Blackboard in the Kitchen

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 49, 31 May 1940, Page 45

Blackboard in the Kitchen

Dear Aunt Daisy, I thought you might be interested to know how ‘handy I find a small blackboard and a piece of chalk in the kitchen. When your session comes on the air I'am generally washing dishes, and when I hear some recipe I would love to have, I just tot it down as you dictate ix, and then later write it down in my recipe book at my leisure. I know you will appreciate the uses of my blackboard as I know you have been a teacher; and when I say my four children use it endlessly for working out difficult sums in homework, or spelling difficult words, or making diagrams; and also that the groceries to be bought are listed on it, you will realise it never looks blank. Even my neighbours know about my little blackboard, and yesterday morning, after you gave the ingredients for the pastry for the "Prize Apple Pie,’ a young housewife dashed over to see if I had taken the recipe down, for she had only heard the last bit of it, ‘and didn’t want to miss it. So there you are, don’t you think it is a good idea for busy mothers? It does save the search for pencil and paper, and the children save lots of time in doing something which really should be done straight away. By the way, if I know I may be later home than the. children from _ school, before I go out I just leave instructions for them on our blackboard, which everybody consults. -"Another Ex-Teacher,’ (Lower Hutt). A splendid idea. Many thanks for the suggestion.