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A hotel housekeeper cleans a window at sunset in Cancún. Thanks for viewing! Wishing you well as you squeak through the week :)
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Next to the kitchen , where she would do all her mending and resting.....Baddesley Clinton Moated House 13th Century
Our Daily Challenge 8-14 October :These Humans.
Ralph is at ease with his old ladies, and neither he nor they need to say much.
This lady used to be housekeeper for a judge at Crufts, and also look after his dogs which I think were Red Setters, who can be completely bonkers.
She tells the tale of them clearing the tea-trolley whilst she answered the door several times each visit.
This short term memory loss will happen to many of us at her age.
Different kind of mushrooms living together on an old tree stump. The housekeeper is a little spider. I tagged him in the photo, but you cannot see him clearly, so I took another photo, where you can see this spider.
This morning I heard the song "We are family" by Sister Sledge on the radio and immediately I connected it to this image ;-)
We are family
I got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up ev'rybody and sing
We are family
I got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up ev'rybody and sing.
Plas Newydd was home to the Ladies of Llangollen and their friend and housekeeper, Mary Carryl. In 1768, the two young women from the Irish landed classes, met in Inistiogue and became great friends. However, ten years later, both Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby found themselves in difficult situations. Eleanor was about to be sent to a convent in France, while Sarah was fending off the advances of her guardian's husband. They decided the only way out of their problems was to leave Ireland and look for a place where they could find peace.
They arrived in Llangollen in 1778 and in 1780, they rented the small house high on a hill above the town and quickly began making it their home for the next 50 years, eventually buying the property in 1819. Here they devoted theselves to self-improvement, farming, gardening and house-improvements. Apart from extending the building, they began decorating both inside and out with some of the most ornate wood carvings imaginable. There are two fonts within the beautifully restored grounds that are rumoured to have come from Valle Crucis.
The Ladies of Llangollen became legends during their own lifetimes, with regular visits from famous and cultured people such as the Duke of Wellington, Sir Walter Scott and William Wordsworth, as well as those who were just curious. The era of these remarkable ladies came to a close when Lady Eleanor Butler died in 1829 and Sarah Ponsonby following two years later. They are buried in Llangollen churchyard with their friend and faithful servant of many years, Mary Carryl.
For one week, in one town, over fifty countries gather for one of Wales’s most unique experiences. Last July over 120,000 performers and festival-goers from all over the world visited Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in the picturesque Dee Valley, North Wales. This cool and cultural event, considered as 'Wales’s gift to the World' was established in 1947 to promote peace and goodwill between nations through music and dance.
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Dernier Week-end avant Noël! Êtes-vous prêts? Vos cadeaux sont-ils emballés?
C'est ce à quoi s'active la dame de maison de mon petit manoir Tudor! Pourquoi pas se gâter en même temps, voyez-vous le plateau de biscuits de Noël et le verre de lait?
Bon week-end!
Pour voir l’ensemble de la maison et de ma collection de miniatures, visitez mon album « Mon petit manoir Tudor » : www.flickr.com/photos/jdeslandes/albums/72157719866719476
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Last weekend before Christmas! Are you ready? Are your presents wrapped?
That's what the housekeeper at my little Tudor manor is busy doing! Why not treat yourself at the same time? Do you see the tray of Christmas cookies and the glass of milk?
Have a wonderful weekend!
To see all the house and the rest of my miniatures collection, visit my album “My little Tudor Manor”: www.flickr.com/photos/jdeslandes/albums/72157719866719476
The housekeeper opened the door and let a man in, dripping wet. She offered this man a bed for the night. But, no, he didn't desire hospitality – he wasn't staying long – for it was revenge that he craved ...
For ages I’ve been wanting to try out Mike Doyle iconic smoke technique and combine it with the more modern ‘dish’ technique. If you thought the title sounded familiar, well fret not it’s actually taken from the Bob Dylan song Shelter from the Storm, which, alongside Norwegian Wood, inspired me to build this for for CCCXX’s Colossal Castle category and Brickscalibur’s ‘Where’s Waldo’ Category. Within this build, therefore, is hidden this man whom lit the house, can you find him? If you think that was too easy, try find a Death Star, a mouse and a frog!
