photo credit: lille abe - annoyed by the pro account At 81 years of age, my grandmother still cleans her kitchen floor every day with a rag, on her hands and knees. She tells me that by scrubbing it by hand she gets a better clean than she would get with a mop. I don't [...]
The Plasma Generation may find this a bit hard to believe, but you can't have it all. Despite what mummy and daddy have been saying all these years, you can't have everything you want "as long as you want it enough" unless you have about as much ambition as a soggy sock. So for those [...]
There is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly-cooked dinners and untidy ways. (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 [...]
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Beyond Beeton is a post-modern guide to household management inspired by Mrs Beeton’s 1861 Book of Household Management.
