Handwashing my clothes in a sink of cold water, using laundry liquid made by boiling up nuts on my rocket stove, can take two hours, instead of half an hour using a washing machine.

There happened to be a bath-tub for the servants in the laundry building, and he electrified Joe by taking a cold bath.

Visitors duck under drying laundry, washed by hand under the cold tap. If it weren't for my Internet connection, life here would be the same as it was centuries ago.