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The Great Bed of Ware
MrsM is browsing peacefully.
MissM and the Charming MasterN
are doing the hard work.
MissM
Hi!
We were looking for you
We've got everything I need for uni.
Charming MasterN
Don't worry!
It is all very good value.
MrsM
What's this?
A plain red duvet cover?
MissM
I haven't chosen anything expensive.
MrsM
It doesn't match your towels.
MissM
That's true.
But that doesn't matter.
Does it?
MrsM
Matter?
Of course it matters.
I can't let you go to university
with a plain duvet cover
that doesn't match your towels.
My life is too short
to waste it worrying about you.
Find a shop assistant.
I need to talk to someone.
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Oh dear. Doing some of this myself this weekend.
ReplyDeleteOf course it matters.
ReplyDeleteMy goodness.
Question. How can a plain duvet cover NOT match the towels? ps, you mean, you life is shorten by worrying, don't you? Xo someone has to play the Devil's advocate.
ReplyDeleteI think Alice is being tongue in cheek about this, Kathe. Good luck with it all, I am sure she will have a lovely time.
ReplyDeleteThis post reminds me of those What Katy Did stories where the redhead was never allowed to wear pink? or is it another author from that period?
Nice to know she is mindful of the budget - that way you won't be short of spare cash when the pole request arrives!
ReplyDeleteCollapsible laundry bin - check. Collapsible drying rack - check. Collapsible crates - check. Collapsible mother - check.
ReplyDeletethe university duvet cover choice is of paramount importance. I still have the one I bought myself in the first term, it's in the "to cut up pile" but I can't quite bring myself to do it....
ReplyDeleteI had a hideous, hideous duvet cover at university. I am so relieved Miss M won't be making the same mistake.
ReplyDeleteWe are off to buy pencil cases. It could be worse.
MrsM badly brought up chromatically probably.
ReplyDeleteFor example, "Blue and green should never be seen without a colour in between" has been one of the dictats in our family.
mmmhh is that what happens to a mother's brain when all their kids are about to flee the nest?
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine where un-matched towels and duvets might lead? What a very good think you put a halt to such a thing.
ReplyDeleteBest to sort these things early. CK thinks there is no correlation btween the colour of the curtains and the fittings and furnishings in the rest of the room.
ReplyDelete@Lucille - tres droll.
You should see my airing cupboard then that would shock you to the core! ;-)
ReplyDeleteI need a like button for Lucille's comment ;D
ReplyDeleteForget matching, if she'll be doing her own laundry the important question is 'are all items sufficiently dyefast to be bunged in the wash together and not all come out mudcoloured?' ... students have no time for sorting stuff pre wash ... trust me, I speak from experience ;)
It's great that she is being frugal, but...must maintain integrity. Good job, MrsM
ReplyDeleteI do know not to leave wet towels on a bed. And I do know that having white towels and white bedding means that if anyone (naming no names) ever does this, I can't see them and by nighttime the damage is done.
ReplyDeleteMatching towels are a problem, I think.
Sue, I like to think Lucy Montgomery would have let Anne wear pink, but I imagine the neighbours would have had plenty to say about it too!
ReplyDeleteI just have a feeling Katy or Clover had a redheaded friend - I remember thinking, 'how very silly', anyhow.
I know, right?
ReplyDeleteDid you find matching bed curtains too? Those are always the trickiest to source!
ReplyDeleteIf only my mother worried about my duvet matching my towel! I am starting to question her affection towards me!!.....I hope I remember this when my daughter reaches the uni stage.
ReplyDeleteThe important thing is to have distinctive towels so that there is no doubt that they belong to you. Therefore plain towels are unacceptable.
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