On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:55:29 +0100, sweetheart wrote:

The dishwasher is almost brand new ( my old one bit the dust, was
obsolete and the insurance company gave us a new one - its an AAA
rating.)

The Washing machine is two years old and again AAA rarted.

A typical washing machine cycle (obviously this depends on what
temperature you select) costs just a few pence. Dishwasher likewise (more
than doing it by hand).

By the way....it would be helpful if you could select the 'quoting'
option in the program you're using to read mail. This adds '' (or
similar) to the parts of other people's posts when you include them.
Sometimes it's a bit hard to disentagle 'who said what' otherwise...

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