| The canny Scot is an international image, which has | | | | However a solution often brings with it a new set of |
| been carried to all corners of the globe by Scots | | | | problems, such as last item drying – the sensor |
| emigrants who left their nature land for foreign | | | | tumble dryer will only shut down when the last item |
| shores, adventure and to seek their fortune. | | | | is dry so items that have already dried during the |
| Doing the washing has never been a favourite chore | | | | cycle will simply be dried over and over again. Fluff |
| and the history books give little mention as to the | | | | collection – fluff is really the loose fibres of a |
| habits of William Wallace or Robert the Bruce except | | | | garment. The violent action of the tumble dryer |
| they seemed famed for fighting battles. In fact | | | | throws the clothes around damaging the fibres and |
| nothing in our Scottish history books refers to the | | | | reducing the life of each garment. |
| washing lines that came to be a feature of every | | | | Hanging clothes on a natural drying washing line or |
| back garden throughout the land. | | | | clotheshorses of various kinds does not have any of |
| These accompanied by the wooden folding clothes | | | | these problems. Clothes dry at their own pace each |
| horses combined to provide a fall back eco friendly | | | | item may be removed from the clothes drying rack |
| natural drying system in times of wet or stormy | | | | when dry without waiting for the whole load to dry. |
| weather or during a dull grey winter where any damp | | | | Of course drying racks do not attack or bash the |
| clothes hung on the line soon froze into a fixed | | | | laundry but simply provide a rack for it to lie on or |
| display of frozen scarecrows clothes. | | | | hang from to allow the natural drying cycle to take |
| In a world of costly energy where every Scots | | | | place. |
| household is fully aware of the monthly bills the | | | | I can hardly fail to admire the old Scots housewife |
| drying costs are under close examination "How on | | | | with her natural drying system of washing lines and |
| earth did we run up a bill so high?" is a regular | | | | clothes horses, and wonder at how things go in |
| question and often the culprit turns out to be the | | | | cycles taking us back to the natural way. Maybe if |
| tumble dryer. When invented it seemed to be the | | | | we all grow to love this natural way we can all make |
| answer to everyone's needs. An instant solution to | | | | a difference. |
| drying the laundry. | | | | |
