General Chat

A headline in the local paper today stated that a mother of two was left without hot water for two weeks.

Well, I can think of at least two mothers of ten in my family who were left with no hot or even running water for whole lifetimes.

Sharron - Likewise - hence the local expression: 'The kettle was always on the boil over an open fireplace fuelled by turf & odd bits of wood.

My grandmother raised her family in a little old cottage in a small Welsh village.

They thought it really 'modern' when they no longer had to go to the village pump to get water, but could just go outside to the standpipe near the entrance to the garden.

My gran was particular about cleanliness though and the lifestyle didn't seem to do the children any harm. Mum died at 94, her sister at 92 and another is alert and bright at almost 97.


I do like readily available hot water though.

Until I was ten and we aspired to live in a council house, we had a well across the road and a bucket lavatory.

That was the house in which my great grandmother had raise her ten children.

It is "funny" how todays must have/can't live without weren't even in previous generations dreams.