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| Monday October 22nd, 1894 |  |
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6:00am –
Got up. Today is
Monday and it`s washing day for this month.
Down
back stairs into the kitchen, it`s dark and cold I could hear the wind
blowing, and howling outside.
Expecting
our "daily girl", Molly from
The
wooden tubs and `dolly` and mangle are ready for when
Molly gets here. Did that over the weekend.
One wash, one boiling and one rinse, I always say. Have to light the
fire under
the copper and get lots of water from the pump outside. Need
to clean the range and fireplace too
before anything happens.
We got a new washboard a while back which is
quicker
and easier to use than the old dollies, so between the two we`ll get it
done
right well and quick like, all before the end of the day.
We could do
with one
of those new rotary washing machines like what they have over there in
7:00am – Molly
arrives and starts rubbing the clothes with sunlight
soap to remove stains. I was helping her to wash and rinse while
attending to Breakfast as best I could. We`ll do
the
wringing together too using the mangle machine for the towels, table
cloths
and
bedding in a while.
Served up Breakfast for everyone which today was porridge, followed by bacon
and eggs.
Master
James said that Rosebery's new selection of ministers
was largely because Queen
Sometimes, it isn`t that things are harder than you
thought
they were going to be, it`s often a case of them being hard in ways
that you
didn't expect, I always say.
But I do say also - meet the unexpected as a friend, for
you'll
see a lot
of it, so you had better be on speaking terms with it. And that`s the
truth !
It was
so shocking to hear last Thursday that Lord
Rosebery`s, private secretary, Baron Kelhead died in what may have been
a
hunting accident or suicide or even murder as some folks are
saying now.
Some are
suggesting or even saying Baron Kelhead may have had a
relationship
with Lord
Rosebery, our Prime Minister. Well, so what if he did !
Others say the Marquess of
Queensbury threatened to expose the Prime
Minister's private life if the government did not vigorously prosecute
Oscar
Wilde for Wilde's relationship with his youngest son and Baron Kelhead
's younger brother,
Lord
Alfred Douglas. Tittle tattle, tittle tattle !
It`s a shame folk feel so closed and bitter and
threatened by
the things they don`t like nor understand, mind.
Anyway, there is so much things said and
gossip
around these days, it`s timely that folk need to speak only the good
they know
of other people and encourage
others to do the same. Folk can always speak well of others if
their tongue can deliver the positive message of their heart.
Gossip makes you eventually lonely.
8:00am – 8:30am – Edmund
came with the bread as usual and Victor soon after
with the milk. Victor said he had cut well down on the drink and was
slowly
getting over the death of his wife. Poor
I say it`s more plain and simple - It`s how to deal with life. I told
him
bottling up your feelings is one of the worst things you can do to
yourself,
especially when something major like that happens to you in your life.
Don’t
put up a front just because you want to appear strong
in this world. The world is the world. People cannot and will
never
understand
what you go through in your own special life. So deal with it the best
way you
can. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far.
I was
glad to hear Victor is dealing with life.
It took the two of us to peg out the washing in the yard on the lines. It was harder than usual with the wind. Molly was singing the music hall song , “Oh Mr Porter” and I joined in at the chorus:
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Oh! Mr Porter, what shall
I do, |
We was
howling so much with laughter. Our kitten, Little Blackie
was running after the leaves. It`s so nice to live in a world where
there are
Autumns. Can`t imagine life without an
autumn. As William Cullen Bryant said: "Autumn... the year's last,
loveliest smile."
Just play, enjoy
the game and smile, and laugh, I always say.
It`s good
to get
wildly enthusiastic about little things. Friends and animals help so
much and make
life a lot more fun too.
Then one of the sheets slaps Molly right on
the bottom,
and at the very same time, her
dress blew up into the air over her head. Oh My !
All I could see were these
three-quarter length white cotton bloomers with a lace frill. My face
must have
been a picture, I didn`t know where to look !
We couldn`t stop howling
which was so irresistibly
contagious, have to say.
Mrs. Chapman came out to see what the commotion was about. She appeared
quite alarmed but then she were
howling too
when she seen Molly, spinning around in the wind with her dress over
her head
and howling with her soul dancing and singing `Oh! Mr Porter`.
I don't think Molly knew Mrs Chapman were there or she might not be
singing and spinning with such abandon. She is as mad as hops is our
Molly.
Blackie
then
took a fancy to the main dining-room table cloth on the line with the
hanging
pompoms blowing in the wind, and the commotion got worse with Little
Blackie
jumping at
the pompoms blowing on the line.
Mrs. Chapman had to sit down on the
low wall
to the garden with laughing and shouted at Blackie calling her a little
imp. We both looked at each other while Molly was spinning round and
round. That`s her name - Imp !!
What a right lovely and
fitting new
name for the kitten. She`s a Lincoln Imp, she is !
The original
“Lincoln Imp`s” bottom
got a good thrashing by the angel in Lincoln Cathedral me Mam always
said before it was
turned to
stone like its friend the "Grimsby Imp" after it was blown into the
cathedral by strong winds and creating mayhem and mischief in there.
We
all
agreed after Molly got a right slap on the bottom by the sheet in the
strong
wind and
finally got her dress back down and composed herself, agreed that Imp
was a
perfect name
for the kitten now.
We all laughed and howled in the wind over it all.
Must
start reading a new book again as I
have finished
reading nice Mr. Scotts book, "The
Heart of Midlothian"
at the
weekend. Too tired tonight to start one, I am.
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I would like to visit
Edinburgh one
day. Guid cheerio the
nou as they say ! Been an exhausing day.
VICTORIAN
WASHING DOLLY
THE
LINCOLN IMP
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