To sit and think my poor grandmother! What would she think?!

[DurableMatts]

It’s 10:30 and so far today my house has been hoovered/mopped by the robot hoover, the clothes are washed and drying…and I have only had to pop the clothes in and press a few buttons. The house is warm and I’ve done nothing for that as it’s on a thermostat.

I am wfh so I get to earn and I still dropped my dc to school.

My poor granny had 10 dc! She had no washing machine so washed everything by hand! She walked the youngest to school and then came home to clean the house, washed the clothes, hung them out if weather permitted, had to light fires to keep the house warm. And she didn’t earn a bloody penny!

she would be in awe at things today 😢 (and yes I’m well aware that a lot of people still have to do a lot of these things these days…I was just thinking about her is all and it got me)

This made me think of a feature on Radio 4 a few days ago, when they were reading out responses to a survey that was done in Bolton in the 1930s, when ordinary working people (ie men) were asked to describe what happiness meant to them. The typical responses were to be able to provide food for the following week (most were miners paid weekly) and to spend time with their wife and family on their days off. The presenter was shocked at so little they needed to create happiness, and how much more we need for it now.