Oh, how true Fire. I well remember when my mum had no washing machine - and as for my granny - really hard graft . A twin-tub eventually was such luxury, even though Mum still had to put everything through the wringer. We're so fortunate in a civilised country nowadays, but, of course, you're quite right - the modern generation have no idea!!!!
When we were first married ( 1972 golden wedding next year ) we had no washer or dryer spin or otherwise. I well remember filling the bath and the both of us walking up and down in turns on the sheets to wash them. Then again to rinse and then twisting the sheets one of us each end to get the water out over the newly planted potatoes. I now use a retractable clothes line .
Oddly, I recently discovered that a single duvet fits comfortably in a regular washing machine for washing. Why did it take me decades to learn this I wonder? Some washers can take a double, even.
Ours are all king size and feather and down so I take mine to a launderette where the machines are huge. It's the only time I ever use a tumble dryer to get them dried and fluffed up at the same time.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I think people who have only ever know modern washing machines and tumble driers can have no idea of the degree of hard work that washing involved and still does, in much of the world. Hand washing is the norm for much of the planet - by women.
If you ever watch any of the Tudor/Victorian/Edwardian/Wartime farm series, you get a very good idea of just how much work the laundry was a few generations ago
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Plenty of mention of washing hair, but none of washing pits and bits -
surely the smelliest of all. The stink of being "sewn into underwear"
must beggar belief.
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.