We have some little black and white photos of people in our lane queueing up at the stand pipe in the road, filling up buckets etc. I was 10, big sister 13, we were very proud as Dad was there with his little Ferguson tractor, filling up a huge container to take water to our small holding for all the animals.
Remember a girl in our class saying she had to use the water from her hot water bottle to get washed in. I thought “Ugh!”- would rather have remained unwashed.
Our Welfare State. Is it broken?
Forgetting where you left your keys does not mean you are “losing it”