I cannot believe that people would pay for electricity to run a dryer rather than have a washing line. I have never had a dryer. Ever since I bought my own house, I have put up an overhead airer, and as heat rises, the laundry dries up there, if it cannot go out on the line.

Remember Billy Connolly talking about David Hockney's mother visiting him in LA? She looked down the canyon on a beautiful clear blue day and commented that it was such a shame that no one had a line of washing out.