the wrist magically normal again
I paid my mother-in-law a visit - her back is bad and household chores are accumulating.
The job that most needed tackling turned out to be ironing - it didn't seem fair to mention that I'm the world's worst ironiste so I got started ...
After a while we decided that I might be more usefully employed in the garden.
So that I wouldn't feel bad about the ironing, mother-in-law listed the two other people (both children) who are worse at ironing than me.
Lentils or Pottage?
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Peter E. Gordon, reviewing Paul Reitter’s Englishing of Capital in the LRB
(3 April 2025; archived), provides one of those analyses of translations
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But you are good at cooking, and printing, and textiles... being good at ironing as well would be greedy.
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so true xxx
DeleteGood news on the wrist. I hope the stitched gum is better than that sounds.
ReplyDeletePS: If it would help, I could be added to the worse ironers list. The last things I have "ironed" are plastic pouches for laminating cards and photos.
Maybe I should set up a self-help group - for the "ironically-challenged"?
DeleteI have, after many years, achieved a wardrobe of minimal-iron clothes. Sadly, the items that do need ironing are tricky buggers.
ReplyDeletemy talent for ironing in wrinkles is boundless
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