Having only the one maid means that I have to do a great deal of things for myself. One of the things I do is the ironing and have done ever since Jessop, my ironing lady died five years ago. I don't mind doing the ironing once I get started on it, I just feel it's such a miserable way to spend the morning.
I know what you mean. I almost had to bathe myself once when my shower butler passed himself on.
ReplyDeleteI bought a commercial steamer years ago and haven't iron a thing since.
It must have been awful for you and how inconsiderate of your valet to pass on like that, leaving you in the lurch. When Jessop died suddenly aged 81, I went to say farewell to her at the funeral home, she never wore an ounce of make-up when she was alive and when I saw her laid out in the coffin, she looked like a french clown, I told those in charge of the funeral home, that my roaring laughter was due to a nervous reaction.
DeleteThe last time I used an iron was to heat transfer the registration numbers onto a sail, about 12 years ago
ReplyDeleteWow 12 years without ironing, do you wear a lot of polyester?
DeleteI don't have any option... seams need pressing, interfacings ironed into place... hems to be pressed... Fuck i hate it... But purchasing a quality iron with a built in water well is a boon... No more trips to the well to refill when the steam runs out... life is good!
ReplyDeleteYou have the creme de la creme of the iron world, I have evaporated milk!
DeleteI just wear all my clothes wrinkled and mutter, loudly. People seem anxious to leave me alone.
ReplyDeleteWhat, all your clothes?
DeleteHello Mitzi:
ReplyDeleteIt saddens us just a little that a glamorous lifestyle, in which Morrison's daintily cut and garnished sandwiches are often the norm, is reduced on occasion to ironing. Could you perhaps advertise for a new Jessop?
I have made enquiries they charge for pick-up and delivery and then it's per item, £3.50 for a duvet cover, 60p for a pillow case, they can go and jump! I'd be forever totting up. I paid Jessop £10 per hour and she ironed beautifully, even though she used to drip fag ash all over the house.
DeleteLast time I picked up an iron was to throw it at the telly when Michael Gove came on. x
ReplyDeleteA quick google to see what Michael Gove looks like, I quite understand your action. He's got one of those faces a bit like that smug Edward Windsor that One would never tire of slapping.
DeleteI don't iron in winter...
ReplyDeleteSorry, I am distracted by your fine new header!
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Not even a quick cursory once over? But you've got such beautiful hand writing, I am surprised at you. The dog is gorgeous, I call him Lawrence.
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