We haven’t had a clothes dryer since moving to Scotland three and a half years ago. Today, everything changed. The magnitude of this event cannot be understated and must be remembered in the annals of time. We now have a magical drying machine. All is right with the world.

To date we’ve been hanging clothes around the house in racks like this.

We have a very small house so these clothes racks are omnipresent and, even if it takes (only) two days to dry a rack the next batch will be going up. They never leave.

But we’ve been secretly plotting and planning, converting our previously moldy shed to a powered-up utility room now equipped with not only a chest freezer (fridge space is precious in the UK, that’s for another day) but now, NOW we have a vented dryer installed by yours truly!

It was as easy a DIY project as they come, even for me, but still I’m proud of getting this bad boy online.

We’ve won 2023. Dry clothes are here!!!!!