That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 08, 2016

“We should have never let the staff unionize.”

In many period novels, genteel ladies wash the tea things at the table while the conversation scintillates.

“Can we talk!”

“Hmmm…maybe I should have washed my delicates BEFORE you did the dishes.”

AND A KITCHEN SINK . . .

If it means we can eat something other than clear broth, I’m changing to darker clothing!

" When your finished washing away the traces of poison, I’ll wipe off the prints. "

“All right, Salome, I’ll get ahead with this dish” .

Now that it’s winter, we should check the air pressure in our sleeves; your left one looks like it’s running a little low.

..perhaps we ought not to have washed the chamber pot first. You may want to move it away from your left foot, too…

Ladies who lost the bet on who would be the next U.S. president.

2 URLs (copy each as one line):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louise_Jopling_-_Blue_and_White,_1896.jpg

has info and links that point to info about this painting (best viewed by Google Chrome – can automatically translate linked pages, if necessary).

http://amershamhistory.info/people/19th-century/louise-jopling/

has a short bio for this artist.

So far, this isn’t in Mr. Melcher’s blog, accessible by the Check Out The Blog! box in the right hand column. Perhaps it’ll be there later, like yesterday’s did.

You just don’t trust the good china to the help.

Ew…er.

Next on Downton Abbey: Lady Grantham makes Edith do all the dishes by herself coz she called her sister Mary a “stuck-up b***h” at tea*time.

The sleeves is where they hide the drying cloths.

I only wear these sleeves to hide my steroid induced biceps.

In Victorian times most women succumbed to peer pressure and got “sleeve augmentation”

Whats that thing in the back, on the floor?