Private Health

For as long as I can remember both my husband and I have had Private Health Insurance which has afforded us to choose the Doctor & Private Hospital of our choice when needed over the years.  If we hadn't of had Private Health Insurance I hate to think how long we would of had to wait on the waiting list at the Public Hospitals plus put up with the symptoms.

In our case, Private Health Insurance served us well & has truly paid for itself.

Many people say they can't afford the yearly fee.

It depends on what is important to each individual who hasn't taken our Private Health Insurance in their life.  

Of course there are several people who couldn't afford the yearly fee, especially those people who are renting a house at a costly rate, plus some single aged pensioners.

We have never had any trouble throughout our lives paying the fee, and yes, we have been through tough times at times.

Just a few of my thoughts on Private Health.

How's your Washing Hanging?

 

Towels not paired.

Have you ever thought about washing on a clothes line.

Are socks in pairs of the same kind!

Are underpants  of the male persons all together!

Are the women/children of the house's knickers all neatly put in place!

Are handkerchiefs if used all pegged together!

Are your white's snow white!

All of these things I was taught to be placed towards the inside of the clothes line.

Are all the towels put in pairs!

So you get my drift...thicker clothes on the outside of the clothes line and smaller items towards the middle.

I was also taught to hang the wet clothes in a tidy manner, plus your washing reflects upon your cleanliness and tidiness of inside your house and yourself. Being taught this when I went to school years ago I still try and carry out what I was taught regardless how strapped for time I am, and I am appalled at some women's plus men's clothes lines. 

I wonder what their houses look like inside.

A house inside I was taught should be clean and tidy but looked lived in.

How many women know how to iron a table cloth correctly these days!  Though not used often many of these items these days are geared towards easiness which is good :)

We don't iron much at all, if at all only when necessarily.

Thinking back I remember taking great pride in ironing, which included sheets, towels, table clothes, shirts with the seam at the back ironed, the serviettes white ones crisp and spotless.  Even to this day my 87 year old father has white crisp serviettes, of course I am refereeing to cloth ones.  Who does this for him, ME :)  At my home I use paper ones.

The Dunny!

Wonder how many people can remember 'The Dunny', 'Out house' or what ever you like to call it these days.  Few people have them now thank goodness but I have come to realize through my father 'the smell and acceptance of the inside toilet/lavertory'.

For those who are old enough and perhaps those that are not might recall if they visited their grandparents in the country more so on an isolated farm, there wasn't an inside toilet/lavertory, you had to go outside often a long way from the house to the toilet....

I myself can remember this :) oh, yes my age but my grandparents were old and lived till very old age and wouldn't have a toilet/lavertory inside, so as an early adult I remember the smell of the 'Dunny'. Dreadful! 

Now my grandmother would have white tissue papers on Sunday's off the bed in the Dunny, all other days was newspaper cut up into the right sized squares, a hole placed towards the top corner with a piece of string through it then hung on a nail, and it was these pieces of paper that we used to wipe our 'bum' :)

Well I mean you just have to laugh!

Now the newspaper was ok, for one would start to read what was written, tore off the next bit and hope it fitted like a jigsaw so one could read on, good it worked.  Sometimes reading a good story the jigsaw was not there and one was always left wondering.

I can only imagine what it must have been like, the fights, quarrels of having the dunny inside and the unkown of having a nice smelling dunny inside - today the toilet/lavetory.

Can You Believe it!

I downloaded some Nursery Rhymes recently and I was rather intrigued by a lot of them.

A lot of them are rather harmful, many are violent.  I suppose I had never really thought about that before until I started reading what I expect are the original versions.  These are free on the Internet to download. No Copyright.

The Old Women Who Lived in a Shoe.

I found out why 'The Old Women Who Lived in a Shoe' was living in a shoe..as I did with many of these Nursery Rhymes...it's no wonder many of these have been shortened to a 'nice version' in the Rhymes that I knew.

However, as an adult it good to read the full version of many of these Rhymes/Tales/Stories.