The past is a different country. They do things differently there.

[Lydart]

More details please ....

[Ecneps]

On their what? 

We used wintergreen for chilblains, and also for that awful chapped skin you used to get round the calves where your wellies had rubbed after playing in the snow

Barbara

[Gadget]

When they played football and cricket and they injured themselves or whatever - I remember - it stank the place out

[Lydart]

Wasn't that some sort of liniment ?  (I went to a girls school, so didnt encounter boys playing football !)

[Gadget]

Well, the used wintergreen for something 

You missed a treat Lydart. I would have hated an all girls school - not natural really. What was it like?

[Lydart]

Vaguely OK ... there was a boys school up the road (Adam Faith went there !) and a convent school (more girls) next door ... at least there was no distraction from the lessons with no boys !

[Gadget]

That's a myth really  - it's the boys that get distracted

[Canuc]

- it's the boys that get distracted

Only because the girls are flirting outrageously         

I was at an all boys school when hormones kicked in the only distraction was Dolly Davis teaching maths, and she could have been our Granny (did know her maths, think she made us do arithmetic too)

Canuc

[ozlady]

I had to wear a liberty bodice in the winter. I hated them and all those little rubber buttons. Chilprufe vests made me itch and I loathed woolly hats!

In the summer, if it was very warm, Mum would fill the old tin bath with water and swish the blue bag (Reckitt's) in it so I could pretend it was the sea. Well, one day I decided the water wasn't blue enough. I pinched the blue bag............. and ended up looking like an Ancient Briton covered in woad!My yellow woollen swim suit had to be thrown out thank the Lord and halleluijah as I hated the rotten thing!