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MARY’S DIARY THE WAY WE WERE

The Reminiscence Newspaper Sunday 27th February 2011

27th February, 1953.Dear Diary,I’m jolly glad I am finished with school! Some politician or other has introduced a Bill to try to introduce easier spelling. That sounds like a good idea at first, but surely you’ve got to learn proper spelling eventually. It must be like learning everything twice.

Joyce has been helping Mother with the Spring cleaning. She has talked about it so much that you’d think she invented it herself! I’ll lend a hand at the weekend. It’s too late to start after work.

A lot of women say they hate ironing but I used to quite like it. I could listen to the radio and let my imagination paint pictures in my mind. It didn’t need much thinking about, as long as you didn’t day-dream too long with the iron in one place and scorch things!

It must have been much harder work when flat-irons had to be heated up in the fire. How did people avoid getting sooty marks on the clothes? I remember my grandmother’s flat irons. We used them later as doorstops but I never thought to ask her about them.