Boy Helen, You are a youngster. I remember learning to write with a straight pen with a nib and dipping it in the inkwell. I even had to learn how to take shorthand like that!! We did have fountain pens in senior school but they were filled with a lever from an ink bottle. I also remember the paper milk bottle tops before the foil ones.
An early memory is helping Mum in the back yard with the washing in a tub which I guess was a copper and having a thing that looked like a 3 legged stool at the end of a stick which was used to swish the washing around. Mum could wring the washing out by hand until there was hardly a drop left. She must have had good arm muscles. :-) We did eventually get an electric washer with a wringer on the top. It is amazing to think of all the developments we have seen in our lives. I learnt to type on the old Underwood machine. That was hard going. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org ----- Original Message ---- From: Helen Bell <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, April 13, 2010 3:31:55 PM Subject: [lace-chat] RE:snapshot of my life. So this dates me some, but the copper was before my time, but I learnt my penmanship with a fountain pen (cartridge sort by then) in primary school, and I remember getting up early in the mornings to look out my bedroom window in the dawn to see the milkman delivering the milk bottles (with foil caps) by horse and cart. Mum would take me to the dairy when she paid the bill and sometimes I'd get to see the horses there :-) I also remember the old wringer machine we had. I knew of some of the items on the list - about 14 of them, and yes, I knew about Studebakers - seems like one of the boys at primary school talked about them or had a parent who had one. Cheers, Helen, in drizzly, mizzly Duvall, WA. To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected].
