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Spraying solves Woolsery Vicar’s problem

4.7.1958 Woolsery Vicar

The Rev P F H How, Vicar of Woolsery and Bucks Mills, who recently moved to the new Vicarage in the parish is very happy in his new home, but he and his wife have found one outsize domestic problem. Their eight-roomed residence contains no fewer than 230 window panes.
“Where you’d normally find one pane” says the Vicar, “we have six tiny ones. A parishioner pointed out that this involved cleaning 920 corners, and we’re now experiencing just how right she was.”
“But I think I’ve halved the problem,” he adds. “I clean the outside of the windows with a hand-spray (really meant for roses) attached to the well. Any suggestion as to how to simplify the cleaning of the insides will be more than welcome.”
Gazette article dated 4 July 1958

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