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I take it, then, that The Powder Room deals in more than one type of white powder.

There are shifty-looking adolescents openly trading what look like little packs of Persil, Daz and Ariel, yeah.

I think you must live in a different part of Bow from me. I've missed the hooded youths, and the laundrettes - where I live it is very civilised and wouldn't live anywhere else.

The dividing line between 'Bow' and 'Bromley-by-Bow' is very thin. North of Bow Road there are civilised Victorian terraces - the Islington of Tower Hamlets. But cross Bow Road and head south into the council estates and that's a very different place altogether.

God knows I know this is going to just sound so horribly middle-class of me but I am always surprised by the continuing life of laundrettes. I know washing machines can be expensive, but not the cheap ones, if you know what I mean. And there are various schemes to provide white goods to people who can't afford them, as far as I knew.

Is it cheaper to use a laundrette? Is it space? I speak from complete ignorance here.

When I moved into my flat, I discovered that my washing machine didn't work. It took a month to get the repairs sorted, during which time I was mighty relieved that launderettes still exist. A lot of people round here wouldn't get their clothes washed any other way.

On the subject of washing machines ... http://www.ramkleen.com/case\\_stu...dies/
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