To love hanging the washing out in the middle of the night?

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Knowing it will be nearly dry by morning.
Both kids in bed, asleep.
Nobody mowing their lawns.
So quiet and peaceful.
Also, as I generally wear just a t-shirt, it gets a bit cold. And I know that I can jump straight into my bedto warm up.,

Pissing myself at "darked on"

morethanpotatoprints - If you live in the UK and north-east of a line from London to Holyhead then the forecast is for sun tomorrow morning, and a good night to hang washing up.

I really like the idea of washing drying on the line while I'm still snoozing in bed.

knittingdad

FGS don't bamboozle me with Geography.
We are NW, Greater manchester, not sure what relation that is to your coordinates
I'll give it a go though, I may even go out really late and see if I'm darked on

Lolling at getting some dark on faded black garments.

Yy to dew. Science, yo.

I couldn't do it, it'd give me flashbacks of the nights when DD had awful reflux and I would be washing and hanging clothes, towels, sheets all through the sodding night. My neighbours must have thought I had murdered DH in his sleep when I was outside weeping into my wet bedsheet.

Night time is the best smell though, not fusty at all, when DH walks a long way home after a v late shift his clothes smell all cold and fresh. Washing dried outside is like that but magnified.

I am loving getting your fading blacks 'darker on'!

HellKitty
Thanks MN, I now have a new phobia of being 'darked' on. And I don't know what that is
Me too

Chemenger I've been stung by a wasp in the dry washing too - the sly little bastards.

Vanjo? I guess what it means, but where on earth did the name come from?

at cooties. Just try hanging your washing out in Australis

Stepped on a slug doing this once. A well lit garden is a must!

I can't remember if it was my mum or my grandma that thought the night air was dirty because it was dark, so any washing accidentally left out over night had to be re-washed.

Not sure what is worse cremedecacao - the slime squelch of a slug or the crunch of snail shells [shudder]! Shoes are definite must when popping out into the garden at night I have learnt!

Just going out to hand out a load before bed, wish me luck as I brave being darked upon.

I love 'being darked on' I keep crying with laughter every time another person says it.

My washing is going to get 'darked on' tonight. I hung it out around 8pm and will leave it there until I can be arsed to get it tomorrow afternoon!
When it will be completely dry and ready to be ironed and put away before I go to work.

Darked on! Love this saying. Shall be using it from now on, as I hate leaving washing out overnight and DP thinks I'm bonkers. Now I have a reason to tell him why he has to get it in... In case it gets darked on. Sounds really serious!

Once I hung some washing out overnight and it got darked on. As I unpegged a t shirt the next day some strange yellow ectoplasm oozed from it. I looked down at my hand and they had grown gnarled and hairy. I ran indoors to look in the mirror and felt a cold hand on my shoulder and a witch appeared behind me. I won't be doing that again!

It was as bright as the middle if the day at 4.30am this morning. I could have got up, hung out the washing and cleaned the house from top to bottom without a single light on in the house. Very weird!!

Just hung mine out, the peg basket had been out all night and therefore darked on. Massive bright green long legged beasties in it

Fuck that in my knickers

Bugger. My washing has been doubly darked on, I forgot to bring it in & so it has had two nights out in the dark. Yikes!

My late gran, bless her, was convinced that washing left out over night would be taken over by evil spirits which lived at the bottom of the garden. Hence all washing left out would be put through a 90 degrees boil wash before being worn again!

Couldn't get cooties as we don't live in America ffs!
I love these short summer nights (sorry those with small dc) in my wilder days I used to love coming home as it was getting light.

What are all these spider infested laundry posts about? I have been pegging out my washing at night in the summer for yonks.
I have never had spiders or webs on any of it. I have lived in lots of different parts of the UK too,so it's not like I am in a spider free location.
I find I have webs on my empty line in the mornings (close to the washing line posts) if I have not had laundry on the line over night and am putting it out in the morning, but not if I have clothes on the line.
Not had foundry smell problems either. Although I only put out freshly washed laundry overnight and not leave stuff out from the day time - maybe that causes it?
I love line dried laundry.

I love it too, put some out at about 10.30 the other night, it was ready to come in, smelling fresh and spider free by 8.30 the next morning.

ha ha. Is a 90 degree boil wash what's needed to get rid of evil spirits?