Washing surprises

like lifting up the peg basket and finding a sleepy cat underneath it or emptying out the washing machine and discovering a very clean, but quite dead, earwig among the underpants.

Other surprises have included finding a pair of underpants nestling in the hedge several days after hanging it out (was this the work of a successful earwig?), having a pair of jeans suddenly throw themselves into the air and spit a peg at me in passing, having the washing line lay itself down on the ground with all the washing (this was also a surprise to the dog who usually considers the washing an incomprehensible irrelevance and was sleeping in the sun just underneath it) and receiving an entirely unwanted gift from an overhead, passing housemartin (such pretty little birds but why do they nest under the eaves just above the honeysuckle and with the washing under their flightpath?).
Well, that's washing for you.
You can see some washing just behind the tomato plants. Barney has green fingers and therefore we will have tomatoes :)
And I get to have pictures of furry plants (not to be stroked though, they're a bit prickly)
And, for Latharia, this is what I thought was elephant's ears. A sort of giant mushroom :) There is a similarity I feel :)