a washing machine in the kitchen ... disgusting!

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There is some right rubbish which gets itself spouted by idiots. This week the nonsense chatter has been focused on washing machines being in the kitchen. Kirstie Allsop - privileged lass that she is - apparently caused a Twitter storm in a teacup by alluding to washing machines in the kitchen as being disgusting. Maybe she said it was dirty and unhygienic too. I don't know; I don't use Twitter and I haven't read the articles about it which then appeared in the papers. I suspect that it's no less disgusting than it is dangerous to have electricity plug sockets in the bathroom. We don't allow that in the UK. A hairdrier in the bathroom? I think not! But let's refocus on washing machines. When I was a nipper I had a friend and she had a utility room. What heavenly magic! A room built to house a washing machine! She was like royalty and we worshipped the very ground she walked on. Nobody else I knew was lucky enough to have one of these. We all lived - like the humble fools we are - with our washing machines in the kitchen. And yet, not once did any of us catch that most horrific and somewhat fatal of diseases, laundryitis. Smelly socks on the kitchen floor, sweaty bras swinging from the cupboard handles and dirty knickers strewn across countertops. Its a wonder we've managed to survive to adulthood. Houses for the ordinary among us in the UK tend to be smaller than in other developed western countries. There is less land and land is therefore expensive, so houses are smaller. To factor in a utility room would lead to a smaller kitchen, and my kitchen is probably smaller than the whateveryoumaycallit room where ordinary folk in other countries keep their washing machines. It's all by-the-by anyway; nobody really cares, as long as we don't have to walk miles to wash our clothes or collect our dirty drinking water in old lead buckets. We forget that it's a privilege to have running water, a roof over our head and somewhere to keep a washing machine. Most of the world doesn't have this. Perspective, people. Perspective!