Hurricane Proof Pegs

With the electricity having been out for the past few days and a lazy weekend of not doing very much my pile of washing quickly escalated into a mountain and threatened to take over the laundry room.  I'm not one to give power to a pile of washing and so on Tuesday afternoon I set about putting on a few loads.  I didn't really think about the fact that it was already 17.00.  So I did my washing, I hung my washing out to dry and then I forgot about it.  As often I do.  So when I woke up in the middle of the night to sounds of high winds the first thing I thought about was my washing still on the line.  Whoops.  I'm confident that the plants are ok in this kind of wind and even the lid of the compost bin manages to stay put but I wasn't sure about the washing.  I had images of pants flying in the wind, trousers heading out to sea and a line of Mystical Roo's shirts dancing off over the roof tops.  But I didn't get out of bed.  I was concerned but not concerned enough that I wanted to leave the warm cocoon of the bed.  My mind was put at ease when I remembered that I'd used my hurricane proof pegs.  Yes, that's right.  Hurricane proof pegs.  I'm not sure if I've made mention of these before but we originally bought them because they were yellow and green.  And plastic, so there was no risk of rust running onto our clothes.  I had failed to notice that they were also advertised as hurricane proof until we actually got home.  I guess hurricane proof pegs are a selling point but honestly, who leaves their clothes out in a hurricane? Me apparently.  Ok, so it wasn't exactly a hurricane but it was certainly very, very windy.  When I woke up this morning I confessed to Mystical Roo that I'd left our laundry on the line.  He was well aware of this and said that he too had been woken up worrying about the clothes.  I guess the hurricane proof pegs put his mind at rest too.  I went to check on our clothes and they were all exactly where I'd left them.  Not only that, they were dry and smelt fresh and clean.  Then it occurred to me that with hurricane proof pegs I shouldn't have been afraid of the wind.  I should have been pleased that it was doing such a thorough drying job of my clothes.  Hurricane pegs are a genius invention.  Make the most of a bad situation and use the force of  nature to dry your clothes in record time.  As long as the washing line itself doesn't fly away then it's all good.  Even if it did, I bet those pegs would hold firm.  So what are you waiting for everyone.  Go out and buy yourself some hurricane proof pegs!