Sir, – In these straitened times, we must look to the old days for housekeeping tips. I knew people who wallpapered around furniture, gave the cat flour and water, ate the goldfish on Good Friday, and in the evening, crumpled red and yellow crepe paper into the fireplace and huddled over it until bedtime.
They lived well into their forties. – Yours, etc,
EUGENE TANNAM,
Firhouse,
READ MORE
A helping hand with the cost of caring: what supports are available?
Matt Williams: Take a deep breath and see how Sam Prendergast copes with big Fiji test
New Irish citizens: ‘I hear the racist and xenophobic slurs on the streets. Everything is blamed on immigrants’
Crucial election weekend begins amid campaign as bland as an Uncle Colm monologue on Derry Girls
Dublin 24.