because just as I was about to serve dinner she came thundering down the stairs yelling that her pen had exploded. Aye, right ! She'd just filled it with permanent turquoise ink and shaken it over the bed (where else? ) to get the ink flowing and the pen had come apart.....
....yeah, well, you get the idea.
Sheet and underlay straight into a cold wash. Stain has come out of the sheet.
Quilt just gone in. Fortunately this 'quilt' was in fact an old cotton sleeping bag (also ex charity shop) and not one of my hand made ones, or I mightn't have found it all so amusing