elegant. they had a player piano and was one of the few homes that had carpet on their living room floor. we were not permitted to play in there all the time, and we thought it a treat when they’d open the door and let us in to be where the piano and the leather chairs were and the things that meant a lot to them.
i remember as we’d go for holidays that was a little bit special, we’d pack up our dishes and take them with us because there was a large family. grandmother used to have a cooker, they called it a steamer. it was square and they 