Yes please, do tell @MewithME , also in the market for a new washing machine soon. I hope our Beko hasn't shaken itself to bits before then. It's a goldilocks machine and objects if the load is too heavy or too light. 11kg sounds good for bedding. Fingers crossed it makes your life easier.
@danglethedingle yes washing machines used to last forever! My mum had a twintub and the kitchen was pretty well unusable on a Monday because it had to be pulled out and blocked access to the cooker etc. This partly explains why on Monday we always had rissoles for tea. i.e. leftover Sunday roast minced up with onion, mashed potato, and some egg to bind.....always fried in dripping... yum.
(for anybody young on the thread 😂)
If there was no leftover meat we had bubble and sqeak. Five children, we lived on leftovers!
My grandmother had a washhouse in the back yard and everything got put in a big boiler, with a wooden thing like a milking stool on a long handle to bash it about. When I was at infant school the teacher asked me what was my favourite thing to do, and apparently I said "Working the dolly tub", which my Mum thought was hilarious! I don't think I was allowed near the mangle though.
Times have changed!