I was going to get Steve one of those but it's at the bottom of an ever growing list...along with my tattoo that I have been waiting 18months for...I will get it at some point. Don't think I would cope with no tumble dryer...I very rarely hang stuff outside

I never hang stuff out. Out of the washer, into the dryer. Out of the dryer and into the wardrobe.

Anything that does the housework for me has my vote every time

I love hanging things on the line.........................
my aunt has a heated airer as no where to hang washing in the flat she likes it for underwear/underskirts etc and it works well.

A good friend of mine is deaf and uses sign language when he had to answer questions asked by benefits officials he used sign language to answer them. He told his Mom and now his brother not to answer when they accompany him. Oddly after 4 meeting they always "find" an interpreter for him now.

Without an interpreter, Kaz, he wouldn't know what questions were being asked. He can't lipread and his reading skills leave a heck of a lot to be desired. He does well if things are really simplified into easy words, but as an example today, he bought something, I said he'd got a bargain and then spent the next five minutes explaining what bargain meant in different ways

God love him.

Noel can lip read - very well he has always been deaf and has 5 older sisters (of whom one is my best friend from when we were 5) so he learnt fast or we would dress him up/paint his nails unless he said No really quick. His real name is David but the family call him Noel as he was born on Christmas eve

Gary's been deaf from birth, but he could never get the hang of lipreading. When he was 7 the deaf school he attended moved him over to signs. They tried to avoid as much as possible because Manchester University came up with the idea that deaf people should use sign language so they could better fit into society. Great for those who could get to grips with lipreading but it was causing so many difficulties for those who couldn't that they had to introduce it in those cases