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  • washing days

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    Washing day
     
    Mother rarely gave in to the Skelping temptation, she would use the brush, the mop, the “posser” anything to hand really and which armament breached the natural safe zone one had believed in place.
     
    I can tell you that a good swing with the mop catching you round the ear would bowl you over and give her a chance to get within reach before you got up again. her intention was to bowl you over…

  • chickens

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    Chickens
     
    The war was taking its course and a shortage of men around the place meant that women were doing many of the jobs that men traditionally did. Rationing had begun to bite and most of our gardens had been dug over in the “dig for Victory” drive, this was a way of producing more food by digging over every bit of land,
     
     Lawns, flower beds and unkempt bits of ground were the target for the Ministry…

  • Nynpho? not the same as an Ology

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    Its difficult to find something amusing in my present situation but I have a chap who helps me out with the jobs I can no longer manage, he is the equivalent of the cowboy who can talk to the Apache,  unlike his peacekeeping Cavalry friend .
    You know the thing I mean?, he walks up to White cloud or the warring Geronimo and in perfect Indian speak , a bit like French, he chats away until all parties get the message and…
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