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Re: Mallett's Mallet
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:24 pm
by 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!
Re: Mallett's Mallet
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:36 pm
by 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.....
Re: Mallett's Mallet
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:26 pm
by midget
water
3(probayellow dresses introduced in 195bly to celebrate 500th and/or Coronation)
Re: Mallett's Mallet
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:52 pm
by kerrensimmonds
bed
as in 'water bed' - though thank you for that explanation about the dreadful yellow dresses, Maggie!
Re: Mallett's Mallet
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:05 pm
by Sallz
duvet
(Im starting to feel a strong sense of longing for my housey coat at this point)
Re: Mallett's Mallet
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:36 am
by Jo
blankets
just to remain topical, tartan ones 
. Doubly appropriate in fact, as I was in Edinburgh over the weekend.
Re: Mallett's Mallet
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:15 am
by Sallz
itchy
Re: Mallett's Mallet
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 1:03 pm
by 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
Re: Mallett's Mallet
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 1:17 pm
by Great Plum
odour
Re: Mallett's Mallet
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:01 pm
by Sallz
deoderant
Re: Mallett's Mallet
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:21 pm
by Sean
Shower
Re: Mallett's Mallet
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:22 pm
by gma
complete
(!)
Thank heavens for the no yellow dress ruling by the time I got there,
I'd have looked a right lemon 
)
Re: Mallett's Mallet
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:15 pm
by kerrensimmonds
utter
Re: Mallett's Mallet
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:49 pm
by Sallz
idiot
Re: Mallett's Mallet
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:12 pm
by kerrensimmonds
village