MANGLES IN THE 21ST CENTURY

On Sunday we took the kids to Glasgow's Tenement House museum. Marcel and Charlotte had been before when they were little but didn't remember it. Of course the flat we'd sold in Rose street in 2007 was identical so it was interesting from that point of view.

In the kitchen an elderly female NTS rep explained all the ins and outs of the range, the built-in beds, the coal, the gas lighting and the mangle above the sink, which she demonstrated for Léon and explained to him in great detail. On our way back to the car I asked Pudge what had impressed him most and the wee sweetie replied, as only he can 'I liked the old lady's funny tumble dryer'!