I'd like to introduce you to my laundry basket

I am always trying to improve things. Or get the best way for doing things. And when I find something that works well, I feel I should spread the word!

This is my laundry basket.
I love it. It works so well.

It's got three hanging linen 'bags' which can be removed, so it's very easy to sort clothes (I do whites, blacks and coloureds!).
Relations have told me "ah, sure, it's not that much hassle to separate your darks from your whites before doing a wash..." but why should you have to?!
The only thing I might change about it is have a fourth hanger; for delicates... You see what I said is true - I'm always trying to improve things ;O)

Train Travel Plugged in

I travelled by train recently from Dublin to Mullingar and was delighted to by able to use my laptop on board. Or if I needed to I could charge my phone or mp3 player. I actually had some work to do before arriving and the battery on my laptop was running low so this little socket next to my seat alleviated some stress for me.
I don't know what impact this has on the fuel used by the train or how it works but it was handy!
Actually, on a related point, I have often spotted the lighting on the DART and wonder, at midday, if it is really necessary to have it on.

Green post boxes

I've been a fan of these postboxes for a while now.
If you see beyond the green - Irish National Colour, don't forget! - and look at the writing on the box above, you'll see a crown sitting above the letters ER.
There are also postboxes with VR and others with GR.
The British Monarchs they refer to are:
George V 1910–1936 (26 years reign)
Edward VII 1901–1910 (9 years reign)
Victoria 1837–1901 (64 years reign)
I've never spotted one with WR but if it existed it would be even older and would refer to:
William IV 1830–1837

The story goes that when the Irish republic was formed, we couldn't afford new postboxes and the good cast iron ones that were in place were perfectly functional - so we simply sent people around with buckets of green paints and thereby nationalised our postboxes!