Who Remembers Sides-to-Middle?
Last night, I put my feet through a bed-sheet, creating a large hole.
I suspect, it was probably past its throw away date, but it got me thinking!
My mother would have cut the sheet in half, put the two good sides together and sewed them securely with her reliable 1930s-built Singer.
She used to call it Sides-to-Middle!
This sheet was a fitted one, which didn’t exist in the 1950s and 1960s!
So I doubt, it would have been possible anyway!
Doing Her Mending On The Bus
I’ve seen women knitting on the Tube, but I haven’t ever seen anybody doing their mending on a bus before.
That is until today, when I saw a young lady sorting out some errant hem with a needle and thread at the front of the top deck of a number 30 bus.
It’s funny though, but I’ve never seen anybody doing serious embroidery on a bus or train!
The Anonymous Widower 