I dream a dream…
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Try hydrogen peroxide. It totally neutralizes blood stains and red wine, maybe it’ll work on this too!
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I have a teeny one that works a treat! Gives enough steam to do a couple of blouses at a time or one floods dress.
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Doxycycline is a bit oily? At least the chicken flavored doxycycline the Very Old Cat is taking is. I’d definitely use some Dawn.
I don’t remember the pink amoxicillin staining too badly, so I think it should wash out.
The Very Old Cat hates the doxycycline so much that she gags it up. Super fun.
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I’m loading up an e-reader and giving it to my mum. I’m having a problem finding things she will want to read. I’ll ask my dad for ideas, but maybe you have some too?
She likes:
Jane Austen
Books set in England
Madeline L’Engle
She doesn’t like:
Anything scary or intense
Anything sexy
Seriously, even kissing is suspect
Anything that challenges her conservative christian worldview
Wholesome, but lean into the everyone is straight and white kind of idea
I need some help, here. I don’t read the kind of books she likes and I can’t stomach getting those family friendly christian romance books. I’ve gotten her a bunch of classic lit stuff but something written in the last 100 years would be cool.
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All I can think is Lion Witch and the Wardrobe?
….maybe some old school Winnie the Pooh.
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Oh wait definitely those red hat romance ones. 
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How does she feel about historical fiction and/or mysteries? The Brother Cadfael books by Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) were super popular at the conservative church I grew up in.
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There are Christian cozy mysteries - not scary, not sexual, etc. How about biographies of the patriarchy? History of her ancestors” country(s)? Biblical history?
There are also Bible apps - like a passage a day, quizzes, etc. she might like.
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Georgette Heyer is who you want for your mom. She basically invented the Regency Romance genre and wrote dozens of books. They are witty and charming, but not sexy. Plus her worldview was such that everyone being white and straight is a given.
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You are all smart and lovely.
I’m finding a lot on Project Gutenberg.
I hate almost all of the books I’m getting. This is a shit assignment. Why did I give it to myself?
Off to find her a copy of Little Lord Fauntleroy.
Puke.
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Enola Holmes, Alan Bradley, LM Montgomery.
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Joanne Fluke’s chocolate chip cookie murder mysteries fit the bill until about book… 15 or so? At which point
Spoilers on the off chance
It’s heavily implied that she sleeps with a man and falls in love with him. There may be some on-screen kissing after this? But don’t worry, she gets her comeuppance for her vile behavior when after she married him, she finds out he was already and still married and tries to get her to give him a bunch of money. /s
It’s very Midwestern.
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Agatha Christie?
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All Creatures Great and Small?
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Oooooh I need to re read these. I LOVED these as a kid.
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I was inspired to re-read because we watched the new BBC adaptation, which is quite entertaining in a relaxing way.
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So inflation was wicked high through the 70s into the 80s, until interest rates went crazy high to ramp it down, yeah? So my question: how did raises work during a decade plus of insane inflation? My understanding is the people were still pretty company loyal back then because everyone still had pensions and stuff right? So how did raises work, did companies actually give like 10% a year raises to keep up with inflation, or did it just massively eat into the middle class and create a new poverty class? anyone who has studied economics and/or was alive then, can you share your understanding and recollections?
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I’m curious about that too and don’t know the answer, but I got really curious about pensions a while ago and one surprising thing I found out is they weren’t really that ubiquitous. In 1950 only about 1/4 of private sector workers had a pension, and I think the highest that ever got was 1/2 of private sector in 1960-1970 before beginning a steady decrease over the next decades. It’s kind of interesting because I definitely had the impression (from how people talk about it) that practically everyone had a pension for forever until recently. Not so, apparently. It seems like it was a pretty short lived thing in work history? I also found out a lot of them were apparently really poorly managed and had bad returns, and some failed to deliver what they said they would, which I didn’t know. Super fascinating, I hope someone can answer your question!
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According to my parents who worked white collar jobs back then, they were getting big raises every year but mostly treading water. Sometimes they would get a random raise because the new hires were coming in at higher rates than people with experience. I was talking about this last week with them and they kind of had a haunted look in their eyes. Their first mortgage was 17.5% interest.
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