I know a photo of a pillow!!
I was just thinking today as I changed beds how something that was drummed into me when I was training to be a nurse.
Sister in charge always told us to put the opening of the pillow cases away from the ward door.
I think of this almost every time I change beds even after all this time!
I don't think they bother with such rubbish these days but I still do it, it's drummed into me!
Three good things:
1. News from Grandson Jack as he starts a proper school term in Japan. He has been doing lots since he arrived at the end if July but this is the first week at school.
2. Meeting people I know while out shopping, I must have done almost more chatting than shopping
3. Despite a very wet morning I risked putting the washing out before I went shopping, they were practically dry when I got back.
Nice pov and I expect you do a neat hospital corners as well. I had to line up the counterpanes on each bed so that the central patterns of the covers formed a straight line down the length of the ward - 12 beds either side!!!
Never been trained as a nurse, but I always put the opening of the pillow cases away from the windows...
I'm sure that from now on I'll be thinking of you when I'm changing beds ;-)
As soon as I started to read this I could hear my Sister Rob ( who was a nurse) saying besure to put the opening in the centre/ away from the door.. once a nurse always a nurse.. though I do like a very tidely made bed.. must go and make mine now .. I will be sure to place the pillows correctly..
@jesperani haha - I expect you started to type pillowcase and the autocorrect preferred pancakes! So do I!
I seem to recall the placing of the pillow too - away from the side of the bed. What nice pillowcase! Calling me to put my head on this pillow!
@maggiemae I was just bemoaning the fact that I have had this's pillowcases for so long & lots of creases in there!
Ah yes pillowcases are very like pancakes in the 365 world! @jesperani
@julzmaioro very good Julz! That's what I like to hear! I must say I am heartened by all the following of orders down the years regarding the placing of the pillowcase!
@Dawn Ha ha is t this amazing we all had the same training! We had to take all the flowers out to & line them up outside the ward door, something about flowers using the oxygen up! No flowers allowed on wards in the UK now! @maggiemae@julzmaioro@gijsje@jesperani@snaphappi
Mother told me to put the open pillowcase edges facing the outer edges of the bed. Funny she never mentioned windows and doors. I just love 365. Y'all made me laugh out loud with this comment stream!
@louannwarren for me 365 is far more than the photos Lou Ann! I like to know everything about my followers lives, where they live, etc etc! I also use it to remind myself what I did over the last few weeks!
My Mom was a nurse and she taught us about the sheet's "hospital corners" at the foot of the beds- but as far as the pillow cases - the edges face the edge of the bed.
Ha ha love the story. Amazing how rules stick. Mum was a nurse and before fitted sheets we always used to do hospital corners on the sheets. I did them well into my married life too. thank heaven for fitted sheets now.
I have lots of RAF rules that I still apply too. My main one is raising your glass as a salute. I hate it when people raise their glass and then clunk them all together. It makes me cringe. I just can't clunk a glass and have to explain what raising your glass at a party or dinner is all about. Air Force training stays with you for ever, just like nursing training.
Loved reading all these comments and still can't quite work out why you would have the open edge away from the windows? I always put mine that way, away from the middle, I'll have to change😱. I do hospital corners though, much prefer flat sheets with a good thread count!
@onewing I an imagine you would have similar rules in the RAF too Babs but never thought they would have extended to the bed making, made me think twice about raising the glass!! !
Because when I was nursing there used to be long wards, sometimes 30 beds down each side & visiting hours strictly laid down so that they were all standing outside waiting, Sister used to like their wards to look pristine so no baggy gaping pillowcases spoiling the look! So proud in those days of wards, I can remember scurrying around & then the final OK from Sister, 'right let them in'. You
@cruiser no Chris you can see them gaping then! It's so funny to hear everyone's thoughts, I never knew we all had such definite habbits that we always stick to!
I'm sure that from now on I'll be thinking of you when I'm changing beds ;-)
I seem to recall the placing of the pillow too - away from the side of the bed. What nice pillowcase! Calling me to put my head on this pillow!
Ah yes pillowcases are very like pancakes in the 365 world! @jesperani
@maggiemae @julzmaioro @gijsje @jesperani @snaphappi
I have lots of RAF rules that I still apply too. My main one is raising your glass as a salute. I hate it when people raise their glass and then clunk them all together. It makes me cringe. I just can't clunk a glass and have to explain what raising your glass at a party or dinner is all about. Air Force training stays with you for ever, just like nursing training.
Because when I was nursing there used to be long wards, sometimes 30 beds down each side & visiting hours strictly laid down so that they were all standing outside waiting, Sister used to like their wards to look pristine so no baggy gaping pillowcases spoiling the look! So proud in those days of wards, I can remember scurrying around & then the final OK from Sister, 'right let them in'. You
A ward tidy prior not a wheel pillow sheet out of place those were the days