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Post by jolovespiggies on Oct 5, 2015 19:10:19 GMT
Yes one of my relatives had a nanny and he didn't eat with the family until he was much older. I too am glad Piggles that the seen and not heard era is over, I lived through it, it was not pleasant. If we went visiting it was "Don't touch anything and only speak when spoken to." No Piggles love, Paul isn't keen on tea rooms either, I think men think it is too twee. I am clumsy in the kitchen too Bean love and break a lot of things. At a party, I do like real plates and cloth napkins but boy, it reduces the work afterwards if you have nice paper ones and paper napkins.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by Bean on Oct 6, 2015 8:20:26 GMT
Agreed! I hate using disposable plates/ cups for environmental reasons, but there are some occasions when I do anyway, just for the easy life! Especially gatherings with loads of kids in high spirits when you don't want them having loads of breakables around!
Although it's not the norm over here to take your shoes off inside, I fully understand why people do it. (Which reminds me, I need to clean the floors downstairs - luckily they're wipe clean!) At the same time I think it does our immune systems good not to have too sterile an environment, but I'm sure if you cultured what you got off my supposedly relatively clean floors, I'd be gagging!
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Post by jolovespiggies on Oct 6, 2015 18:30:07 GMT
Ha ha, yes Bean love, kids and china definitely don't mix LOL!! Yes I think we would have a shock if we saw what our floors are really like ad I wash mine every day. Yes I think you can go too far with it, you have to have a functioning immune system.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by Bean on Oct 7, 2015 8:22:13 GMT
Every day?! Oh Jo, you are good, I feel like a dirty old troll now! If the kids drop some food on the floor during dinner, they ask when I last cleaned the floor - if it was in the last week, they'll still eat it, but anything longer and they usually choose not to! I'm better at doing the bathrooms regularly, but always end up hoovering the kitchen floor when I do the living room (because of the guinea pig bedding, it gets a quick zoom most days) so forget it needs wiping too!
I think some people have a good immune system/ strong stomachs that can seemingly cope with anything. Others of us don't, so I'm much more careful about eating anything that could be contaminated or off.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Oct 7, 2015 18:55:49 GMT
The only days I don;t do it Bean love is when I go out which is rarely. I wouldn't rest if I didn't do them every day as Paul seems to bring in so much dirt on his shoes and I don't know why but it is annoying. I am particular about the bathroom too although we have a walk in shower and the floor in there never looks clean despite cleaning it every day.
I don't have a very strong tummy either love and I too have to be very careful.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by 3piggles on Oct 7, 2015 23:33:50 GMT
Does anyone remember the boot/shoe scrubbers that used to be by the door? Dirt and mud, and I'm sure other things, were scraped off boots and shoes by rubbing them across the bristles on the built-in scrubber. Here in the US, the barns often became connected to the houses with long sheds, so farmers could easily access livestock in the deep snow of winter, and so they could get the shovels, sleds, sleighs and other things out of the barn without having to go out in the cold. The outhouse we usually included in one of the sheds, as well. That led to leaving dirty, muddy boots in the shed, and putting on slippers of some sort, which led to mudrooms. I'd love a mudroom, and never had one. It's just a small room between the back door and the kitchen, where coats are hung, shoes and boots are left to dry, the dog's leash is kept, etc. It provides a buffer between the outdoors and the kitchen, so less dirty is tracked in. Obviously, if unloading the groceries, it helps to have a counter of some sort, or we'd just walk those bags right through the mudroom and into the kitchen I have only seen the two-handed eating/ cutting a piece, changing hands, eating, repeat, or the continental or European style. I've never seen all the meat and veggies cut up,then put down the knife and eat. I was also told, as a young child, that the cut one/eat one style was THE WAY it was done by posh people in the UK and EU. Load of hooey, obviously
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Post by jolovespiggies on Oct 8, 2015 19:50:48 GMT
Yes I remember them love, there used to be stationary ones outside some doors and if the weather was in the least bit nasty, you would automatically wipe your feet on them.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by 3piggles on Oct 9, 2015 19:45:35 GMT
Some of them were really interesting. I guess, if you're going to have one outside the door anyway, why not make it interesting. We had one that was a dog, with the brush in the middle.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Oct 10, 2015 16:48:42 GMT
Yes they do come in some cute and interesting forms.
Hugs Jo xx
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