Friday 27 March 2015

The power of the sun

We all love a bit if sun, especially the British as we get so damned little of it. It's really bringing my seedlings on in the greenhouse, my aubergines look fantastic as do my chilli's. I bought some seed from the real seed company this year as I'm trying to get up a collection of heirloom seeds that I can use each year. Anyway that's straying from my point. 

We got some real sun complete with blue sky today. Why so much joy you ask? I managed to get the nappies on the line bleaching in the sun. They've gone from a murky yellow to almost white. This is the same reason I have white towels, they don't fade, you can wash them on a hot cycle with bleach if necessary and on a sunny day you can bleach them in the rays. It's the first time all winter my wash has coincided with sun.

I always liked the idea of washable nappies, they're environmentally friendly, especially if you use them through more than one child. They'll do both of mine and I'll sell them afterwards (yes there's a market in used nappies). They look really similar to normal disposables but are prettier and there's not all the weird folding and pinning them like when I was a baby.
Once you've bought them you're done so it's economical and I always know no matter what happens the baby has nappies (snowed in, ran out of money, post apocalypse)!


7 comments:

  1. I like a clothes line but we have so many pines that pollen gets all over everything much of the year.

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    1. We're lucky we don't have that problem, the line's a Godsend in summer.

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  2. I love the photo: sun, laundry on the line. a glass house, and a chicken! I used cloth diapers for my two but they didn't look like disposables. Glad to hear they've improved in design!

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    1. Thanks Leigh, a chicken always makes a mediocre picture better!

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  3. What chilli seeds did you get? I'll bring you some of my cherry bomb seeds to grow if you like?

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  4. I've got a few going but I'm trying Aji lemon drop for the first time. You can have some seeds or seedlings if you like? I'll give a cherry bomb chilli a try, how exciting!

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  5. I missed this blog when you posted in up.......but oh that line of little things for little people! I have done that part of my life's journey but it did go so fast, seeming to be over and done with in a whisper of a moment rather than the actual years it lasted! No washing machine then, just a Birco boiler and the rest washed by hand. At the arrival of my second child I upgraded to a twin tub washing machine. It was only after my third arrived that I automatic washing machines arrived!

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