In every street or road you see trees of some description.
It is the usual custom here for the people to buy a piece of land where they would like to live and then either build their own house, or get someone to build one for them.
Some build of weather board, some of asbestos, some of stone and some of brick, or brick foundations and whatever they fancy for the top.
Most of them are painted cream or stone or pastel colours. Some roofs are tiled and some are corrugated iron. The houses are all bungalow type, and all possess a bathroom and shower, also a separate laundry. These are quite a good idea.
There is a copper built in with brick, like we used to have at home years ago, and a double washing trough - that is two troughs side by side, very deep and a top for each. They are right next to the copper so that washing is made quite easy. It isn�t everyone who has a wringer, the folk just put the washing on the line and it dries sometime.
The air is clean and bright, and the clothes always smell very fresh. Washing here is never a trouble.
There are electric washers here, and electric cookers too, but most people can�t bother with them. There is no hot water in the houses.
The cooker is a wood stove. By this I mean a metal stove made for wood burning. It is fitted into the kitchen fireplace. They are very nice � green, or blue and cream enamel with a chrome top. You can have half a dozen pans on the top and also cook inside with the same burning of wood.
Coal is out of the question. Wood is bought by the load �2 for a small load which lasts a few weeks, and everyone has to learn to swing the axe. |
