Mallett's Mallet

[gma]

warrior

I must be losing the few marbles I have left! I only remember those awful blue pinafores with stripey blue and white blouse in summer and a yaggy red tartan one in winter with cherry blazers for sunday!

[kerrensimmonds]

tank
you are younger than I am, Gerrie. You did not have the ghastly yellow dresses for Sundays in summer, phased out around 1960, I guess. Their main attribute was to attract the green fly and black fly from e.g. the tulip tree outside the back of 5's - which, although 'protected', managed to die naturally during the redevelopment of the site and which is no longer there.....

[midget]

water
3(probayellow dresses introduced in 195bly to celebrate 500th and/or Coronation)

[kerrensimmonds]

bed
as in 'water bed' - though thank you for that explanation about the dreadful yellow dresses, Maggie!

[Sallz]

duvet
(Im starting to feel a strong sense of longing for my housey coat at this point)

[Jo]

blankets

just to remain topical, tartan ones . Doubly appropriate in fact, as I was in Edinburgh over the weekend.

[Sallz]

itchy

[kerrensimmonds]

sweats
think that is what they were called. Barbaric means of bringing down a temperature, employed in the Infirmary in Hertford in the 50's/60's. Give the patient a Beecham's powder after lunch, strip them off, wrap them tightly in any itchy blanket [so they can't move], lie them down on the bed for... how long? - seemed like forever - and let them 'sweat' out the temperature

[Great Plum]

odour

[Sallz]

deoderant

[Sean]

Shower

[gma]

complete

(!)Thank heavens for the no yellow dress ruling by the time I got there,
I'd have looked a right lemon )

[kerrensimmonds]

utter

[Sallz]

idiot

[kerrensimmonds]

village