My avatar has changed in the night! How did that happen? I now have a picture of some of the earlies washing machines in the country: stone disks that must have rubbed the life out of the clothes. They are pictured in my dad's garden, where they've been ever since the previous occupant of the house invested in Port Sunlight at the turn of the century. Bizarrely, the guy's old documents seem to be turning up on Ebay-
ANTIQUE DEED EDENFIELD Lancashire ROSTRON CHATT WOOD 1906- guaranteed original - from the reign of KING EDWARD VII - 101 YEARS OLD
BEING THE DEED OF CONVEYANCE FOR PERPETUAL YEARLY RENT OUT OF HEREDITAMENTS AND PREMISES AT EDENFIELD NEAR RAMSBOTTOM IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER
BETWEEN ERNEST BELLHOUSE OF SOUTH SIDE ALTRINCHAMIN THE COUNTY OF CHESTER HENRY WORRALL OF GRIMSWORTH WHALLEY RANGE IN THE CITY OF MANCHESTER PLUS OTHERS OF THE FIRST PART EDWARD ROSTRON OF CHATTERTON HEY EDENFIELD NEAR RAMSBOTTOM OF THE SECON PART AND SIMEON CHATTWOOD OF CROWN HOUSE MARKET STREET EDENFIELD DRAPER OF THE THIRD PART
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Six is next to me, systematically working through a book of baby names. She has done G and H and I, so she won't have got to Simeon yet.
It is 5 o'clock in the morning.
Go to bed littlun (fourteenth time)
Hair!
You can stroke this doll's hair
I want Rexy Mouse.
Lie down and think about what you'd like to do in the morning.
See Mummy.
Sigh.
22/04/07 @ 11:40