Diary Of A 1950s Welsh Housewife



I get up before the Prof and make sure I am neat and tidy for the day ahead.
I check my reflection in the bathroom mirror before anything else
Hair perfect....make up discreet .....apron straight!
Now to prepare breakfast.
The Prof has his boiled egg and soldiers in bed with a strong cup of sweet tea, he is reading Boffin's Weekly.
I wake the children. They are such naughty children too as none of them want to get out of bed in the mornings! No pancakes for Winifred this morning as I notice she has put on too much weight recently. An extra few laps around the hockey pitch is the order of the day me thinks.
Men don't want to see extra large knickerbockers airing on the clotheshorse do they?
That sort of thing gets their roving eyes started .
After checking that William, Mary and baby George have washed behind their ears, it's a brisk walk around the village before breakfast and out they go to play.

I need to get cracking with my chores.
After quick race around with the old ewbank and some elbow grease with a duster and the house is looking all spick and span. I change into a clean apron and bang out a dozen jam tarts and meat pie before running hubby a nice hot bath.
I've already laid out a fresh cardigan for him to wear.
While he soaks I pop on my coat and hat and picking up my wicker basket I trot to the village shop.
Mrs Trellis is buying her usual quarter of tea and a French fancy as I wait in line.
Tut tut tut I think , " a moment on the lips a lifetime on the hips !" But I say nothing...I'm far too nice.
Mr Jason the shopkeeper gives me a wink and says he's got a Cumberland sausage just in with my name on it, we laugh gayly.
I politely refuse Mr Jason's sausage and purchase instead three slices of ham and a tomato for the Prof's tea. Keeping your man fed and watered is the sure way to maintain a happy marriage my
mother always told me....oh and acting like a right whore in the bedroom helps a bit too!

To be continued......

83 comments:

  1. There is no way that your hair is ever perfect in the morning, John!!!

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    1. Don't forget to comb your goatee and wax your mustache !

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    2. Well it used to be but them I was in school

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  2. Oh fabulous John, I can't wait for the next instalment - sounds like one of the Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups.

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    1. The next episode is The Welsh 1950s Housewife goes to town

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  3. Bwahaha. The whole thing had me snorting and then the best was your wise refusal of the shopkeeper's sausage.

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    1. Never ever accept the offer of a sausage from a dark stranger

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  4. Ha!
    Boffins weekly? must be due to old age

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    1. It was the " readers' wives " page he was looking at

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    2. Weekly = weakly...... see? old age!

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  5. Bloody hilarious :)

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  6. It hadn't dawned on me till now that the Prof has a live-in BUTLER! I trust that your 'butling' remuneration is adequate - with guaranteed annual increments.

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  7. The last line slayed me! Hahaha!

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  8. Brilliant John, absolutely brilliant

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    1. Thank you darling, you can thank my troll for it

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  9. I really mustn't drink coffee whilst reading your blogs....it always ends up splattered over the laptop screen. You're so funny, John.

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  10. It used to be said that the perfect wife is a lady in the drawing room, an economist in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom ;) I only ever managed one of them..............

    S

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  11. Ha, Ha, Ha! now wiping coffee off my I-Pad...

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  12. You are describing my life perfectly! As if you could observe my every waking moment! (Don't tell anyone about the stashed and hidden bon-bons under the organic kale in the vegetable drawer of the refrigerator. A girl must have her treats.)

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  13. Anonymous4:30 pm

    Which job do you prefer John? Psychiatric nurse, skivvy indoors or the whore. Lol

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  14. I didn't know you wore makeup.

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  15. Ewbank....OMG, it's just a Hoover. But, you did get my interest early.

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  16. I don't know why but this post reminded me of Freddie Mercury in the video for "I Want to Break Free" - pushing a vacuum cleaner.

    I am already looking forward to the next instalment.

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  17. Living the dream, hey John

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  18. Nice to see you back on form John!

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  19. Hoot! Easily the best of many good lines here: "I politely refuse Mr Jason's sausage." Indeed, pray continue!

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  20. Glad to know you're keeping your man satisfied. I hope his most comfortable slippers were ready and waiting.

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  21. Anonymous6:14 pm

    Sounds uncomfortable. Aren't Cumberland sausages coiled up ?

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  22. To take a malicious comment from a previous post and turn it into this comedic interlude is nothing short of genius.
    Fantastic!
    Don't forget to warm the profs slippers too.

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  23. I laughed gayly too! Brilliant!

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  24. Laughing cheerily with you and your wonderfully clean aprons. Love your amazing Norge gas stove too.

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  25. Thanks for the laugh John. Particularly liked the bit about Mr Jason's Cumberland sausage.

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  26. I went from a solemn Remembrance Day post to yours, John, and the contrast could not be greater :) Looking forward to the next instalment and I hope you were not just teasing us!

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  27. Cumberland sausage! Wow!

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  28. Well... I want a picture of you in an apron! One with the frilly straps and flower patterns.

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  29. Looks like things are back to normal now, John!!

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  30. You need help, John. I'm going to send you over a copy of The Feminine Mystique and a CD of Helen Reddy singing "I Am Woman." If that doesn't cure you of all this unhealthy fantasizing, I'll have no other choice but to report you to Gloria Steinem. She'll talk some sense into you.

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    1. John, that ship sailed long ago, but you're adorable anyway.

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  31. Have I missed something? Who is baby George?

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  32. I do the exact same thing over here in Wisconsin. It's amazing how similar our lives are. Sausages and eggs in the morning will get them every time. Us housewives(husbands) know just how to keep those guys happy and garroulous.

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  33. Brilliant, and oh so true. I am glad you declined the shopkeepers sausage.

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  35. no wonder why I'm so happily divorced...

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  36. You crack me up John. I was taught to always look my best for my husband. I put the doo on everyday. Cleaned the house, tended to the children. I had tea ready when he came home. Dinner was served about 5:00 and I served him and our children. A tigress in the bedroom at least 4-5 nights a week. But, I digress, I now serve the gamer and care for my 3 gingers Tiger big boy, baby Raja who never grew up, and Whisker’s crooked tail and most importantly my grandsons Zayn and Atlas. I do miss the back and foot rubs! 😉🤣😜

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  37. Yup, just another ordinary day!

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  38. Stepford wives wannabe, tea splutteringly good!

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  39. Hahaha brilliant John !I did a skit on the original one, for my Mother of the Bride speech, at my Daughter's wedding. The Son in law wasn't amused lol 😁😂😁

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  40. How come you didn't have to light the range, fetch the water in from the well, check there was sufficient newspaper in the privy for the Prof's ablutions.

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  41. I knew this was a lie the moment I read "I am neat and tidy"

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  42. I feel honoured that I have made the book ....

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    1. I wonder who will play me in the tv adaptation ?

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    2. Claire loathes nigel havers ...says he looks like a cockroach...so please. , no Havers

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  43. Love it. You just described my usual sort of day too ... only I trip down the garden path in my gingham pinafore to throw corn to the fluffy white chickens and gather warm brown eggs before breakfast.

    Have you by any chance been hitting the Christmas gin a bit early..........

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  44. Only three slices of ham for Prof's tea? Is ''tea'' a snack or dinner? Because if it's dinner you're gonna have a cranky hungry hubby tonite [last nite].

    John, I know I am sense of humor challenged, but I really prefer your more real posts, trolls and all. And can you reconsider taking posts down, it spoils the blog dialog continuity when you do that. For ex, if someone missed the removed posts from earlier this week, this post is somewhat baffling.

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    1. And it is a sort of troll pisstake

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    2. what is piss-take: an act of making someone or something look silly
      I had to look it up.

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