devastating affect of electricity price rises, page-38

exactly - watso is long in the tooth - and recalls going to primary school - barefooted - and then having dancing lessons on the hot pavement - that made for a good sort of dancing - but a bit different to the "pride of erin". the fun was dork watso having to ask dork chickybabes, for a dance.

watso distinctly recalls high school - when the windows in the classroom were opened in the hot summer afternoons, in the the hope, that the fremantle doctor would come in, and have stayed cool enough, as the doctor wafted over the river - and into the classrooms.

now - it is all a closed system - everything has to be air conditioned - and the kids all wear shoes to school.

lol - watso only had a bath, once a week (that saves on hot water costs - well, the rocket at the end of the bath, was wood fired, and wood was free - but it was a big effort to fire the rocket up, every day) , and for the other 6 days he simply sat on the side of the bath, and washed his feet.

gee - none of this rubbish about having to change clothes every 5minutes, and tossing the clothes into the laundry - so much so, that the washing machine is being used every day.. yeah, in the good old days, the washing was one day per week - yep, in the good old days, the wood would have to be chopped - and there would be a fire underneath the "copper" - and then there was the scrubbing board, for that real dirty stuff.

a man married a woman, to do the washing, to do the cleaning, to do the cooking, to look after the kids - and in return, the man went to a thankless job, for 40 hour per week (to pay for everything)- and if a man was lucky, and if the woman still had energy at the end of the day, then perhaps if a man was lucky, then perhaps she could turn her adept cleaning hands, into hands, that pleased a man