I love getting visitors. Happily my cousin and her family are going to oblige me and visit for a couple of days. We’ll probably do the usual array of touristy things; monuments, museums, maybe the zoo. It’ll be great fun. I promised her I wasn’t going to clean. (Honestly, it would take me more days than I have to get it really clean.) But I’m reading through The Essential Handbook of Victorian Etiquette and apparently, I have some work to do. Or at least I have some shopping to do.
And I quote: Never send your guest, who is accustomed to a warm room, off to a cold, damp spare room to sleep. Have a warm pleasant room especially prepared for the guest, with the dressing table being supplied with water, soap, towel. comb, hair-brush, brush-broom, hat-brush, pomade, cologne, matches, needles and pins.
It seems like I’m all out of brush-brooms and hat-brushes.
