Domestic Staff Pillows

Servant reproaching mistress for not knocking before she entered the kitchen

Master of the house states that he will be detained in the city on business when he learns that there is cold mutton for dinner.

Butler

"Me, I think Master and Mistress are incompetent: why else would they need a butler, 3 maids, 2 cooks, 5 gardeners, a pool boy and 2 personal assistants?"

"Sir, all I'm saying is that, maybe just this once, we shouldn't discount the possibility that a butler did it."

Cleaner wringing out money from her mop.

Capturing a Cook

Boy delivering satin shoes and a mended fan for a servant

Maid revealing that her mistress wears a wig

Servant who has broken her mistress' new milk jug

Man revealing he is going to marry his cook.

Close of the season - The London footman exhausted.

Lady who thinks a servant girl has tried to imitate her curls.

"Oh, for crying out loud, Saunders — pet the dog."

The new groom is a very young boy who says he ought to understand horses because he has been amongst them all his life

Master about to find that the servant boy has let his library fire go out

Flunkey asking whether he is employed for work or for ornament

Flunkey asking for a larger salary and not happy to be compared to a lower order of clergy

Flunkey asking to leave because his employers keep no vehicle and he misses his carriage excercise

Footman talking to butler

A rival club

Servant dismissed by master

Servant Leaving - Because of the Missus

"Her ladyship isn't in—wait, yes, no—so sorry, she's out."

Housewife feeding her washing machine with a brief.

Man with 'Real Ale' written on t-shirt, woman with 'Real Pine' written on rolling pin

Ironing day.

"I don't do windows."

The household cavalry

George is pleased with himself. He replaced the toilet seat without calling a plumber.

"I have my pants put on one leg at a time."

"And this latest robot vacuum can fetch a glass of wine while it cleans your floors!"

"Congratulations, Figbert. I'm making you Vice President in charge of my wife's Honey-Do-List."

'Not bad. Already 17 minutes into Saturday morning before I receive my first ultimatum.'

Mr. Briggs' Pleasures of Housekeeping, part 1