General Chat

I went to see my son Tuesday evening before he goes off to Reading festival with a crowd of his mates. His flat was chaotic, his best mate was there to have a bath as his heating is being replaced at his own flat so he couldn't use it, my son had everything he needs to pack in a heap on the floor, he isn't very organised lol, and he was still washing towels and things to take with him. He has to have all his stuff and himself at the Railway station by Weds at 4pm to travel to the Festival. His friend had forgotten to bring a towel so my lad fished out the only clean one, and I recognised it straight away. It was one my Mum gave him from her airing cupboard in about 1988 when he needed a towel for school swimming lessons, a dark blue and multi coloured stripy one with my middle brother's name tag on the corner. It was the one she had got for my brother to use when he started having showers at school so would have been in about 1962. That brother was 60 earlier this month so it means the towel, which has had a lot of use from my son these last 19 years, is at least 47 years old! It's not got a lot of pile left on it and is a bit thin and threadbare but not split anywhere lol and the name tag is still securely in place too, my Dad probably sewed that on lol

Mum probably got it in a Belfast Linen Sale but wouldn't have spent a fortune on it, what a bargain eh?
What's the betting my lad loses it at Reading now, it's a family heirloom really.
Lizx