Romildo, I was thinking that our life is more like a forgotten cemetery than a beautiful house with great emotions. Clotilde, I do not think the same, but tell me what are you thinking? , ok I want to make a costume party to celebrate our 100 years of marriage. -Great idea, my beloved wife we already have costumes, ... Romildo we should make the guest list. THINK: Cotorina, our daughter and her current boyfriend "Desenfreno", Constancio, our gardener, Pocho y Pocha, our friends of bridge, Mortaja, our housekeeper, although we said goodbye for useless, we could invite her, Regret, your intimate friend of the bar and so that they know how good people we are to Leveau and her husband Juan. -Clotilde? It's not that I do not want them to come, but they seem to be from a well-to-do social class, and I do not know if they would like to participate. You know they live in a castle, surely they inherited, and our house is just a two-story house. I know, Clotilde, why do not you ask her to do the party in her castle? Good idea Romildo, .but they should have their own guests, .. ahhh, I did not think, ok we'll see what they think. Clotilde, I love that idea, because in a moment of carelessness could bring me to Gloglo, ... ..Romildooooo!
Ahhhhh, those who want to participate are invited.
Romildo, pensaba que nuestra vida es más un cementerio olvidado que una hermosa casa con grandes emociones. Clotilde, yo no pienso lo mismo, pero dime, ¿qué estás pensando? Quiero hacer una fiesta de disfraces para celebrar nuestros 100 años de matrimonio. -Gran idea, mi amada esposa ya tenemos disfraces, ... Romildo debemos hacer la lista de invitados. PIENSA: Cotorina, nuestra hija y su actual novio "Desenfreno", Constancio, nuestro jardinero, Pocho y Pocha, nuestros amigos de bridge, Mortaja, nuestra ama de llaves, aunque nos despedimos por inútiles, podríamos invitarla, Regret, su amigo íntimo del bar y para que sepan lo buenas personas que somos a Leveau y su marido Juan. -¿Clotilde? No es que no quiera que vengan, pero parece que son de una clase social acomodada, y no sé si les gustaría participar. Ya sabes que viven en un castillo, seguro que han heredado, y nuestra casa es sólo una casa de dos pisos. Lo sé, Clotilde, ¿por qué no le pides que haga la fiesta en su castillo? Buena idea, Romildo, pero deberían tener sus propios invitados... ahhh, no lo pensé, ok, veremos qué piensan. Clotilde, me encanta esa idea, porque en un momento de descuido podría llevarme a Gloglo, ... ...Romildooooo!
Ahhhhh, los que quieran participar están invitados.
Cajsa Warg (born in Örebro) was a Swedish housekeeper and cookbook author. She's also one of the best-known cooks in Swedish history.
She left home early to be the cook and housekeeper for several powerful people in Stockholm.
In 1755, she inherited 5000 daler from her mother when she died. The same year, she published "Hjelpreda I Hushållningen För Unga Fruentimber" ("Guide to Housekeeping for Young Women") which was published in fourteen editions of which the last version was printed in 1822.
Her work was the leading cookbook for several generations and remained relevant until the late 19th century when new household goods, industrially manufactured kitchen stoves and changes in cuisine made most of its recipes outdated.
Daler (Thaler) was an international coin and coinage system based on a given silver content used primarily in Europe.
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When frightened the tail goes up (like this one) and they scoot off at 90 mph.
Genus Tamias, Tamias being Greek for "treasurer", "steward", or "housekeeper" based upon their collecting and storing food for the winter. They have convenient cheek pouches to assist in the effort.
Also have been known as timber tigers. :-)
Eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus)
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Front of a former motel and house of gambling ill repute at the top of a hill in the nevada desert.
