| Phyllis
Sylvester
"I
found it very hard. Because you used to get help, there would be
so much help for me, if I had been at home in Jamaica. But I had
to do it on my own, no help, so it was hard.
Men
in our generation is "We go out to work and bring in the food;
you stay home and look after the children and the house". So
there was no coming and helping me to bath them and things, that's
my job, so it was hard, to me it was hard. You don't even expect
it you know, from the time he gets home from work, you have everything
done because that's what was expected of you.
I be
up in the morning take Richard to school, I'll be back for the others.
Once they gone to sleep I will do the housework, clean, wash, iron,
cook, and shopping done at night.
At
the time there was a supermarket in Catford that opened late. It
was a joy for me! I used to take washing to the laundrette, and
that have to be done during the day because my husband hate me to
go out of the house at all once he was in, I must be there."
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