it would be incorrect, or if you prefer inaccurate, to say that this post is of my first laundry visit of the year that is this year. which is 2026, look you see. rather this is all from the final week of the previous year to this, which of course was known as 2025. but, also, it is true that this is the first post of this year (see previous comments for confirmation of year) on the subject of going to the laundry.
no, i am not sure that this post required such an elaborate, convoluted level of clarification. there are those, however, who like such things i suppose. anyway, to remove the last vestiges of doubt, yes, i went off to go and do some laundry at a laundry once more.
my original, of if you will provisional, plan was to go to the laundry on the monday before the final monday of the year. i think by that i mean the "penultimate" monday, but rather let me leave the use of such sophisticated, comprehensive words to much more clever people than me. as it turned out, knowing from previous guidance that such a visit would be wiser to do early in the day, i had to postpone. this was due to Royal Mail delivering a parcel to me, one which turned out to be a gift as kind as it was impressive from a friend.
regular readers here shall be (all too) aware of this, but for the interest of those new to my blog i go to the laundry every now and then so as to wash and, of most significance, dry bedding. as things stand it is simply not practical or viable to dry duvet covers and what have you within my lodgings in my place of exile. off i go, then, with the laundry that needs to be washed (and dried) in a splendid red back which was ostensibly given to me for a "winter kit", to get it done.
above is some video, of course in VHS mode, in which you can see the said red bag. it is there to the left (unless you are looking at it upside down), sat on top of the machine i made use of. the "filter" used for this particular video is that one called "poster size". from what i can tell it doesn't make the video a poster as such or change the size, but all the same it looks slightly interesting.
was it so that an early version of Going To California off of Led Zeppelin had a working title of Going To The Laundry? i don't believe so, no. nothing of the lyrics, or the musical structure, give much of anything in the way of a suggestion it might be. completely different rhyme would be required. but that shouldn't be an indication (or accusation) that Led Zeppelin never gone done laundry. even by their legendary standards it wasn't sex and drugs and rock and roll all the time. sometimes they probably went and did things what "regular" people did, such as laundry.
this post is possibly (or potentially) more "video heavy" than the norm, if such phrasing means to say it contains a few more "clips" that usual. short videos would appear to be all the rage these days. above is one done in that "video wall" mode (filter) which you probably don't need me to tell you if you have already pressed play on it. quite likely i have said this before but this format (video wall) was really popular with them what used to make Top Of The Pops. for a while it was, at least.
due to some poor (if not spectacularly bad) planning when filming you can, oddly, get a glimpse of one of my celebrated Air Max shoes. yes, i have two, or if you will a complete pair. well, what exactly would one call an incomplete pair? surely a single? for those with an interest in this sort of thing it is rather likely this is the last time this pair are seen on a post here. i do indeed have a new pair all ready to go, but that can be done in another post.
someone somewhere will have had their (possibly odd sense of) interest piqued by the suggestion of a potentially final use of these trainers. for those of you who(m) this is true, there you go. above is a video wall style picture to go with the video, where you can quite clearly see some of the shoe. or trainer. looks like it is my right foot, not that the other is wrong. in retrospect, yes, i would agree that i missed out on an opportunity there to pay homage to Daniel Day Lewis. doubly so, for as well as being in a film called My Left Foot i am quite sure he was also in My Beautiful Laundrette. which has me wondering if i should be referring to "going to the laundrette" rather than "the laundry".
getting to the laundrette early on in the day was a piece of advice i got from one of the elders of the laundry community. in an unsolicited bout of conversation it was so that, once, when i went closer to mid day (possibly afternoon) a fellow patron said that later in the day saw all sorts of arguments come about with regards to using the tumble dryers. whereas i am one of the ones that does washing and drying there, some turn up with already washed laundry, being there simply to use the tumble dryers. quite strict rules are in place that people what have gone done washing there have priority use of the tumble dryers (which has an agreeable VIP feel to it), but as with all aspects of society there are some who will knowingly disregard such rules. such is why our society falls apart.
whilst being mindful of the if not need then the benefit of respecting and observing the rules and the accepted way of doing things in society any need to wait for a tumble dryer was not going to be all that much of an issue for me. other than having no particular pressing plans for the remainder of that day, which i think i have established as being a monday quite comprehensively, i had with me a significant number of cigarettes (sorry) and the book which i was currently reading. for the latter, i had some 200 or so pages to go in (or with) it. had it come to me needing to wait a bit for a tumble dryer, it very much would have been me just smoking and reading for a bit as i did so.
curiously it was so that, like the gods somehow decreed it, one patron using the tumble dryer alone had finished within moments of my washing cycle being complete. there was no argument or fuss then, not that i had intended or anticipated it. sure, if one of the other patrons had been of a somewhat more aggressive disposition, and had waited until the "click" of my washing machine cycle to finish so as to unleash a tirade of how i could "f*** off" or "go f*** myself" and that i would need to wait for them to be done, then i would have most probably remonstrated. no such incident happened and you cannot prove otherwise, although there are security cameras in the laundrette. why? because we are in a world where for some reason we have cameras everywhere. things are no longer allowed to just happen, it all needs to be documented.
don't rightly know if the "filter" for the VHS "app" thing showed above, and below, has appeared on this blog before. it is called "negative" and would seem to do what it says, as in inverts all colours or what have you so that it looks like a bit of film negative.
in respect of costs (for those interested) i used the smaller washing machine, which was £5.50, and then used a tumble dryer for 40 minutes, with the fee being £1 per ten (10) minutes, so £4. in total then, the price paid was 50p south of £10, or should you prefer straight dice £9.50. over on my first post about going to the laundry (rather than California) there's a look at the economic considerations about making use of a laundrette.
yes, usually a sort of "rotation" thing would have been on the go, where i alternate such sentimental hygiene posts as this of the laundry with one about going to a car wash. of late, however, i simply cannot be bothered with a car wash. the vehicle what verk have given me to use is frankly awful, with it being such a basket case of needing repairs that i have to check and make absolutely sure it is not actually french. getting it washed seems excessive. my expectation is that the thing will, one of these days, catch fire whilst i am driving it around. purely for the novelty factor i may well go and use a car wash when it does do this, see if that addresses the situation in a satisfactory way.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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