Thursday, July 26, 2007

Backyard clothes line

From Melbourne Today
Photo courtesy of Cath Blamey

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice photograph.

Someone has figured out that baby clothes require lots of work too.

The clothes line (our term) holds all sorts of clothes and among them men and women's underwear. When I was a boy, during World War II, the ladies would hang the underwear behind the first clothes line that faced public views.

So you might have the first line filled with table cloth and bed sheets. The next line would have the underwear so nobody passing by could see them. I always thought it unusual.

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NorthBayPhoto said...

Nice photo.

In some parts of Ontario, some developers have passed convenants and restrictions to ban backyard clothesline. You would figure with all the talk about greenhouse effect and run-away energy prices/concerns that developers and town councils would start to allow clothes lines again.

Anonymous said...

But thatv is no ordinary clothesline...that's a true blue aussie institution of the Hills Hoist!