Clothesline - Blog Posts

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I feel bad for the people who don’t have clothes lines. They have never felt a wash basket dig on the side of their hip as they walk across the ground. They’ve never experienced matching clothes pegs to your fabrics or hiding between the sheets to get to the wire in the next row and feeling the coolness of the wet fabric a wonderful reprieve from the sunlight beating down on their neck. They’ve never taken their clothes off the line and felt the warmth and natural ironing of fresh shirts and socks kissed by the sun. They’ve never had to run outside to pull down their laundry having pegs fly everywhere in their rush to get their clothes inside before the rain completely drenched them. They have never stood outside listening to the birds sing and cicadas chatter while the wind rustle the gum trees stood tall in their backyard with a slight whisper of neighbours having drinks or the occasional yell of children at the park just down the road.