Why the world does not revolve around baby boomers

Young people keep telling us that baby boomers are a selfish lot who always want their own way and think the world revolves around them. What rot! The world is not designed around baby boomers at all.
If it were, mobile phones would have 27 inch TV screens and typewriter keyboards so we could see [...]

Words of wisdom from Mrs Beeton

I love reading old household management books and my favourite is Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management. I had to share this lovely recipe for restoring whiteness to scorched linen.
INGREDIENTS.–1/2 pint of vinegar, 2 oz. of fuller’s-earth, 1 oz.
of dried fowls’ dung, 1/2 oz. of soap, the juice of 2 large onions.
Boil all these ingredients [...]