Tag: Housework

• Love, Housework and Happy Endings

  My 1996 Penguin edition of The RoseRevived, with its lovely cover paintedby Pamela Kay There are those who dismiss Katie Fforde because she is a writer of romantic fiction, but all I can say is, they don’t know what they’re missing. And I’m not going to describe her as a guilty pleasure because firstly, it’s…

  chrisharding53

  June 13, 2012

  comfort reading, happy endings, Housework, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Katie Fforde, love, The Rose Revived

• A House-Husband and a Working Woman

  When my brother and I were very young, my mother used to turn the dining room lino into a skating rink, or the frozen Arctic wastes, and we would slide across the floor… it was years later that I realised this not only kept us happy, but also got the linoleum polished with the minimum…

  chrisharding53

  June 11, 2012

  Children, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Housework, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Persephone, The Home-Maker

• Down With Housework!

  Doing The Mending: Each chapter heading in How To Run Your  Home Without Helpis illustrated with a lovely little line drawing Housework, as those who know me will confirm, has never been one of my accomplishments, and the Man Of The House is equally unenthusiastic about domestic activities. ‘Lived-in’ is how people describe our home.…

  chrisharding53

  May 17, 2012

  cleaning, Housework, How To Run Your Home Without Help, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, mending, polishing, servants, WW2