Yes I have always done it that way Phyl

Just goes to show we are never to old to learn as I just found it very recently Jane.

How is your car going?

CAr going great Phyl--doing another trip very soon--getting great mileage too, thanks

Good idea.  You would have to fold returns on modern parallel lines because there is no depth.  The plastic lines on some might not support the weight either.

Amazing how the rotary hoist, the sliced bread invention for drying laundry, has been discarded by landscape fashion.

It was an Australian invention by Lance Hill from Adelaide who invented it post-WW2 for his wife. 

Yes so many have got rid of the Hills--not me--it is just great and used every day here--don't what I would do without it--hate those plastic lines though--I have the wire lines

It was a very clever invention.

The replacement wire sold by hardware chains is rubbish too.  It must come from China.  The thicker galvanised Australian wire made the pegs work, was stronger and lasted forty+ years.

I still have one put away in a shed, but it is the smaller diameter version.  Still has the robust gears and arms though.  Very good order after 30+ years operation on the coast.  Saved it from pesky women who declared it fashion challenged (or words to that effect).  No wonder fashion designers can get away with planned redundancy and flimsy, poorly designed products.  Change for change sake.

I still have my Hills Hoist firmly concreted in, There has been three generations who have had rides on it, our children, grand children and now grt grandchildren, from a swing seat to just hanging on, I even had a swing while it was spinning, left it with a tilt which is still there. Still the original wire. The grip on the winding handle came off, so it just sits there on it loose. Even living by the sea it has no rust. was well made.

I know I have told the story before how I always use the VERY STRONG PEGS (last and last)in Yellow and Green. Around $4.50 for a dozen.

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When we came here a lovely man was on the other side of the fence when Peter yelled at me I had inadvertantly used  a white peg (there are sometimes a couple of those amongst the 12 but I use those on a separate little line for quick drying stuff sometimes so our line ALWAYS has green and gold pegs on it lol.

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We overheard the man telling his wife how the new neighbour next door yelled at his wife for using the wrong coloured peg. Since then he knows it was just a bit of fun although now 6 years along, he still comments on the always green and gold pegs on the line and add my ideocyncracy to the fact  it always has to be the same coloured peg to a garment and never two garments to a peg and er all the same coloured pegs to a side of the line  and I  think he really still thinks I am a bit of a nut lol but hey I know I am, so nothing new.

Phyl I use what ever peg comes to hand and I also leave them on the line because it is easier that way--if they break I chuck em out

Plastic pegs break, wooden are good and cheap,  as I'm lazy , I leave them on the line.

We are a dying breed Jane and Seth as most do not leave their pegs on the line but hey mine look SO pretty all green and gold twirling in the breeze. lol even with no washing on the line.

Yes, I still have my Hills Hoist and they are very versatile too.  When the contractors were knocking down all the old Trust homes here I managed to get one nice chap to leave me one of the hoists instead of smashing them up and I got hubby to put 4 poles in the ground and sat the top piece on them, made a shadecloth top to go on it and put shadecloth around the poles and I now have a great greenhouse as well.

There's an old saying necessity is the mother of invention and I sure needed a greenhouse.  Cost me next to nothing as the poles were left from our old verandah when we put a new verandah roof on.    It's a large sized one as well.

Also learnt something from a chef yesterday and that is that when you store eggs you always store them pointy end down.   They keep much longer that way and the yolk stays in the middle when you break them into the pan.

So there you go folks

Lovely to see you Sandy. Love all the clever bits you send me.

Hope your daughter is going strong and your beautiful grand daughter intriguing you all.

What a great tip re the eggs. Something else I have learned.

hugs

Phyl.