 What about mending? Oh yes, when I was first married there was a certain day of the
week when you did the mending. Wednesday afternoon, and the children used to
play, they'd have the boxes and funny things they'd play - play with the
buttons on the floor,and you would get on with the mending. Yes, everything had
to be mended in those days.
In the war years of course it was make do and mend. You
darned, if you had a little hole in your stocking you didn't throw it away as
you do now, you darned it! And I mean, as you know children fell, so they had
their knee through their stocking, so that had to be darned. Children didn't
wear long trouser then.
I've enjoyed sewing, my good little sewing machine, I
used it till quite recently. I don't know what you'd have done without one. As
I say, you had to make your own curtains and bed linen and children's clothes.
You would have been lost without a sewing machine.
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