NANA JAMES WITH DIANE AND RONNIE IN FRONT OF HER AND MY MUM MAVIS ON THE RIGHT
Here we are at another Friday, I have nothing on today which is more like me as I rarely go out.
After reading the comment on yesterdays blog, I started to think about my Mum and the things she would tell me about her childhood. Mum spent over 10yrs living with her grandmother in the small country town of Byabarra in NSW, they had no running water, no electricity, thus no fridge. Mum would have to start the wood stove in the morning, and walk to an Uncle’s farm about a 10 minute walk and get fresh milk each day, as well as collect the eggs from the chooks.
All done before going to school, it was a small one teacher school and Mum was related to over half the class.
Baths were once a week in round tin thing with water heated on the stove, the loo was out the back down the yard a typical Aussie Dunny.
Lighting was through candles or old kero lamps, Mum would say it was a hard life but she loved living with her grandma and was a happy girl.
Jo-AnneRamplings 
Dearest Jo-Anne,
Such stories ought to be well preserved for their offspring!
Even I grew up without running water, we had a water pump and when I turned 14 we got running water. The weekly bath was in a oblong sink tub, that got used on Monday for rinsing the bed linens after they got cooked in the copper kettle, that was inserted inside a big round thing with opening below for burning wood to heat it. It also got used for filling buckets of hot water for that oblong tub.
Toilet had no flush and I could go on and on.
People often forget how recent all our luxuries got invented and could be afforded by our parents.
Hugs,
Mariette
Yeah I feel the young ones of today really have no idea how hard their grandparents or great-grandparents had it. They take so many things we have now for granted
AMEN!
I don’t ever remember being without running water but like Mariette I do recall the weekly bath in the tin (zinc) tub sat in front of an open fire. I recall being told that my grandparents lived in a row of cottages with access to a single standpipe. They didn’t have an Ozzy style dunny but I do remember the stand-alone brick and flint loo with torn newspaper squares in place of toilet paper. Mariette is correct about how recent our luxuries really are.
Sometime I would like to take some these entitled youth and shove them back in time then maybe they would have a less entitled attitude to life but maybe not
Oh and my mum used to “cook” our laundry in a round, gas fired boiler and then we would be co-opted to crank the handle on the mangle to squeeze the laundry dry before being hung on the line outside. Clothes frozen stiff in the winter.
Yeah can you see a 18yr old today using a mangle without squashing their fingers or as you said “cooking” the laundry before hand.