Tag: servants

• Do You Clean Vegetables With Soap?

  Today’s novel was described as ‘a real oddity’ and ‘a book unlike any other’ when it was discussed on the Radio 4’s ‘A Good Read’. House-Bound, by Winifred Peck, (published by Persephone), is the second in my loosely-themed ‘housework’ quartet. The time is 1941, the place is Edinburgh, and middle-class, middle-aged Rose Fairlaw, unable to…

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  June 6, 2012

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• 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.…

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  May 17, 2012

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