Night, near full moon. 180 second exposure, completely dark interior, protomachines set to blue, red and white.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!
A scarecrow housekeeper created by the cleaning company "More Grime than Time?".
Seen at Scarecrows in Kellogg Park in Plymouth, Michigan, where individuals and groups display custom scarecrows for Halloween.
The new Mrs Nyland had already been starting to develop some unease about the swiftness of their courtship and marriage.
But now, in her husband's sprawling, cold and empty mansion on the bleak, isolated moors... and under the chill, knowingly superior (and disapproving) stare of his housekeeper - who he'd conveniently neglected to mention to her - the worrisome whispers, that she'd previously dismissed as spiteful and jealous gossip, about the handsome Fitzwilliam Nyland were starting to echo louder in her mind...
MY FRIENDS, ONE MORE IMAGE OF MY ODYSSEY SERIE............. WISH YOU A FANTASTIC WEEK!....LOVE
here the LINK to all the SET.....(thanks Iris!)
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Book XII - XXII en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey
He finds his way to the hut of one of his own former slaves, the swineherd Eumaeus. Odysseus disguises himself as a wandering beggar in order to learn how things stand in his household.
After dinner, he tells the farm laborers a fictitious tale of himself: he had led a party of Cretans to fight alongside other Greeks in the Trojan War, and had then spent seven years at the court of the king of Egypt; finally he had been shipwrecked in Thesprotia and crossed from there to Ithaca.
Meanwhile, Telemachus sails home from Sparta, evading an ambush set by the suitors. He disembarks on the coast of Ithaca and makes for Eumaeus’s hut.
Father and son meet; Odysseus identifies himself to Telemachus and they determine that the suitors must be killed. Telemachus gets home first.
Accompanied by Eumaeus, Odysseus now returns to his own house, still pretending to be a beggar. He experiences the suitors’ rowdy behavior and plans their death.
He meets Penelope and tests her intentions with an invented story of his birth in Crete, where, he says, he once met Odysseus. Closely questioned, he adds that he had recently been in Thesprotia and had learned something there of Odysseus’s recent wanderings.
Odysseus’s identity is discovered by the housekeeper, Eurycleia, as she is washing his feet and discovers an old scar Odysseus received during a boar hunt; he swears her to secrecy.
It has been a very enjoyable few weeks over here in the UK, visiting with so many old friends and partners in crime – from the wonderful Rita Brasshouse of the Hampshire Women’s Institute to my former housekeeper and most fabulous-ever lover, Mrs Hilda Danvers.
We have decided to organize a Seventieth Birthday Party for Hilda at The Salon, and I have placed her amazing daughter Mandy (aka Lady Amanda Barclay) in charge of the event. My own birthday gift to Hilda (she does not know this yet!) will be to offer her free access to all of the professional ladies who happen to be in residence at the time. The ladies of the corridor this week include the amazing Lady Hester Binks, Lady Wilhelmina fforbes-Fortescue, Lady Alice Grainger and Lady Audrey Worthington - not to mention our visiting German Ladies, Baroness Ilse von Hoffmanstal and her two very hot friends!
The cost of this gift - if purchased by one of our regular clients - would easily run into six figures. But this is the least I can do for the wonderful Mrs Danvers, who has supported me and loved me body and soul through thick and thin!
Toodle Pip!
Love and Kisses to All My Friends and Fans!
xxxxx
Lady Rebecca Lyndon
Duchesse de la Baleine d’or
Provincially, our C-19 emergency measures have just been extended until the end of the month - giving us plenty of time to look around our own backyard. As it turns out, my wife, who is the gardener in the family, noticed we have new neighbors. She noticed that a pair of Robins decided to start a family and we can just spot the nest through the branches of a nearby cedar tree. It's interesting to watch Mom and Dad in action as they take turns to look after the young. Before approaching the nest, they'll stop in two or three spots - the same every time - and look around to see if a predator might be watching. When the young hear them approach, they stretch high up to be fed. What I haven't figured out is how Mom and Dad keep track of who is getting fed. All three little ones seem to be doing well so they must have a system. The parents are good housekeepers too - picking up the droppings, which seem to be encapsulated, and removing them from the nest. With all this activity, it's a busy time for them to rotate 15 minute feedings and noisily chase the Grackles and Chipmunks away.
