Just a quick blog between rainstorms to say I'm trying Soapnuts to do the family wash. I don't know if they'll be any good and I'm sure they are only environmentally friendly if they avoid being a mass market product (whereupon no doubt large areas of India would be cleared to grow the trees, and it would get air freighted all over the place etc etc), but I shall give them a try. They came with a free 'laundry ball', which you don't add soap too. I've wanted to try these, but don't want to shell out thrity odd quid for something I don't think really works, so I'll give this one a try! I am hoping a combination of Fairy, Soap Nuts and this laundry ball (where you don't need the rinse cycle because there is no soap as such) keep our stuff nice and clean!

Quick, a dry spell..need to get outside.