Next time you decide to call first thing on a Saturday morning to announce that our mortgage is entirely one month’s payment in arrears, giving me a heart attack in the process, please make sure that the account is actually in arrears.
That is all.

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If you have reached this page because you typed ‘I don’t want to live anymore’ into your search engine, please know that there are people that care about you. Things might seem awful now but there are people who can help you to pull yourself back up. You can get help and you [...]

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There’s nothing more empowering than having your apron strings untied from the sink.
Unless you get untied from the sink so that you can trot off in a wool suit to your box on the terrace for every daylight hour and more besides, after which you will glamorously engage in up-to-the-minute witty banter with 40 of [...]

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(Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management, 1861)
While the world has moved on since 1861, the fundamental need for a repository of information on household management remains.  Arguably, the need is even more pronounced in 2008.
This guide is not an anti-feminist diatribe.  Nor does it seek to reposition women back into the kitchen, barefoot and [...]

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