JUXTAPOSITION !

A melodious little jingle rang out - the cycle was complete!  It had taken just 28 minutes.  The Samsung Diamond Drum, Fully Automatic, Washing Machine with Silver Nano Technology is a wonderfully compact top load machine, about 3 ft tall, waist height for convenience and offers different water level options, air turbo choices, odour removal and sanitisation, wash, rinse and spin.

Outside,  in a concrete space, about 5 ft square, you could hear the dull thud of the wooden paddle, rather like a cricket bat, as wet clothes were rhythmically beaten, 'bam, bam, bam', a cake of soap applied, scrubbed with a scrubber,  a handful of water thrown over,  folded,  beaten again,  dunked,  held up for examination,  beaten again,  soaped,  rubbed,  rinsed and thrown aside for the next item - the whole operation about 28 minutes !