well, as kind of vaguely suggested in the most recent post what i gone done about a car wash i suspect a post on the subject of going to a laundry is "due" here. and so here it is, look you see. not that there is all that much what comes to mind to write of, what with the first post i did on this kind of thing being reasonably comprehensive. and yes, i note in that post i wasn't sure exactly how frequently i would be heading to a laundry. often enough to do posts here on a regular basis (or fairly regular) it turns out, although no, that's not the reason for going.
to recap for regulars, or to tell for those new here (welcome), it is so that in my lodgings in my place of exile that drying bedding (after washing it) isn't really practical. nowhere to hang it, as it were. as an agreement i had in place with certain people i know to do it for me apparently got cancelled if not denied ever existing i simply took to using a local laundry service (a laundrette, if you will) to do it every now and then.
by chance rather than choice i had a (relatively) free weekend on (or during) which i had the time to go up to the laundry. it was so that both of my (known) children were not going to be around on the day i would usually visit them, so a rare (and sad) instance of not seeing them for a week. so up i got early one day, mindful of the politics i was warned of concerning later visits, and off i went.
for some needless padding with words here, yes, there is a video, and also yes, it is below. i went right ahead and use that "VHS" app what i have to make the video that you are most certainly welcome to watch. with no real reason for it other than just because, i did indeed use that "video wall" filter, or setting, or whatever the right term is.
as for the "politics" i mentioned earlier, well, on one later in the day visit to the laundry (i am not going to link to it, feel free to search it yourself) a fellow patron said that if you go later in the day then usually there's some drama around the tumble dryers. it is supposed to be that people (like moi) who(m) are there to use the washing machines get "first dibs" on the dryers, or priority use. however, human nature being what it is, some turn up just to use the dryers and disregard such guidelines. up to now no, i have not experienced this directly. perhaps on a future visit.
since i arrived not long after the laundry (or laundrette) opened i did have the place mostly to myself. actually entirely for a bit, as the proprietor felt he could trust me and, without a word, disappeared for half an hour or so. it was only after i had finished the washing part and commenced using one of the tumble dryers that someone else arrived. quite a nice lady, too, and we had a pleasant enough chat. she rather liked just watching the laundry whirling around, finding it soothing. i agreed, saying it was the same principle (principal?) as watching fish in a tank. also mentioned that i brought a book to read, which i did, and she said that she may do similar on her next visit.
costs for this visit? a neat £10, since prices have not, over the course of the year, increased. i used one of the smaller washing machines, which was £5.50, and then £4.50 was spent on 45 minutes of the tumble dryer. my suspicion is that i could have saved £1 on the tumble dryer, for sporadic checks gave every indication that 30 minutes or so was enough, but why not make sure, and besides i was enjoying the mixture of incidental conversation and reading.
echoing an earlier comment (just now) and going off to the laundry is a peculiarly if not singularly kind of therapeutic thing. it is rather nice, in this curious century, to have an instance where you are sat doing something and yet have no distractions. a moment to pause, if you will.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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