Monday was wash day. Mother had a boiler in which the whites went first, then the safe colours ( the temperature had gone down a bit by now) and then one by one the colours might run.
A dolly was used to push the washing round the boiler. Mothers was three pronged and it would be bounced up and down, usually by me!
Then the rinsing would begin. Each load would be put in the sink and swished around in cold water, transferred to a bowl and rushed into the garden, no matter what the weather, and I then put the wet washing through the mangle. This procedure took place three times, before the item/s were hung on the line.
The mangle had rubber rollers and was a beast if you got a finger or thumb caught. But I was caught picking at the rubber as it had perished..... Oh what a hiding I got.
You can't even think of kids going through that nowadays can you?
My gran would put a blue bag in the whites. I can remember her have a gas fridge - one of the first made. It was wonderful after using a marble shelf in the pantry to keep things cold.
Another childhood memory is mother making a jelly one Christmas and she wanted it to set in a hurry as company was arriving soon. So, she put it outside on the kitchen windowsill - it had been very frosty, and it froze. I am sure you will know what happened next........ us kids weren't impressed with our dessert that day.