Do Less Ironing

This photo is from Saturday but, as I am going to continue the ‘Saga of the Ironing Board’, I thought it was appropriate. These dusters were embroidered by individual women from all over the world to illustrate - Women and Domesticity. Creating with dusters rather than using them I suppose.

I was so amused by the smartly dressed young man with the ironing board yesterday that I had to try and find out what it was about. Gordon suggested that he looked like an army recruit so I started there. And yes, as a few Blippers knew, on the kit list for those entering the army is . . . an ironing board. I know no more details than this, e.g whether it applies to all recruits or not.

When we got off the train at Darlington, waiting on the platform were a few soldiers in uniform and soon a guy in a suit stepped off our train (a different guy from the original one) and he was carrying . . . an ironing board. At least this one had kept it in its wrapper and had tried to put it into his luggage. He was escorted to a waiting coach outside the station. Eventually I suppose the coach would be filled with would-be soldiers . . . and their ironing boards.

I find this so amusing, and a little ridiculous. Why? If ironing boards are so important, couldn’t they be provided?

Anyway - here’s to less ironing (I hardly do any) and more sewing, loving and living.