Pretty picture of the historical centre - quite easy though!

Another beautiful photo on the jigsaws today.
Hello Richard, hope you're well.

Where did June go?

This picture is great. I love old buildings and houses. My husband and I have purchased two houses during our short 18 years and both of them were from the 18th century. The first one was fun to remodel, the one we are in is proving a little more difficult. The house is More...

Not haveing all those things makes us realize how difficult life was earlier in time and how lucky we are!!! Nice puzzle...

ntd, I think we put up with these things because we simply didn't know any better. I remember my mother chopping wood to light the fire under the 'copper' to boil the clothes (Dad was away at WWII). She put the clothes through a wringer and hung them out to dry. We had no refrigerator, no vacuum More...

Amen and thank God for that, Ian!! Actually the last 200 years has had so many inventions and improvements--the last 50 years they have been coming fast and furious. One wonders what the future has in store for us!

Dear Ian from Sydney, I saw your picture and you didn't look that old. Australia must have been far behind the USA because I'm about as old as you and we had a clothes washing machine, an electric refrigerator, a gas stove and a vacuum cleaner. We didn't get a car, TV or phone til I was older.

I think the greatest advance was the internet so we can talk like this.

I chop wood for my slow combustion fire! I remember my grandmother putting her arm through the wringer with the sheet! We had an ice box fridge when I was 3 & we lived in Springwood in the mountains. My mother always washed the floor before the 'Ice Man' came, so he wouldn't think she was a bad housewife, then she complaned about the water all over her nice clean floor after he went!

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That's a wonderful picture, full of life & lovely old buildings!

In the '40s and '50s my mother, brother and I would leave Boston and go to the beach on Cape Cod and stay in a cabin for a month. We did have electricity and running water (cold only) but that was it for modern conveniences. When the ice man would come he would chip off a large piece for me and my brother. We had more fun with that than most kids now with ice cream.

Great photo! Kate I don't remember the iceman but I do remember Nanna's wringer.

Nice street shot. You guys are making me feel really young (I'm 37). The only things I can tell stories about is having only 3 tv channels and no computer or video games.

I can remember the Ice man coming, amongst a lot of others that delivered things - the fruit man, the milkman and baker, the grocer, the Waltons man and, of course, the dunny man!!!
BTW great pic!!

Great picture. You can take away most of the wonderful inventions, BUT, please don't take away my air conditioning. Now way could I survive in New Orleans without it.

Bluey--What is the dunny man?

Pat I do not envy you at this time and if ever you loose your AC contack me. Just thinking of New Orleans I feel sticky. Before the little one arrived my husband and I would run of a few weekends a year to...some place I cannot remember the town, to gamble on More...

Ian, you must be a few years older than me. I remember the same things. Now that we housewives have less physical chores, there's always more of other stuff.. like jigsaw puzzles... and trying to understand a computer with a mind of its own.

Dino--time management is getting really difficult. I have been out of school for a little over a month--might be two months--my house still has Christmas paraphilia out.
Though I have a great solution for child care. My childhood friends daughter is at the age where she is too old for a sitter More...

Karen, the dunny is a slang term for toilet, and before there was sewerage..... well you can imagine what the poor dunny man carried!

We only had 2 TV channels and the 5 of us kids were the remote for my dad. How times change.

I see that everyone (well almost everyone) is taking guesses at my age. Well, my birthday is next Monday (2nd) and I shall reveal all. In the meantime, guess away - I am not sensitive.

OH! I really must have been going through a dumb moment when I asked what a dunny man was. Because once explained the light bulb in my head went off.

12/28/07

Children think they'd got it hard now and say they are bored but if I said this when I was growing up I'd have to clean the house, cook, iron my families clothes and hoe the garden, pick beans and what ever else I have to do for saying such a thing. My mother could always find plenty for me to do. Good picture. January 26,08