 So could you talk us through a typical day - we've got your
Father getting up early in the morning, complaining about having to get up so
early - because then he had to go to his own work of course. He got the fire
going then, what happened after that? Well,
actually it started the day before, or even before that - you had to make quite
sure that the washer woman - in our case she was called Frau Frei - and we had
her quite a long time, and that you confirmed that she was going to come on
that particular day, and she would arrive at seven o'clock that morning-but
before that - the evening before, my Mother used to put the - the washing had
to be put into soak and it was into a prewash and all the washing had to be put
into a special prewash - with a powder that was called Henkle and it always
worked with - in conjunction with Persil. When you bought Persil you also
bought Henkle because the two packets went together and great big bars of
Sunlight Soap were also used. So the washing was soaked over night and in the
morning it had to be taken out of there and started to - with the real
wash.
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