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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Good fences, great tradition

Traveling to the Cape last weekend, it struck me again that Sunday is wash day in rural Southern Africa. I managed a few drive-by photos of laundry on the lines as we passed the houses along the way. 
The house on the left has a baby and a satelite dish to watch cable TV; the house on the right had only a pair of trousers on the line.  A little boy stands in the shadows watching the cars go by
This house has school children: yellow and maroon school uniforms bunched onto the line! (The fence looks rather rickety as well) 
The fence here is acting as a wash line - for MANY clothes!

I'm linking to Good Fences Thursday here

Here's wishing you all a wonderful day! 






10 comments:

  1. In some suburbs in Brussels on sunny Sundays there is also laundry hanging on balconies or in the gardens !

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  2. I assume Sunday is a day off work and laundry must be done on their day off work. The yellow is bright for a school uniform. Great drive by shots. Happy Thursday, enjoy your day!

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  3. so now you have become a 'fence reader' and a fine job you did. I did not realize it, but in the old days before dryers, we could have told who did what by the laundry on the line... great post, i enjoyed it...the last one may have a very large family living there.

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  4. a slice of real life. i linked you, jo.

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  5. Thank you so much for this interesting photos. I love your way of writing about this. http://momentsfrozentime.blogspot.nl/

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  6. Yep, I saw a few of those bedspring fences in my youth!

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  7. I always enjoy seeing laundry hanging out on the lines. Such a common site in some parts of the world, while in areas of the U.S., it's actually against the law!

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  8. Great pieces of real life, I like this series.

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  9. Well this makes one appreciate life differently. I can see where a fence would make a good clothes line though.

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