https://www.medievalists.net/2026/02/25-tips-from-the-middle-ages/
How to put out a serious fire 🔥 ;D
I particularly liked the one about small children and clothes.
So, have you applied the nail scissors to your moggy's ears yet?
;D
It's hard enough cutting knots out of her fur
How times have changed to what is described under "How to Flirt with a Man"?
I mean, in the more desperate night clubs of Portsmouth it quite common for women to disappear into the gents and drag out some poor, unfortunate soul for their pleasure....
:o
Particularly if its called The Jolly Sailor....
I was thinking of Joannas on South Parade, now thankfully burnt to the ground....
Oh...that one
I rather liked the idea of coating a child's tongue with honey and butter to encourage speech. Reminded me of -
There was an old man of Calcutta,
Who coated his tonsils in butter,
It converted his snore
From a thunderous roar
To a soft, oleaginous mutter.
Ogden Nash, I think.