I'm at the launderette where is Dot?

Something is wrong with our washing machine and has been for quite some time. For awhile it seemed easier to hand wash the laundry living fairly far from town as we do and not knowing what to expect in a launderette and hopeful that laundry fairies would fix my washer. Hand washing eventually got old and older and a dreaded task so today I ventured out to the Launderette or Laundrymat or whatever we call it here.

Upon arrival it looked somehow wrong to me.


After all when I think laundrette I think of this.


and expect her to be there... hullo Dot!


Why isn't Dot from Eastenders at the Launderette, she's always at the launderette unless of course Heather or Bianca or whatever part time person is there.

Clearly the laundrymat in my NH town in no way resembles the one in the fictional UK town of Walford where Eastenders is set.


If it was Walford then Dot would be just in the back there through that door- in the picture above- in the back. Sadly that door led to nothing but electrical stuff.

So I got no sage advice or bible verses from motherly Dot.

"Oh I say, it'll be alright, let me get ya a nice cuppa tea and you can tell me all about it".


All there was to do was to sit on this hard bench alone with nothing nearby but the post office which I had no need for this day.


If I had been in Walford I could have wandered out in the square whilst my washing was getting done. I could walk through the park...


or visit the Minute Mart for a snack...


Or wander through the market stalls.....


Or head into the cafe and hope not to get on Ian's bad side....


Maybe one of these people would also be doing their laundry, no one in Eastenders seems to actually own a washing machine. They all go to the launderette.

I could have headed over to the Queen Vic for the latest gossip...

and hoped that no fights would break out in there...

But I was not in Walford so I sat and watched the clothes spin....


and tumble.....

and got more quarters when mine ran out (pricey place these laundromats!)...

all the while thinking how fun it would be to have seen Dot (or Pauline even though she's dead now sadly in real life now too, sniff...) there and say:

I'd like a service wash if you've got time Dot.