I am totally convinced about natural clothes drying in the air. I have no idea how many times I have heard the phrase "There's nothing like a good blow to dry the clothes". The difference is quite marked between clothes dried naturally on the line to those in a tumble dryer.

The smell is" nature fresh" without the overheating common in tumble driers and of course without loss of fluff which is the fibre of the clothes.

How long do clothes last when regularly tumble dried? When you change the fluff filter where does all that fluff come from - the clothes of course! It does not mean these are surplus fibres. What it means is your clothes and household cottons are less than they were before. A tumble dryer quickly reduces the body in your clothes and speeds up their decline.

Building a natural drying system extends the life of your clothes. This can easily be achieved using wall mounted drying racks. Especially when you mount one about the other, say about one metre or so apart. Then you have a double-decker natural drying system.

Laundry dries at different speeds of course. Some things dry faster than others. Polyester items and light cottons dry faster than say heavy towels. Faster drying items can be removed when dry. This creates new space to add more laundry to the drying cycle. Can you imagine the problem if you had to open the door of your tumble dryer to remove light items so the heavy ones could be further dried?. The clothes airer cycle is not only natural it is also an economic use of drying space.

Why not have a coffee or tea while clothes dry slowly on the clothes airer. At the same time you will reduce your carbon footprint. We all know about global warming through the use of fossil fuels to produce energy such as electricity.

It logically follows that if you are not using electricity or gas to dry your laundry you will effectively reduce your carbon footprint. At the very least become carbon neutral. Renewing our clothes through the laundering process is important to us all. Being fresh in fresh clothes or changing beds with fresh clean cotton sheets is always a welcome change.

When our Grannie dried the clothes in her back garden the clothes were pushed high up into the air as if the clothes had wings and would fly

Clothes airers clearly dont have wings but while they complete their job of drying our clothes we at least have the time to fly in many other ways.