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Moon's getting fat and bright again.
I think the Science Museum in London has lost the plot. Apparently they had a popular gallery full of household gadgets—down to a cut-away toilet that flushed a plastic turd—and rather than replace the interactive exhibits that are getting old and wonky (like the toilet, which has been loved to death), they're going to close it down and put everything in remote storage. Because they don't want to encourage "nostalgia". I think what they're really doing is sneering at engineering. What a shame. I hope there's an outcry.
(The article also contains airy statements about people spending just as long cleaning their homes now as before modern conveniences; ignoring the hours the maid(s) would spend sweeping, beating carpets, making fires and clearing out ashes, blacking the range, polishing the woodwork and the silver, boiling linens in a copper ... not to mention the making of clothes and the from-scratch cooking. Ah, the invisible servants even before the chap's mother's invisible toil.)
I think the Science Museum in London has lost the plot. Apparently they had a popular gallery full of household gadgets—down to a cut-away toilet that flushed a plastic turd—and rather than replace the interactive exhibits that are getting old and wonky (like the toilet, which has been loved to death), they're going to close it down and put everything in remote storage. Because they don't want to encourage "nostalgia". I think what they're really doing is sneering at engineering. What a shame. I hope there's an outcry.
(The article also contains airy statements about people spending just as long cleaning their homes now as before modern conveniences; ignoring the hours the maid(s) would spend sweeping, beating carpets, making fires and clearing out ashes, blacking the range, polishing the woodwork and the silver, boiling linens in a copper ... not to mention the making of clothes and the from-scratch cooking. Ah, the invisible servants even before the chap's mother's invisible toil.)
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I'm willing to bet it comes down to money, and how much it would cost to replace the exhibits.
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However, I would be surprised if we did as much ironing as we did in 1974, as we wear less cotton. We surely also spend less time on food preparation due to the increased availability of chilled meals for microwaving and the increase in takeaway / takeout food options. Dishwashers are also now almost as ubiquitous as in the US, hampered only by kitchen size.