Every family has a story to tell. This is yours. Think of your favourite family holidays, recipes, jokes and often repeated tales. Wouldn't it be great to record them before they're lost to history? Harriet Green and John-Paul Flintoff are journalists who have spent years drawing the best out of their interviewees. Here they prompt you to do the same with your nearest and dearest - whether it be re-enacting an old family photo or crafting a letter to someone you miss, remembering much-loved family pets or quizzing your parents about their earliest memories. You'll become a doodler, detective, cartographer, historian, anthropologist, peacemaker and author. And most importantly of all, you'll be talking things over with the people that matter to you most, from grandparents to children. The more you put in, the more valuable this book will become; a moving, unique record of the people who came before you and something to pass on to future generations.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: gaining her bread by honest means. To suspect all servants of being thieves, or disposed to become so, merely because they are servants, is as silly as it is unfeeling. I should never hesitate to give my keys to a servant, when it happened to be inconvenient to me to leave company, any more than I should hesitate to intrust them to one of my own family; but this act of confidence is far different in its effects from that neglect which often proceeds from mere idleness, and, while it proclaims a disregard of the value of property, is the occasion of so much waste, and in the end proves as ruinous to the employer as it is fatal in the way of example to the servant. That " servants are great plagues" may be the fact; but I am, nevertheless, bold enough to assert that it is a greater plague to be without them. When all the hardships which belong to the life of a maid-servant are taken into consideration (which I am afraid they very rarely are), the wonder is, that the greater part of this class of persons are not rendered less obliging and less obedient to the will of their employers, and more callous to their displeasure, than we really find them. THE KITCHEN. The benefit of a good kitchen is well known to every housekeeper, but it is not every mistress that is aware of the importance of having a good cook. I have seen kitchens which appeared to be fitted up with every convenience, and certainly at considerable expence, which yet failed to send forth good dinners, merely because the lady of the house was not happy in her choice of a cook. I do not in the least admire epicures, or epicurism; and yet I would be more particular in the selecting of the servant who is to perform the business of preparing thafood of the family, than I should deem it necessary to be in selecting an...