Bed.
Once upon a time when Britain was an island next to Europe, and foreign holidays and habits were the province of the rich, nightly we shivered as a nation beneath sheets and blankets. Duvets, or as they were then called, “continental quilts” were alien bed inventions. But to us in Olde Englande, they were mystifying.
How can they sleep with just a si…
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