15 minutes on the train but I rarely went , and never to shop, even in the olden days. 2018 BV was the last time visited Oxford St and that was only because I had an appointment at the endodentist nearby .
I stopped going into London for pleasure after the '73 bombing, queuing to have your bag searched at every department store - not my idea of a relaxing day out!
By the time it was (relatively) safe to shop in town all my favourite stores had gone  Bourne & Hollingsworth, Derry & Toms and the Army & Navy was a shadow of it's former self.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."Â Sir Terry Pratchett
Bit peeved that a favourite pure cotton M & S fitted sheet has just ripped apart. I don't think it was that old, maybe 5 years? Not sure whether to mend it or not - does anybody still patch sheets these days?
In bygone days, when sheets wore thin in the middle and the sides were still good, it was customary to turn them "sides to middle". In other words, you cut them in half lengthways, sewed the outer edges together, and hemmed the cut edges. One of the downsides of fitted sheets - it wouldn't work.
I was going to mention "sides to middled" sheets too. Not very comfortable to lie on when I was covered head to toe with chicken pox spots, aged 17, I remember... though I was too poorly at the time to complain Â
You could use the "solid" bits of your sheet to make face masks, I suppose. Â
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Well, it's torn horizontally in roughly where OH's shoulder would be, which is rather odd, although thinking about it, we're both very restless sleepers. I was thinking I could sew a wide strip right across on top of it and use that at foot level where it wouldn't irritate so much (hopefully!). I'm only pondering whether or not to bother as I will have a suitable piece of cotton available soon when I reduce the size of a super king duvet cover I bought in error.
 I tried making cotton face masks before but prefer the lightweight disposable ones.
I wonder what Super Rare's super powers are? Maybe he has the ability to see which items on Ebay are actually 'RARE!!' and which ones are just photoshop.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I can’t help myself. Why do I let myself get slightly annoyed by this fad of saying ‘super’ for ‘very’? It was the same with the quite recent trend of using the continuous present rather than the simple present. I am not loving it.
Back in the day I am sure I said fab and groovy with the best of them. I must have been so irritating.
@Liriodendron  My mum did that. I never have cos by the time I was buying sheets they were fitted.
However now I've started doing patchwork, old sheets are a very good backing when layering the patchwork and wadding layers for quilting. Then I can attach a more decorative, unquilted backing when I'm doing the edging.  I've recycled torn duvet covers for making bias binding and visible backing for patchwork place mats too.
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2018 BV was the last time visited Oxford St and that was only because I had an appointment at the endodentist nearby .
By the time it was (relatively) safe to shop in town all my favourite stores had goneÂ
In bygone days, when sheets wore thin in the middle and the sides were still good, it was customary to turn them "sides to middle". In other words, you cut them in half lengthways, sewed the outer edges together, and hemmed the cut edges. One of the downsides of fitted sheets - it wouldn't work.
You could use the "solid" bits of your sheet to make face masks, I suppose. Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Whale migration: ‘Super rare’ whale encounter on the Great Barrier Reef
I think it's doubleplus ungood I tried making cotton face masks before but prefer the lightweight disposable ones.
Back in the day I am sure I said fab and groovy with the best of them. I must have been so irritating.
However now I've started doing patchwork, old sheets are a very good backing when layering the patchwork and wadding layers for quilting. Then I can attach a more decorative, unquilted backing when I'm doing the edging.  I've recycled torn duvet covers for making bias binding and visible backing for patchwork place mats too.