Utility Room Sockets

[westward10]

Yep and there was a little plastic perforated lid, to cover the wet clothes as they were spun dried, with the metal lid closed.

As it's Xmas, I can also remember my Mum using metal quadruple stove steamers, to cook the veg & Xmas pudding.

My mum's was a perforated rubber disc, those were the days.

 

[Rpa07]

I use triple steamers, sometimes leave one empty which totally confuses me - doesn't take much!

 

[Rpa07]

That has taken me back, my ma had tongs just the same they were always slippery and sleek on the wood.

That's the ones - kind of entrancing as a child - she would use the same ones for boiling my dads snotty hankies so I wasn't always enamoured with them!

 

[Midwest]

My mum's was a perforated rubber disc, those were the days.

I stand corrected, twas rubber. Bit early for pvc

 

[Midwest]

My mum used a pair of wooden tongs, metal sprung end that were so old that the wood was like velvet in texture (they saw some action) - a phenomenon as a child.

Seem to remember getting hit with them.

 

[Rpa07]

That's them - never got hit though - that's where the green garden cane came into it, an arms length plus 3 feet of cane she was still swift on her feet. I do love her, in her 89th year now we laugh about it!