Washing on the line

L was out this morning so I hung the washing out when the machine stopped. I didn't seperate the mens and womens underwear, as my Grandme used to. She was born in 1878, a real Victorian, with their values and Morals. Fiercley English, she survived 2 World Wars, despite the efforts of the Imperial German Luftflotte, Zeppelins, and lastly the Luftwaffe. Her descriptions of life in London (she lived by Aldgate) as a young woman, of bringing water from the pump, spreading straw on the cobbles to deaden the racket of horses hooves and iron cart tyres.there were 250,000 horses in London then, can you imagine the smell on a hot Summers day ? Also of flirting with the "Young Bloods" as she called them, who waited at the Horse Bus stops to get a glimpse of ankle as the ladies got on the bus, such a different World, and she saw it all,from Oil lamps to the Moon Landing and took it in her stride. She died aged 96, and that link died with her. R.I.P.We miss you still Grandma.