Old skills come in handy and a confession

• Washing a hair brush
• Rolling a cigarette
• Yoga breath

I was taught how to wash a hairbrush and comb in Domestic Science. It came back to me today when I was washing the Roomba's brush - beat the surface of the water with the brush and it fetches the stuff out of the base of the bristles.  Does anybody do Domestic Science anymore and are they taught how to make tea and toast and to iron a shirt?

Cig rolling was learnt at my Dad's knee.  Years of watching him have paid off though I still can't roll with the gummy edge facing me or garden with the cig stuck to my bottom lip.

And the yoga breath was recalled by Diz when I restarted going to yoga.  She still uses it to screw  the tops off new jars.(As do I - it's obvious when you think about it but we never did until Fleck told us!)

And now for something completely different:



Don't they look smug.  There are more on Biblioddysey

My favourite cookbook is a Good Housekeeping from the fifties.  I got the jam recipe from there - it is certainly from a different time, it talks of not having enough sugar.

As for the confession - I'm a self publisher.  No, not a self publicist, though I may be that too. I've been putting my poems onto Kindle for three months now.  There's stuff I've not thrown away since the 70s and I'm not claiming it's good.  That's why the writer is Jane Newall, my Dad's grandma who he could not stand.  There's 3 booklets so far and about 3 more to go. 



They say getting it off your chest is good for your stomache.  Now I'm going for breakfast.