How the other half lives

[a chesters]

And here was I about to offer some help 

Then realised the date quoted

[7igerby7he7ail]

My gran [ a scullery maid, then a kitchen maid age 14-20 when she married] told me many years ago that she had to turn and face the wall, when any of the family she worked for happened to be passing. If she was alive today I think she would have something to say about 'Downton Abbey'.

[jbml]

My mother apparently once looked up from scrubbing the kitchen floor, sighed, and said "I wish I'd lived in the days when people had servants to do this for them".

To which my ever-practical grandmother replied: "No you don't dear: you'd have been the servant!"

[mrs.tenacious]

My mother apparently once looked up from scrubbing the kitchen floor, sighed, and said "I wish I'd lived in the days when people had servants to do this for them".

To which my ever-practical grandmother replied: "No you don't dear: you'd have been the servant!"

    Love it!


It's still happening today, albeit in smaller corners.  My OH works for a foreign royal family in this country, and it's a real eye-opener.  They never do anything for themselves; they've never had to. Money is literally no object. Everything they want is provided for with a metaphorical click of the fingers, and mostly upon a whim.