The Husband Who Was to Mind the House The Husband Who Was to Mind the House The Husband Who Was to Mind the House is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their "Norske Folkeeventyr". It is Aarne-Thompson type 1408 The man who does his wife's work. A husband complained so much about his wife that she suggested that he stay home and do her work. He agrees. He starts to churn butter, but decides to get ale. He hears the pig upstairs, runs to stop it, but does not arrive in time to keep it from overturning the churn, and forgets
The Railway Children (1970 film) Children" turned out to be a critical success, both at the time of its release and in later years. The story follows the adventures of the Waterbury children, who are forced to move with their mother (Dinah Sheridan) from a luxurious Edwardian villa in the London suburbs to "Three Chimneys", a house near the fictional 'Great Northern and Southern Railway' in Yorkshire, as their father (Iain Cuthbertson), who works at the Foreign Office, has been imprisoned as a result of being wrongly accused of selling state secrets to the Russians. The three children, Roberta (Bobbie) (Jenny Agutter), Phyllis (Sally Thomsett)