Nappy Roadshow

Reading that Teignbridge are to hold a Nappy Roadshow sent my thoughts back to when my first baby was born. We had never heard of disposable nappies.

 

When I was first married we lived in a ocottage  on the Chatsworth Estate in Derbyshire. My husband's grandfather was coachman to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire at Chatsworth House. I never did understand why they were the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire living in Derbyshire 

 

The cottage we lived in had no mod cons like we enjoy today. I had to light a copper in the washouse to boil our nappies each day. But they did look good blowing in the wind all snowy white.That was how the neighbours knew when the baby had arrived

 

 I wouldn't like to go back to those days it was hard work, but much better for the environment and nothing in landfill

 We also had to pin them on with a large safety pin and very careful not to stick the pin in baby.

 

Today's reusable nappies are so much easier washing is  easy with today's washing machines. The cost over the time a child is in  nappies is colossal plus all the years disposable nappies take to disintegrate in landfill