I have two tabby cats. One’s all brown/grey (that’s Zak), the other has white patches (that’s Zoe, his sister). When I’m wearing black (which is most days to work), you can rely on Zoe sitting on me, leaving her white fur everywhere. Whenever I am wearing a lighter colour, either Zak decides to sit on me, or both of them go and get properly covered in mud or sand and then leave all that dirt on me.

It’s like birds. When I had a white car, all the birds with the dark poo decided my car made a great target. Now I have a dark red car, the birds with the white poo love my car most.

Why??? :-)

The washing process isn’t really what wears clothing out it’s the drying process or should I say the clothes dryer. Water acts like a lubricant in the washer but the heat and tumbling action of the dry is extremely hard on clothing. That lint in the vent is your clothes falling apart. Those of you old enough who had parents or grandparents that lined dried everthing did you noticed their towels lasted for ever? and your lucky if they last a year. Yep it’s the dryer.
The clothes I want to last only spend about 10 minutes in the dryer and then hung on hangers to air dry. I have polo type shirts that are 4 years old and are still in great shape and I wear to my office job regularly.
Just a small tip from someone who was raised by the Scrubby Dutch.

I always check out the washing instructions before buying – last summer The Times did a feature on cothes to wear at festivals (the mud, tents and music variety). There was a lovely lovely dress, even looked cute with wellies or worn over jeans – I checked the price, not too bad, I thought I’d treat myself – oops – dry clean only! Mmmm – very suitable for sitting around in a muddy field in an English summer!

Luckily. around here you can go to the local shops wearing mud-splattered clothes. If you dress up clean and smart the post mistress will say “Going somewhere?”

Hope you had a great birthday!

Celia