June 3rd Addendum: Sadly, when my wife checked this morning, something found the nest last night - likely a raccoon - and consumed the nestlings. Parts of them were found at the base of the tree and one remaining baby, although still intact, was on it's last breath. Nature has no mercy when it comes to survival of the fittest.
Tonkinese cat, Snoopy Adams was given to me by Jennifer Adams. Jennifer's father is John Adams, her grandfather's name is also John Adams, and this goes way back in time to the 2nd U.S. President, John Adams. The reason I became the owner of this charming cat relates to Snoopy's tendency to cause occasional damage to furniture with his claws. Jennifer is a fastidious housekeeper and everything has to be perfectly intact and meticulously clean. Poor Snoopy was not a good fit for Jennifer! She paid almost a thousand dollars for Snoopy because he came from a showcat line of Tonkinese kitties! I'm not as fussy about cats doing a slight amount of damage now and then, so it worked out well for Snoopy and me! Jennifer Adams is a very interesting complex person. I'll not talk about her however.
She doesn't mind people knowing that she is a descendant of the 2nd President, but nothing else. Luv ya, Jennifer; hope you're feeling well and enjoying life! ❤🐱❤
An 1887 photo of the William G. Hacker Residence at 1055 North Lawrence (now Broadway) . Family members and a housekeeper are posed throughout the various porches. Note the lawn sprinkler (left). By 1896 this house had become the home of Levi S. Naftzger, prominent local banker. This home is believed to have been designed and built by William Henry Sternberg (1832 - 1906). This home has several strong Sternberg design features including multiple highly corbelled chimney flues, a wooden fence (very similar to other confirmed Sternberg properties like the Miller Residence), multiple functional porches on the first two levels and decorative porches on the third level (3rd floor porches too small to be functional and of a style known to be used repeatedly by Sternberg), a broken roof-line with multiple angles, pitches and dormers as well as fancy milled woodwork. Reports of other Sternberg-designed homes report an abundance of colored glass windows on the third floor. This home also has a number of colored glass windows (only on the 3rd floor). Compare the wooden fence here to the fence on the C.R. Miller residence (a confirmed Sternberg design) and notice the striking similarity.
The Hacker Residence at 1055 North Lawrence (now Broadway) was next door to the John A. Wallace home at 1021 North Lawrence. The Wallace home is a confirmed Sternberg-designed and built home. In the picture here, the Wallace home would have been just off to the left. Images of the Wallace home have been posted to this photostream. Note the wooden sidewalk out front of this house and the carriage and buggy sitting in the "driveway" to the left of the house. There appears to be a short "railing" on one side of the sidewalk. Was that to keep people off of the grass?
This house was painted in several different colors. Unlike Victorian homes today which tend to be painted in brighter colors (yellows, pinks, lavendars, purples...), Victorian homes in the 1800s were indeed painted multiple colors, but those colors tended to be browns, greens, cream colors and other more muted colors. Paint in the late 1800s was not the quality we can get today, but it was surprisingly durable. Paint has been around for thousands of years, but in the very distant past (like over 150 years ago or so) it was hard to make and its quality was far from what we see today. Paint is comprised of two main ingredients: (1) a pigment (for color) and (2) in the late 1800s, a binder (frequently boiled linseed) with some thinners to make it spread better. Boiled linseed oil dries faster than raw or unboiled linseed oil and makes a good base for paint. In the 1500s, 1600s, 1700s and most of the 1800s, paint dies were agriculturally grown (plant-based) vs. being manufactured chemical composition. Some organic plant-based dyes include: indigo (for the color blue), Cochineal (red), Lady’s Bedstraw (vermillion red), Puccon roots (red). Powdered malachite can be used as green pigment. Lambsquarter and pond algae can be used for greens. Yellows can be obtained from curly dock root and sumac root. Winged dock is a nice yellow orange pigment. Walnut hulls, boiled or soaked in water, produce a dark brown stain and pecan hulls, processed the same way, produce a lighter golden brown stain. Many other organic dyes (both domestic and imported) were used as pigments. In the late 1800s, Central America, especially, was coming up with newer and brighter colors that were as yet unavailable in the U.S. and initially were quite popular. Ships plied the waters from South America up to New Orleans bringing boat loads of colorful organic dyes which ended up in linseed oil-based paints.
