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I think the comfort of Ladies Bedstraw came from the aroma which
masked the domestic odours of them long gone days.
:-)

I've been away for a week but I'm interested in what 'domestic odours'
you think would need masking and in which days?

Unwashed bodies, which bathed once a week, on a saturday night in a tin
bath in front of the fire, first in the bath were the children then
father then mother!

Alan, I don't know what happened when you were a child but when I was,
although we only bathed once a week (on a Friday) we washed daily. But the
reference was to mediaeval times, not when we were young.

The only bits of me which got washed daily were hands and face, not
forgetting the ears!

The only people who bathed on friday were the posh people cos the rest of us
had to go to work on saturday morning, so it wasn't on to bath on friday,
you just got dirty again on the saturday morning.

People paid attention to personal hygiene in mediaeval times too.

That does surprise me, I wouldn't have tought that soap had been invented
then.

It was reported that many years ago before peple have a once a week bath,
that an upper class 'gentleman' when asked one day if he was clean,
replied, 'Clean, clean, of course I'm clean I have a bath once a year,
whether I need it or not!'

That's usually ascribed to Queen Elizabeth I.

I must try to remember that, but the tale I had was a 'gentleman' who said
it.

Mary
who has a bath once a week

I haven't had a bath for years, and I couldn't now even if I wanted to, I
just cannot get either in or out of a bath without someone very strong to
lift me out, but I did start showering during my time in the FAA!

Alan