pondering

[burntcopper]

seperis just wrote a story that involved what servants actually do in a big castle, and this is rousing memories of the first time I watched Edwardian Country House (reality tv experiment where they made people *live* it in full Upstairs Downstairs mode - if you can get your hands on it, it's a fascinating social experiment) and yelling at the tv at the scullery maids who couldn't hack it - seriously, most of the first ones had never even done their own laundry before. Because I'd *done* that job in my teens. Slopping things out, cleaning, non-stop washing up, scrubbing floors - the only difference was that I'd done it for 8-hour shifts, not 14-hour ones. Still came home stinking and shattered. It's called Burger King and understaff in restaurants.

So, out of curiosity, how many of you lot did the equivalent of scullery maid/hall boy jobs?