Canny Granny

Posts Tagged ‘safety pins’

When I went to hang up my twinset and smalls today, I discovered all of my clothes pegs had vanished from the line. Gone! Completely gone!

Where do they go to? Perhaps they’ve teamed up with the safety pins and taken off for a dirty weekend. Or are the possums stealing them?

So I hiked off to buy more pegs only to find out that I simply cannot get wooden clothes pegs. Not for love or money. I went to three shops and all that was on offer were plastic things, the ones that snap if you hang out your bed socks.

Wooden pegs, on the other hand, are more durable. Once upon a time when it used to rain more than six days a year, you could get rusty stripes from the spring in the pegs, but these days you can leave your washing out for a month to get sun bleached if you’re too lazy to bring it in.

Doesn’t anyone make wooden pegs anymore? The ancient craft must have been superseded by the plastic stamping press and the venerable peg-makers gone the way of the Felt Hatters and the Lamplighters.

Gypsies used to make them once, things of beauty that were handed down from mother to daughter, but it looks like China has cornered the market now.