My new house has NO draining board <wail....!>

[MortaIWombat]

So the place we're supposed to be moving into in January has varnished wooden worktops and a daft butler's sink, but nowhere to drain stuff that's been washed up, just flat wooden surfaces. I'm used to a nice metal sink with built in draining board to put my draining rack on.
What does one DO with clean dishes? Am I missing something?
(And no, drying and putting straight away is not an option).

Please help!

we have a belfast sink with wooden worktops and no draining board - i didn't want one. we have a dishwasher and use one of the trays from lakeland if we need to wash anything up by hand, it lives in the cupboard underneath the sink when not in use.

my kitchen was definitely designed to be used though! i cook a lot and make pretty much everything from scratch - creating loads of washing up. just didn't like the look of a draining board in my kitchen, it looks much better without.

Ceres you are quite quite mad.

awesomewellies - quite possibly! my kitchen looks great though!

I disagree on the tumble dryer thing i use mine all the time and we checked with the electric company that we only use an extra £1.50 a week using it.

my sister moved into a small flat with a TINY kitchen, the tenniest tiniest round sink ever and no draining board

she gave up on of her preciouse cupboards and installed a dishwasher

on the yacht we had no draining board.... i found a tray with a super absorbant cloth thing underneath worked really really well, so long as you wring it dry quickly and are prepared to wash them on hot regularly....
(other wise they start to smell a bit gross and i have a thing against cloths that smell ewww)

(or as we did use them for about a week then chuck them, but that might get expensive if doing that all the time)

Our old house had a belfast sink and no drainer and it nearly drove me demented. We got a dishwasher in the end as I couldn't stand any of the supposed 'solutions'.

I believe you can get a surface-top ceramic drainer (so like a plastic tray except not plastic and probably not as given to collapsing when you put a plate or anything else vaguely large on it) but they were really expensive so we didn't bother in the end. We now rent out that house but I am reasonably confident it's not the one you're moving into as our tenant has been in there for years (and I pray she never moves out, she keeps the place far nicer than we ever did). I would never ever have a belfast sink again - all they do is give you a bad back, you need a rubber mat in the bottom to stop you breaking everything you wash and of course the drainer thing is the last straw.

Rant over!