Monday WashdaySometimes we may mour

Monday Washday

Sometimes we may mourn the passing of objects, which, over the years have become lost. However there is no remote possibility of me ever mourning the passing of laundry aids of yesteryear. How many children today would know what a copper stick was? I remember it well and am glad to see the back of such a long-winded process of doing the washing.

Our olden laundry days consisted of a wooden stick, approximately a yard or meter long and about an inch across being held one end while the other end pushed the laundry into the copper. The copper was a round-ish concrete receptacle, built into the corner of a room, called a scullery. The copper was filled with water and then dirty linen was placed within. Underneath the copper was an opening with a small door into which wood was placed and lit to heat the water. When hot enough the copper was used to push the laundry underneath the water.

An item called a washboard (yes, like the hillbilly instrument) was used on which to scrub the dirtier items of clothing using a block of soap. The next procedure was to haul out the soggy laundry with a pair of wooden tongs, fold the dripping items and place them through a mangle. The mangle was a large piece of equipment with two rollers at the top in which the items of laundry were placed, held with your left hand, while the right hand turned a large wheel in order to squeeze out all the drips. Repeated again, and again, and again until you had a piece of damp material rather than the previously sopping wet mess.

This was the procedure of washdays in our grandmother’s day and virtually took all day to complete – usually referred to as ‘Monday Washday’. It’s hard to imagine today with our washing machines and driers busying themselves while we have a coffee! I think we can celebrate the fact that the dreaded procedure of washdays have all been superseded by my wonderfully automatic machine: the Bosch.

Results (English) 2:

星期一洗衣日

有时候我们会缅怀逝去的对象，其中，多年来已经失去了。然而没有远程可能我永远悼念过去的艾滋病通过洗衣。有多少孩子今天会知道铜棒是什么？我记得很清楚，很高兴看到这样一个冗长的过程，洗后

。我们的旧洗衣日由一根木棍，约一码或米长一英寸宽的被关押的一端而另一端把要洗的衣服放进铜。铜是一种圆形的ISH混凝土容器，内置到房间的一角，称为洗碗。铜是装满了水，然后放在脏衣服。下面是一个开放的一个小铜门为木被放置和点燃的热水。当足够热的铜被用来推动衣服下面的水。

一项叫搓板（是的，像乡下人乐器）是用在擦洗脏项目使用一块肥皂的服装。接下来的步骤是长途的潮湿的衣服和一双木钳，把滴物品放在机。损坏了设备大片顶部，洗衣的项目被放置在两个辊举行，用你的左手，而右手变成了一个大轮为了挤出所有滴。重复一次，又一次，直到你有一块潮湿的材料，而不是先前湿淋淋混乱。

这是洗衣日在我祖母的一天，几乎花了一整天的程序来完成–通常被称为“星期一洗衣日”。想象今天的我们的洗衣机和烘干机忙于虽然我们有一个咖啡很难！我想我们可以庆祝的洗衣日可怕的程序都被我奇妙的自动机器取代了博世。