Wet washing whiff

When I open the front door when I get home I smell a damp, wet washing smell.

It's not warm enough for the clothes, including my kayak gear, to dry quickly. It's too mild to have heating on. So everything is taking ages to dry.

Even having a window open these last few mild nights hasn't helped - the damp night air might be damper than the air inside the house!

A colleague with 2 children is having his radiators on just to dry the clothing. I think if I didn't live on my own I would have to get a washer/dryer however ungreen that would be.

And the stuff that needs to be hand washed is building up, because there is rarely a gap on the rack over the bath between one lot of kayak gear going and the next arriving. It's a very narrow bath so the tent shaped rack won't stay up, I have just have it folded flat across the bath, so it doesn't fit much. And there is limited space to put that stuff that doesn't need to be over the bath but is still damp.

I might have said this on this blog before: my teenage self would have been amazed if she had realised how much time I would spend worrying about getting clothes dry!