Good evening, and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you

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Now, let's read and relax.

Find a comfortable spot. Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in

let it out slowly

and off we go.

Tonight we continue our months of fresh recordings of some very old episodes, with a brand new reading of one of your all-time favorite books.

The Book of Household Management

Compprising Information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchenmaid, Butler, Footman, Coachman,

Valet, Upper and Under housemaids, ladies made, made of all work, laundry made, nurse and

nursemaid,

monthly wet and sick nurses, etc, etc.

Also sanitary, medical and legal memoranda, with a history of the origin, properties and uses of all things connected with home life and comfort, by Mrs. Isabella Beaton.

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