Fins very much crossed for you.
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Thanks, Fishers.
Soo xx
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And I have leopards tails and paws crossed Soo
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Which reminds me, I really ought to have something to eat.
But I have taken a chunk out of the side of the Ikea duvet cover so it will fit an Imperial duvet – circa 1975, my family were early adopters; it’s one of the ones that lived on the spare beds at my parents’ house and were rarely used, but it has been thoroughly reconditioned recently. Duck down, you see, that was the only sort my sainted Mama knew about. My own one that she got me for my birthday when I left home died long ago; hers I suspect were dry-cleaned every year and treated a lot better, as well as not getting used every night.
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Proper fevvers and down are wonderful
I fondly remember eiderdowns as part of making a proper bed with layers of wool blankets and an eiderdown atop the wool blankets and liken sheets that were sent to the laundry every week on Tuesday and returned on Thursday starched and ironed
Hospital corners on each layer of blankets and the sheets
Grandma was head housekeeper in the local 5 star hotel and she had a passion for comfy warm bed linen
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I’ll take boring every time. “Exciting” generally means something’s gone wrong
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Oi, that’s my patch!
Coming across it at night really is rather splendid.
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I once watched the dawn happening all over that church while waiting (on the steps in the doorway of a bank, which led a policeman to Look at me) for it to be late enough to go and scrounge breakfast from a friend in Camden.
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It’s not, actually. James Savage designed it. (St James’s Church, Bermondsey.)
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Yeah, and one had to kick like hell to get the buggers untethered so one’s feet would not be bent flat to the mattress. Or maybe that’s just me, but I for one welcome our new downy over bed hingmys.
The glacial cold of some of those beautifully made beds.. 
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I am all fer Orsepiddle Corners, but you have to put the tucks in the middle on both sheets & blankets.
My feet hurt at the thought of the tightness & yes, the coldness.
Good feather/down duvets need airing & shaking every day. I know that all bedding needs airing every day, but you know what I mean.
Carinthia. xx
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The addition of a Bengal is a good warming feature inn a bed too
Those beds with sheets blankets counterpane and eiderdown were also when bedsprings and unsprung mattresses were a thing so you ended up in a banana shaped hollow in the actual bed where one shivered under the tight bed clothes that did not actually touch one
A lot to be said for deep mattresses on wooden slats with winter and summer weight duvets
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[yaaaawnity] tseep. Morning all. Could someone turn down that magpie? [outraged squawrk, off] thanks.
yardarm
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Sunday brunch of Ulster fries on the sideboard
Stretch or starve folks
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So not Christ Church, Spitalfields, which must be the one I was thinking of. Four pillars, check, square tower-thing above them, check…
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it was one of the first of the so-called “Commissioners’ Churches” built for the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches, which had been established by an act of parliament in 1711. The purpose of the commission was to a…*
No - don’t tell me! I’m keen to guess…
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Does it help to know that the sentence starting “The purpose of the commission was to a…” is a new paragraph?
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Possibly - the formatting didn’t carry across.
That said, I’m going to stick with my initial guess: “build fifty churches”. Am I close?
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