Yesterday, the girls decided that it would be nice to have an evening snooze on Mum & Dad's bed........regardless of the fact that they had just been out for a walk.   Our white duvet cover finished up with a nice pattern of paw prints and muddy "side prints" in the middle.

Anyway, changed the bed, washed my nice white duvet set and, for once, hung it out on the line (first time for ages that the weather has looked promising enough & I far prefer line dried bedlinen particularly).    I'm busy in the kitchen, painting the kitchen dresser, dogs outside and two black dogs are playing nicely.....with my duvet cover

Its now back in the washing machine again - I've shouted at the girls and they KNOW they are in disgrace.....but I don't know whether the duvet cover will ever look the same again :(

Girls now in the utility room - watching the washing going round.

As a PS - I found myself using one of my mum's saying to us when we were little ........one of these days, I'll SWING for you lot! :D

I bet when they finished putting the dejected look on they went away and sniggered as they exchanged swinging and washing on a line puns :p

>Girls now in the utility room - watching the washing going round

Can''t help but imagine conversation along the lines of "Nice of her to wash it ready for next time"...:D

Hi

Well serves you right imagine having anything white in the house with dogs lol

My bedding is dark blue so not to show the paw marks, but not to dark so it wont show every white hair. terrible when you have to concider these things before buying, Then we decorated the bedroom accordingly lol.

I will soon be needing to buy a new three peice suit and will have to think along the same lines again :o))

As for hanging it out, given up on that. I have to make sure I dont put white shirts or black trousers on the radators the dogs brush past. :rolleyes:

Wendy

>Well serves you right imagine having anything white in the house with dogs lol

I'm sure that's a great comfort! But I'm still not buying into the "mud is the new black" theory as far as my bedding is concerned either!  :D :D

I can definately sympathise - i have a white bed spread and when i've bathed the dogs if i dont get hold of them quick enough they have the zoomies all around the house jumping on and off my bed like lunatics!!
My white bed spread is now a greyish colour from all of the washing! :)

Snigger snigger, my dog is not allowed on beds :D

Funny.. i have white tablecloths, white and white cushions on dining room chairs.  My heart skips a beat anytime my dog walks past the table.

Oh Margot ,
That just reminded me of our Inga the swinger whe used to swing from the clothes on the washing line like a trapeze artist what a norty puppy she was and she,s still a nutter at nine years old, what one would call a "fun" dog for want of another word for it:rolleyes::rolleyes:.
I remember a prospective puppy buyer coming to look at my last remaining puppy which was Ingas sister the two pups just happened to be swinging on my curtains as the lady walked in when she asked why I had decided to keep Inga I had to tell the truth and say  "she,s a witch " thats why her registered name is Spellmaker. I thought it best to keep the norty one rather than pass her on to a new GSD owner to cope with she took her lovely little sister who is and always has been an absolute angel despite all Ingas efforts to lead her astray.
Hope its trird time lucky with the beadspread.

Can't stop laughing,the same thing happened to me yesterday,took a load of washing out the kids bed linen to hang on the line and one lovely dirty little puppy jumped straight in the washing basket,it was covered in lovely little muddy paw marks!

I have decided:  I want a PROPER washing line - one that has pulleys so that I can haul the washing sky-high, so that it catches the wind properly and dries in no time - AND, most important - will be too high for even Long-leggety Missie to jump for :D

Margot

I miss my long line. If I didn't have such a silly garden I would have a long line again. Everything dried so quickly and I used to love seeing all the linen flapping in the breeze.  Feel like I am definitely becoming my mother :rolleyes:

An ex neighbour had a rotary washing line. I was in the front room one day and happened to see her washing spinning around and around. Curious, because it wasn't very windy, I went and looked over the fence to see her lab puppy holding on to one of her husbands shirts quite happily running round :D :D