OK, can you make a Victoria sponge? I can but big deal. What good is it to me unless I’m auditioning for Masterchef? Anyway if you can’t don’t worry. For you are one of a growing breed. A breed that is young mothers–young mothers without domestic skills.
Oh shame on you. Not only do you have to look like Claudia Schiffer three months after giving birth, apparently you also need to be Martha Stewart.
A survey issued by an oven manufacturing firm (WTF) found that three-quarters of young mums could not make gravy from scratch. Isn’t that what Gravox is for?
So as well as non-gravy making skills, there is also a shortage of knowledge about how to starch a shirt. Only 12% of young mothers know how to do that. Gosh, imagine that 12% can do that. Why do they starch shirts. I don’t think my mother starches shirts.
Here’s the complete list of desired young mum skills. How do you rate?
- Bake a Victoria sponge
- Make pastry from scratch
- Knit
- Sew
- Make jam
- Arrange flowers
- Starch a shirt
- Sew name tags in to clothes
- Darn socks
- Make a fancy dress costume
- Bake bread
- Sew on a button
- Make curtains
- Make gravy from scratch
- Bake a pie Image
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I thoroughly maintain I can do any of those things, if I want to..
Mostly I don’t!