To make paint, pigments were then added to oils or glues or glue-like substances such as gum from the acacia tree (gum Arabic). Around 1850, synthetic dies were discovered (zinc oxides). Zinc oxide pigments were less expensive to incorporate in paint than the imported organic pigments and quickly went into mass production. In the 1860s and 1870 paints continued to improve in quality. Linseed oil was being mass produced and was one of the basic ingredients of paint at the time (1860s – 1870s). In 1870, Henry Sherwin and Edward Williams formed the Sherwin-Williams company and spent ten years trying to perfect a paint formula where fine paint particles would stay suspended in Linseed oil. In 1880 they succeeded in developing a formula that was sold as “ready-mixed” and far exceeded the quality of all paints available at the time. It was then that emulsions based on similar formulae, were produced and marketed as 'oil-bound distempers'. A “distemper” is the name used for a glue-based paint, so these emulsions, marketed as "oil-bound distempers", were really a hybrid of an oil-based paint and a glue-based paint. In 1880 the new Sherwin-Williams paints were readily available in tins throughout the country including Wichita and they were available in a wide range of colors. They were available at the local hardware store and came to Wichita by rail road. Within 10 years of beginning production, Sherwin Williams paints were being exported all over the world. Wouldn't it be grand to see this Hacker residence in its original paint colors!!
Your thoughts, ideas, comments and/or additional information as welcomed and appreciated!
This photo is courtesy of the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum, (www.WichitaHistory.org).
I have some wonderful news about my housekeeper’s daughter, Mandy Danvers!
As you will all know, since Mandy completed her courtesan’s training whilst working as receptionist here at The Salon, she has been operating as a freelance call-girl, based at Madame Entrevue’s Gloucester Road establishment. And very popular she has proved to be with the Entrevue clientele – which is more exclusive than any other establishment’s except The Salon itself! Now I have learned that the Duke of Linlithgow himself has proposed to Mandy, and that the couple are to be married - as early as February of this year!
Once the wedding is completed, the adorable Mandy will become Lady Amanda Barclay, and – as a pukka aristocratic wife – will be eligible for immediate admission into the Sodality and for employment at The Salon! Her mother is SO proud! Mandy’s future husband well understands the kind of woman his wife-to-be has become, and apparently relishes his inevitable, unending, and shameful cuckolding! Men!!! So many of them (starting with my own husband!) long for marriage to a beautiful trophy wife, only so that they can be ruthlessly cuckolded by her!
The wedding will be one of the premier Society events of the year! In the absence of a father, I will doubtless be asked - as her past and future Madame - to give the bride away. After all, a well-run brothel is very similar to a close-knit family. I will also definitely be organizing for Mandy one of our special Sodality Honeymoons, to which the poor cuckold groom will not be invited !!!!! There is an unofficial record (held by me!) for the fastest cuckolding of a new groom by a Sodality wife. I understand that Mandy plans to break this record - with her hubby’s full approval and co-operation, of course. And good luck to her!
I am so very proud of the future Lady Amanda Barclay – as I am sure all of you here are as well !!!!
Toodle Pip!
Love and Kusses to All!!
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Lady Rebecca Georgina Arabella Lyndon
Duchess of Basingstoke