25 tips from the middle ages

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.medievalists.net/2026/02/25-tips-from-the-middle-ages/

How to put out a serious fire 🔥 

[Erpingham]

I particularly liked the one about small children and clothes.

[Nick Harbud]

So, have you applied the nail scissors to your moggy's ears yet?

 

[Erpingham]

It's hard enough cutting knots out of her fur

[Nick Harbud]

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....

[Imperial Dave]

Particularly if its called The Jolly Sailor....

[Nick Harbud]

I was thinking of Joannas on South Parade, now thankfully burnt to the ground....

[Imperial Dave]

Oh...that one

[Keraunos]

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.