days are numbered.
No, no on this occasion I am not referring to myself!
The thing of beauty and a joy for ever is going to the big steam-punk heaven in the sky, where it will make the acquaintance of past things of mind blowing beautification. For example the
Sinclair C5, the trains of the mid- west with the frilly cow catching fronts that oh so gently brushed the cows out of their paths as they steamed through the barren, arid lands.
The Segway.
Dare I say the Reliant Robin and risk offending fans the world over who loved Derek Trotter Esq.
Twin-tub washing machines.
The mangle of yore that gave grannie arms the size of a Sumo wrestler.
Flat irons, tin baths.
Crank handles for cars float by on a cloud jumbled together looking ‘other worldly’ like a
viper’s nest.
Clippy’s ticket machines
on the buses.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s cantilever experiments that never saw the light of day.
Feel free to add to this list in order for the old boiler not to feel totally unloved as it lurks behind the palm, trying with every nut and bolt of its being to blend into the background.
Goodbye cruel world it pants with gas fuelled gasps...
I read this earlier but couldn't think of a comment...seems no one else could. so just saying hello .. Been on zoom with book club..had wine!
ReplyDeleteProbably the best way to read my blog posts... is with wine!?! Out of interest I have next to read your book club recommendation, Golden Hill the one you were struggling with. How did it turn out, or maybe you have moved on?
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It was " different". We all thought that there were some uneccessarily long passages . Set in 1740s New York so interesting to read about a different time and place. Not the best book I have read! Just started the next book. " Longbourn" by Jo Baker. It is based on the servants in the Bennett household ( Pride and Prejudice)It was my suggestion though not read it yet. A friend at the Oxfam book shop recommended it, and it seemed like an easy read!I also recently re-read " Dead Ernest" by Frances Garood. I used to read her blog though she stopped it a while ago when her husband died. Again, an easy read but I love it. She has written several others.
DeleteI think your list is pretty comprehensive.
ReplyDeleteThanks Joanne, I do love to think of obsolete or unloved.
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I'm baffled today about your post!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure, did Lettice or Linda wrote this post? It is kind of funny though!
You’re baffled, welcome to my world! Lettice is my nom de plume, I love the name, far better than Linda, which I shorten to Lin. My son is just relieved he was a lad, otherwise he would have been called Lettice. Lettice is an abbreviation for Letitia used long along, me well I by far prefer he abbreviation.
DeleteI get these flights of fancy, don’t worry Moni it will pass and normal service will be resumed... don’t hold your breath though!?!
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As you can also see I fire off my responses without proof reading them... the he should have been the. You wouldn’t believe the times I say to myself to carefully read what I have written before I post it? Or maybe you would?
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I was speed reading and totally missed it!
DeleteI loved my twin-tub washing machine when it was around, the way it jiggled the clothes around gently as it washed and then the spin. My daughter on the other hand always snorts with laughter at such ancient devices...
ReplyDeleteI didn’t like all the heaving washing over from one side to the other and then how did we rinse the clothes?
DeleteMy Auntie Margarine had a huge old round washing machine that stood on four stout legs, it was Canadian I think? It resembled a UFO. It also had two separate large metal tubs for the rinsing, the mangle section of the washing machine you moved to squeeze out the water back into the washing machine, then into the clean water, this you repeated into the second tub of clean water. I seem to think it finished up in the London Museum. Come to think of it is it any wonder that the whole of Monday was devoted to Wash Day?
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More room for plants?!
ReplyDeleteFar more room, I do love the odd triffid or two!
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I passed a Sinclair C5 on the road on Friday so steady on. I remember the day my mum got her first twintub, secondhand, and what a day of joy it was. It was treated with great reverence. I got one half of a twin tub when I moved away from home and it had a wringer on the top. Later I bought a spin dryer and it was like my mum's day with the twintub all over again. My mum later got a vast toploader which she loved and she never really took to front loaders. You wouldn't believe so much could be said about washing machines and I have hardly started. Before all that was the Burco....
ReplyDeleteWell, well, was that a bit of time travel you were on Rachel, on Friday? Oh the tales of Monday wash day and rissoles for tea... happy innocent days.
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I doubt your boiler is all that old! Things now seem to have a 'won't work after this date' built into them now! Machines certainly seemed to last longer in the 'olden' days. I bet if you could find a twin tub now it would still be working fine! Our old boiler was huge and on the floor, apparently thats not allowed now! It was the size of a washing machine and lasted for about 30 years with few breakdowns. Just 5 years ago we had to replace it and so far its needed repaired twice! I fear it won't last as long as its predecessor, but then again probably I won't either!! x
ReplyDeleteTen years, I think? It apparently was fitted as a cheapo huge boiler that could heat a twenty bedroom mansion. The previous owner had an eye for a bargain whether it fitted or no?
DeleteI am inclined to agree with you about the machines of today not being up to much, and they call it progress?
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