Have you ever taken anything back out of the dirty-clothes basket because it had become,relatively, the cleaner thing? How many things are there, at this moment, in the wrong room – cups in the study, boots in the kitchen – and how many on the floor of the wrong room?
She also asks if you could confidently strip down to presentable underwear in a changing room at short notice, and argues that a slut isn't something you become, it's something you are born to.
I thought it was hilarious. My Mum looked at me in bewildered incomprehension.
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I much prefer the more formal term, Slattern to describe my slovely, unkempt ways.
Slattern is one of those words, like Whore that just sounds better with a Scottish accent, no?
Have you ever taken anything back out of the dirty-clothes basket because it had become,relatively, the cleaner thing?
Well, yes, just this morning, in fact. But my underwear is impeccable.
Oohh dear...
Ms Mac: I'm quite fond of the Scottish word "besom" too.
Christina: I hasten to add that my underwear is impeccably clean too, but sometimes a little grey.
Lucy: It's good to have standards to live up to though.
Is that besom as in Besom broom, Lesley?
Have plenty of yellowing articles by Katherine Whitehorn sent to me over the years by my mother. This makes me want to read them again!
I better not go into what I take out of laundry basket/state of underwear/number of mugs and glasses in all the rooms.
Anyone out there who loves to laugh at articles could try Michele Hanson who writes for the Guardian.
As my mother likes to say, "It's all right if it's clean dirt."
By that I think she means if it's your own.
Presentable underwear in a changing room....hmm, do people still wear underwear?
Besom is pronounced Bism in Aberdeenshire. To quote my grandmother, it means someone who is No Better Than She Should Be. I've never managed to perfect the sniff she usually added after saying that.
I am proud to be a domestic slut. Life's too full of far more interesting things with which to occupy oneself.
A neighbour in The Weeg once took me to task for having dirty windows. I told her one didn't notice such things when one was busy reading.
Deborah: yes, I think that the woman word is derived from the broom word.
Teuchter: I say bizim.
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