd finished the laundry before deciding to "mend" it. I pegged the curtains on the line and crossed my fingers...Although it didn't fall over it did tilt a bit more but the curtains were mostly dry when I decided I should bring them in when the sun was going down. I now have a brand new rotary clothes line so the stress of my husband's "fixing" the old one was worth it.
It was a beautiful sunny day on Friday so I was doing lots of laundry. Our rotary clothes line is fixed in the lawn with a ground spike. After being OK for around 20 years it has slowly tilted to one side over the past few months...I think ants have been making a nest near it. My husband decided to be 'helpful' and move it BUT the ground spike and post had corroded together so the whole thing came out in one piece. This meant he couldn't push the spike very far into the lawn as it was too tall to be able to apply force to the top. So the whole thing leant even more than before.
Luckily the first 2 laundry loads had dried but there was a large pair of curtains still needing to be hung up. I was a bit cross because I'd gone from having a wonky but useable clothes line to one that looked very unstable. I wished he'd waited until I'd finished the laundry before deciding to "mend" it. I pegged the curtains on the line and crossed my fingers...Although it didn't fall over it did tilt a bit more but the curtains were mostly dry when I decided I should bring them in when the sun was going down. I now have a brand new rotary clothes line so the stress of my husband's "fixing" the old one was worth it.
09-Apr-2023 23:14:53
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