When you have a lot of socks to wash and dry....

I could never bring myself to put socks in a tumble dryer, it ruins them! I prefer bamboo socks anyway and they are not tumble-dryable.

Really? DD has some bamboo nappies and they are tumble-dryable.

What are bamboo socks?

Socks made of thread which is made of bamboo.

Viscose is made of wood pulp.

Many years ago I once found a sock of DS's and of DH's deep in the hedge when I was cutting it. I assumed they were eloping.

I was baffled FlicketyB by your eloping remark until I realised you were referring to the socks! Did you insist on reuniting them with their respective partners?

The sock, Flickety clearly didn't want to be flyped. Sounds uncomfortable.

Actually it was the knickers I found in the hedge that real surprised me. They did not belong to anyone in my family.

It was probably entirely coincidental that we lived on a busy route between the local university and the halls of residence. Although as our hedge was fronted by iron railings I would have thought the Halls of residence would have provided more comfort.

My family, including OH (now ex), used to get back their clothes the same way they discarded them on the floor, whether inside out or half and half. However, it was never mentioned, so they either didn't notice or were scared I would refuse to wash their stuff if they complained. When they were old enough I gave each one a basket for doing their own ironing.

When my DD's reached early teens I got fed up listening to, Mum, where is my, whatever item of clothing, which I had freshly ironed and hung up, only to find it, tried on,then discarded in a heap.

The nagging at them was getting me nowhere so I decided to show them how to operate the washing machine and let them loose with the iron. Just bit my tongue instead of saying, are you quite happy to go out with your jumper not ironed?

Now I can't help smirking when I hear DD1 say to her DD1, excuse me! would you hang that up please.

How do you pronounce flype Does it rhyme with Skype or is it pronounced flip ?

yogagran it rhymes with Skype