The women living in the villages don't usually have cars or access to supermarkets so enterprising young (and old) men drive carts around with the more commonly used cleaning supplies, such as simple soaps, detergents and the old fashioned rusts-away-in-your-hands steel wool to clean the enormous aluminum cooking pots they favour. These things and a bit of elbow grease leave the pots glistening in the sun.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Housewives' Helper
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It's always good to have helpers!
fasinating picute. where was this taken?
I love how your photos show everyday things, interesting portrayal of another culture.
This was taken this morning while I was out riding along a canal in Giza.
Fantastic picture!
I learn so much from your blog. Look at that enormous bundle of steel wool. I remember the feel of little steel splinters in my hands from using the old stuff.
Congrats again on being Blog of Note!! :)
Our local guy rings a bell and this of year totally sounds like one of those street Santas. LOL
Congratulations on being the blogger of note.
Nice blog you have here! I hope to visit Egypt one day, and till then I guess a daily visit to your blog might help.
Congratulations on becoming a "Blog of Note". This looks like a interesting place to visit - I've added your link to my must-read list.
Nice blog..
Congratulations on being Blog of Note today, Maryanne. You more than deserve it! I always enjoy your photos and commentary about a world that is so different from mind. The world may be shrinking but it will be a long while still before all lifestyles around the planet come to an identical standard. And in the meantime, our city daily photo blogs provide an amazing chance to learn about daily life in other parts of the world.
Maryanne, Your photographs take me back 30 years to some of the happiest days of my life, the three months I spent living in Gurna, across the river from Luxor, working in the Valley of the Kings in 1980. I was afraid all the old ways had disappeared. But I see they continue. What a beautiful, heartbreaking place! And how lucky you are to have made the wise decision to stay on! Have you read Penelope Lively's memoir of her Egyptian girlhood? I suspect she grew up not far from you.
Essa daki eh PIKA, HEIN!
great image
Great picture, I was curious like Jules, where did you take the picture?
nice post, friend!!!!!!!
please visit me back!!!!!
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Thanks for sharing your travels and photo.
Nice information. Thanks you^
Nice articles.Thanks for the interesting articles. By reading your blog I can find the answers to my question. I hope you will continue posting an article having a useful information. I wall visit again later.I will wait your other interest posting. Thanks so much!
It's always good to have helpers!
Fantastic picture!
Yay! One of my favourite blogs is Blog of Note. That's so cool, well done :)
Congrats!
To be selected as "blog of note". Keep it up.
Nice collection of daily life pictures; all the way in your blog.
Well, I like what I see what you printed... "expect the unexpected".
I'd like to explore the world if given the chance, and yes... blogs as yours are wonderful to people like myself. Got street pics and relevant narrations.
How's life in Giza? If a Singaporean were to migrate there, what's the big deal in admin?
Do they welcome foreigners? That part you are showing seems to be a nice neighborhood to be in...
I like where I live, but I speak fluent Arabic and find it funny when things don't work. Most people who move here have to work in the city and there aren't too many rentals out here. I always advise people who think they want to move here to come for a visit to see if they really like Egypt for starters.
Congratulations of being a blog of note! I really enjoyed your blog. The photos and descriptions are beautiful. Thank you for this glimpse into another way of living!
Your blog is simply wonderful!!!!
I'm searching for interesting things online, and the: Your Blog!!
Nice.
I'm Brazilian, and I hope you to keep sending your wonderful messages...
OOOoh! This Ozarks farm chick's Hubby could use some lessons here. Hubby's rules are anything that touches the house here on the Ponderosa is HOUSEWORK. Hubby does not do housework.
I just wanted to give ya a big old CONGRATULATIONS from the Ozarks hills and hollers. Have a fab day!!!
That's really cool you made it as a 'blog of note'.
Congratulations!
im new on here but good blog how do you use this website and if possible can people go onto my page/blog and read it and comment
Sounds like the pioneer days in the American West.
I love your blog with its captivating pictures and pithy summaries of life in a place so foreign yet appealing to most of us.
{You may remove this bit before posting, or not post at all - I won't know or care. May I make a tiny correction? (Once a grammar teacher, always a grammar teacher...) This post's title should read "Housewives' Helper" or Housewife's Helper"-- the first indicating that he helps many housewives, or the second that he helps each one.}
Anyone who clicks on your name will go to your Blogger profile which has a link to your blog. Blogger is really very easy.
kk thanks, ur blog is really good and nice picture
Tried to post a comment last night, but must have pushed the wrong key. In any case, I wanted to congratulate you on your annointment as a Blogger of Note, which brought you to my attention. I'm grateful for that, since your photo blog reassures me that the old ways of Egypt are still in place. I lived in Gurna, across the river from Luxor, and worked in the Valley of the Kings for three months in 1980 and fell in love with the country and the people. I envy you your decision to stay. Have you read Penelope Lively's account of her girlhood in Egypt? I think it's called Oleander, Jacaranda, and it seems to me she grew up near Giza. Anyway, I'll be checking in daily from now on.
Lovely blog, wonderful pictures. Either housewife's or housewives' helper would be correct.
My husband and I went to Egypt about 4 years ago.
While in Cairo we saw a lot of old men with carts - like the "Housewive's Helper" - but loaded with green vegetation. We always wondered what that was? To us it looked like a huge pile of weeds on the back of a flatbed cart and donkey-drawn.
These carts would brave Cairo's traffic right along with the cars which you know is really crazy at all hours of the day and night.
Molly
That probably would have been either berseem (a kind of clover) or garawa (a kind of grass) to either be used by the owner's animals as feed or sold to housewives who might be keeping poultry and such at home.
Great information!!!
Thanks for the comment. great pictures keep them coming.
Happy Holidays!
Congratulations !!!
Really interesting pic..
Congratulations!!!
I love your pic..
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