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[from an original painting by lavenderblue]
[from an original painting by lavenderblue]
'THE BEADLE'
[from an original painting by lavenderblue]
'ANTICANT AT HOME'
[from an original painting by lavenderblue]
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- PASSING SHIPS
- LEGAL EAGLE
- CASE OF THE FLYING KNICKERS
- "AH DUNNO!" - 28th February
- ON GROWING OLD
- "AH DUNNO!" - 27th February
- "AH DUNNO!" - 23rd February
- ACHTUNG! PANIC AT THE YELLOW DUCK POND
- A NIGHTCAP FROM BEN
- "AH DUNNO!" - 21st February
- "AH DUNNO!" - 16th February
- Great-great Aunts at Wharmton
- "AH DUNNO!" - 15th February
- A BRAVE FRIEND
- "AUNT GARTSIDE" and "OLD UNCLE TOM"
- "AH DUNNO!" - 14th February
- FAMILY YARNS
- BEECHAM MEMORIES
- NEVER A WOG!
- "AH DUNNO!" - 10th February
- "AH DUNNO!" - 9th February
- "AH DUNNO!" - 8th February
- ANTICANT IS STILL AWKWARD
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About Me
- anticant
- anticant is the blogname of a lifelong free speech and civil rights campaigner. A lot of his life since WW2 has been taken up with battling against cruel and over-bossy laws, censorship, censoriousness, and Nanny Knows Best types. Now elderly and in poor health, anticant hopes his memories and thoughts will be of interest to those engaged in today's struggles for freedom, democracy, and a more hopeful tomorrow. e-mail: anticant@hotmail.co.uk
14 comments:
How perfectly lovely........
what wonderful times they must have been.
Well, Lavender, those times were not yet good for women. Running the household was their main absorbing task.
From what I gathered from my grandmother [her niece], "Aunt Gartside" ran her husband as well as the household! A very formidable lady. The family were rather wary of her temper.
Anticant ! - a woman after my own heart, apart from housework, that is.......
Jose..what a dreadful life ! - changed my mind, thank you !
They - some of them, anyway - did have servants, you know!
Now that would have a certain appeal......
French maids ?
A lady i knew in the Yorkshire Dales told me that she met her husband-to-be at her coming out ball in London.
On being told he was a 'Gentleman Farmer', she asked the meaning, to be told that gentlemen farmers provided servants for their wives.
And servants she had ! Amazing.
The servants were very convenient for the husbands - and the unmarried sons - too. Some of "bachelor Uncle Tom's" children were by his housekeeper. After all, the Pennines did get very snowed up in the wintertime, and there wasn't all that much else to do!
Upstairs, Downstairs.
Fascinating,but so wrong !
Why do I get the feeling that some of the servants were not always willing participants in that parlour game ?
Uncle Tom sounds rather rakish, so maybe his Housekeeper was very happy with her lot.
I hope so.
Times for women have always been difficult, with the rare exeptions as that one mentioned by Anticant. I remember not so long ago (40+ years) here a maid that was very proud a son she had was "by" the master of the house.
Castration,castration, castration.....
No castration in the burrow! Nor female circumcision neither, you will be relieved to hear, Madam.
This is a respectable house. Some of the callers are a tad disreputable, though. I am unlikely to become redundant in the foreseeable future.
By Order
Oh damn, I was just sharpening my 'instruments'.......
Beadle : you got that right for a change.
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