Cricket balls, tennis balls... they'd often get thwacked into the shrubbery by those hard-hitting strong sporty people - or those that quite enjoyed killing 5 mins or so hunting for lost balls. Consequently, Nellie's most famous saying "If there aren't any balls.." Even my father would gleefully do this impressionLiz Jay wrote:I wish I could remember the context of "if there aren't any balls in the pavilion, it's because they've all been lost" ( x 2 or sometimes x 3). Whyever we we looking for balls?? I can't remember playing ball games for fun. Must have been a lesson.
How I would love to be a Domestic Goddess. But my CH experience has created in me a capability to do only one task at a time. All the bluebells, all the baths or basins (Gumption), all the polishing of tables with shoe polish? Incidentally, Barbara has related elsewhere that Fanny would get late-night-talkers-in-the -dorm up to do table polishing. Childline, too late for us!Liz Jay wrote:housework is good exercise
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