I was the youngest of 4 and Mum always worked, we needed the money. To begin with after school, my job was to lay the table for tea time ( no ‘dinner’ in our house). As we grew up my jobs progressed to lighting the coal fire, preparing veg, and finally the cooking.
I can’t say I was a latchkey kid as our house door was never locked. We lived in a wee village and I remember a grocery van came mid week. Mum would leave a ‘message bag’ inside the door and the grocery van man would open the door to get the bag, fill out the grocery order (a handwritten list) and pop it back in the house. The van would come again on Saturday and mum would get anything else she needed and pay the bill.
Happy days.
sticky labels on apples - remove before washing!
Lame Limericks (but they are funny anyway) (
How much do you spend on yourself?