Jetblue, you're being presumptious - no partner at home all day, I wish! - we both work full time and yes, that does mean that sometimes I hang clothes out very early morning or very late at night - such is life! Hizzy, I haven't got a problem with the spiders, but earwigs AAGH! However, I find that a good shake as I take the clothes off the line takes care of all unwanted hangers-on. Apartment dwellers obviously have no choice but to dry indoors but I can't understand why apartment blocks here haven't got communal washing facilities which are common both in the States and in some other European countries. A friend who lives in Brussels has a communal wash room which leads out on to a sheltered outdoor drying space, don't know why that shouldn't be the case here where many apartment blocks do have access to outside space. I had to replace my tumble dryer not so long ago and bought one with reverse tumble and two heat settings which was an improvement on my previous one, which definitely shrank my clothes. If money was no object I'd have the "drying cabinet" which I saw in Clerys window about two years ago, it was the same size as a fridge freezer and had two sets of hanging bars which you hung your clothes on, the hot air circulated around them and meant no ironing! I HATE ironing and would do anything to cut it out entirely!