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About Me
- Susan Harwood
- It's one of those odd things . . . I live in my little house by the sea and listen to the radio and reckon I know best about more-or-less everything . . . as I keep telling the news-casters, the policiticians and all the experts interviewed there. I shout quite loud - but I'm beginning to suspect they can't hear! Sometimes, I write to my MP . . . but there's always more to say. So, here it is!
BOOK ON A BLOG
THE BRICKS IN THE CAVE - A full length children's adventure story by Susan Harwood - click on the book to read it.
ANOTHER BOOK ON A BLOG
TIMES RHYMES - For people who want to learn 'Times Tables' the easy way!
4 comments:
I'm not sure what kind of conversation you are trying to strike up here but this made me giggle.
Lisa . . .
This is linked with an earlier post (4th January).
Downstairs loos in new houses are often built close to the front door. To me, this seems such an impractical place, I wondered why.
One contributor suggested this sites it close to the drains . . . but our upstairs bathroom is above a completely different part of the house, so that isn't the reason.
Another suggested it is is so we don't have to grant visitors access to the rest of the house . . . but that would mean the builder anticipated we'd have visitors coming exculsively to use our downstairs loo and go away again . . . which isn't very likely . . .
Did you ever read a book called THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE - by Betty Friedan?
I read it a long time ago so I don't know what I would think of it now . . . but, at the time, it influenced me quite deeply.
She suggested that companies making cleaning chemicals had duped women into viewing housework as a kind of scientific process for which they needed lots of different chemicals.
Thus, while 'housewives' were busy feeling proud that they were 'experts' in knowing which chemicals to use on which surfaces . . . the manufacturers were busily selling them bottles and aerosols of chemicals that they didn't really need.
This still goes on.
Having a loo by the front door is part of it.
Phenominal quantities of chemicals get bought in an attempt to keep it shiny and fresh-smelling.
On the other hand . . . if you have an outside loo . . . you don't have to be quite so fussy!
Susan
Nothing, if you live in a warm country.
Colin . . .
You are allowed heaters, even in outside loos!
Susan
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