Product review (5 stars): Makes me want to pee
Amazon says authors shouldn't review books.
But they didn't say anything about authors not being able to review whitegoods.

I'm an author. I'm also a feminist and I love my new washing machine.
The alternative - washing everything by hand - doesn't bear thinking about. How would I write The Next Amazing Novel (TM) if I was stuck in the laundry all day?

Ever wonder how Tolstoy wrote such massive books like War and Peace and Anna Karennina? I bet he never had to do laundry in his life.

Mind you, on the first day when this little love came home, I did sit in the laundry all day.
It was mesmerising. Clothes tumbling left. Stop. Clothes tumbling right. Oh the giddy majesty of it all.
1000rpm for the spin cycle. That's some serious torque right there.

But it's the "jetstream" fountain of sudsy wonderfulness splitter-splattering onto the clothes, making them all wet, that makes this washer so special.
Reminding me that I desperately needed to pee. You know, like at the end of that movie Titanic, when you've been sitting there for nearly three hours and your bladder is going to explode, and all you're looking at is water? Cold, icerbergy water that makes you want to pee!

That.

So, if I may advise anyone about to buy one of these fabulous products, don't sit there watching it all day.
You won't get any writing done, and you'll need to pee.

(I recently bought a 7kg Electrolux frontloading washing machine. Not this exact model, but one very much like it. And I really do love it.)