On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:14:29 +0200, BrritSki 
wrote:
>
>PS  A friend of my MiL's was horrified when she saw tea-towels going in 
>with undies and everything else.
>We wondered what she thought happened in her washing machine. Do her 
>knickers come out still contaminated in some way ?

We wouldn't wash them together either, but we separate our washing by
material, not colour, and while most of it goes in as acrylics at 30
or 40, the towels and tea towels go in as cottons at 60

lff

Linda Fox  writes:
>We wouldn't wash them together either, but we separate our washing by
>material, not colour, and while most of it goes in as acrylics at 30
>or 40, the towels and tea towels go in as cottons at 60

oh.  i felt yesterday that i was being rather naughty doing a towel
wash at 60 (celcius, that is).

i feel a lot better now that i know that we always do.

or something.

[disappears up ...]
-- 
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge

On 17 Jun 2008 21:41:15 GMT, rf10@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
wrote:

>[disappears up ...]

<looks around everywhere in wild alarm>

Where'd he go? Up where? Or up what? Will I need some kind of giant
crochet hook to get him down again?

lff

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:45:23 +0100, chris mcmillan
 wrote:

>Gizmo, Gizmo.  Come out.  You're needed to go *up* and find your 
>Robin-master.

She stopped being Gizmo when she came to us. She's called Ghislaine
for "long", but it's always Gizzy, that's what she's registered as
with the vet. She's far too girly and flirtatious to be a gizmo.

lff