A bath after food? Or that you shouldn’t swim after a meal

SueDonim

I had to have a bath, or rather a shower, last night after I dropped my entire bowl of strawberries and cream into my lap!

Why didn’t you just wash your clothes.😄

What a terrible waste of a bowl of strawberries and cream.

*Feed a cold. Starve a fever
*Cracking your knuckles will give you arthritis
*Eating carrots gives you better eyesight

Calendargirl

The pram one, for a first baby.

What about subsequent children though?

The pram was there in the house already…

That’s a good point. I wouldn’t have the pram until the baby was home, but we used the same pram again, without a qualm. Maybe it’s not bad luck to have something already there.

The pram one, for a first baby.

What about subsequent children though?

The pram was there in the house already…

Oreo

Crossstitchfan

I remember all of those! My grandmother was a stickler for them so I was brought up to believe them. I thought that now I’m old, I’d have grown out of this, but no! When my adored granddaughter bought a pram for the baby she was expecting two months later, I found myself asking her not to have it in the house until after the birth! She was quite taken aback, having never heard of this, but she asked the shop to keep it for her, and they did.
My great-grandson had a traumatic birth, but is, thankfully fine, but I did wonder, just for a second, what would have happened if she had ignored me. Common sense tells me it wouldn’t have changed anything, but………..?

There’s sense in the pram thing, a relative bought one and when she sadly miscarried had to return it.

My SIL solved this by storing the pram at my house!

I’ve walked under ladders many, many times; black cats have crossed the road in front of me quite often. At the time, think oh no ! Then I forget all about it……

Scribbles, I'd totally forgotten that one, but I was told that too!

I used to like raw cabbage and broccolli and beans but was always told they would give me tummy-ache.

Not to hold my nose when I sneezed (But mum was right on this one.)

Don't chew your pencil, you'll get lead poisoning.

I was taught that I mustn't have a long soak in a hot bath while menstruating as this would increase the blood flow. But a very quick, warm shower was okay.

Some people say it's May, the flowering tree, rather than May the month, Sarnia.

I was allowed to wear summer dresses on Whit Sunday or the end of May whichever was earliest, but I don't remember having to wear a liberty bodice that late in the year. Perhaps Aertex vests instead of those wool Chilprufe ones!

Not bathing during periods.
I wondered whether it was something to do with religion or, as my Grandmother said “If you’re lying down in the bath to wash your hair, you don’t want any of that on it!”
That was before the invention of showers or those rubber tubes you attached to taps but she must surely have used jugs of clean water to rinse.
Dandelions -I avoided them and I thought the bubblegum story was because Mum didn’t like us having it.

'Ne'er cast a clout, till May is out' used to drive me mad when I was small and summer arrived early. My Mum insisted on me keeping my vest and liberty bodice on until 1st June, irrespective of the weather. The temperatures could plummet on 1st June but I would then be allowed to wear a summer dress.

We weren't allowed to swim for half an hour after eating, the idea being that one's bodily energy was being used for digestion, making the muscles less strong.
Is there anything in this? I do seem to find that my legs are weaker until the meal has gone down.

my granny in glasgow never let me have a bath after eating, she always said your tummy is full and i might fall asleep, during my period i had to wear slippers and not stand on cold floors, put a cover over my legs and not let them get red from the fire or i would end up with varicose veins. she had lot's of these but that was how they lived, i am 62 and until i got rid of my bath i always went for a bath and then had food.

Don't wash your hair when you're having a period!

I ignored that one.

My mum would say ‘It’s all my eye and Betty Martin’ to not bath after you eat.
I have no idea what that means, but my mum is 96, and a woman of strong opinions, so I go along with her.

Oreo

Isn’t the French name for a dandelion pis en lis or something similar?

Yes 😀

Jaxjacky

Getting piles from sitting on a radiator, chewing gum gunging up your insides if you swallowed it.

Getting piles from sitting on a radiator
That is not an old wives' tale.
I speak from experience - and two colleagues could corroborate! We were warned.

Isn’t the French name for a dandelion pis en lis or something similar?

I always believed this, having been told blood and oxygen went from muscles to your stomach to digest the food, hence you could get cramp.
😯

I remember being told that if you picked dandelions that you'd wet the bed.
Dandelion tea is a diuretic!

Crossstitchfan

I remember all of those! My grandmother was a stickler for them so I was brought up to believe them. I thought that now I’m old, I’d have grown out of this, but no! When my adored granddaughter bought a pram for the baby she was expecting two months later, I found myself asking her not to have it in the house until after the birth! She was quite taken aback, having never heard of this, but she asked the shop to keep it for her, and they did.
My great-grandson had a traumatic birth, but is, thankfully fine, but I did wonder, just for a second, what would have happened if she had ignored me. Common sense tells me it wouldn’t have changed anything, but………..?

There’s sense in the pram thing, a relative bought one and when she sadly miscarried had to return it.

I remember being told that if you picked dandelions that you'd wet the bed.

I remember all of those! My grandmother was a stickler for them so I was brought up to believe them. I thought that now I’m old, I’d have grown out of this, but no! When my adored granddaughter bought a pram for the baby she was expecting two months later, I found myself asking her not to have it in the house until after the birth! She was quite taken aback, having never heard of this, but she asked the shop to keep it for her, and they did.
My great-grandson had a traumatic birth, but is, thankfully fine, but I did wonder, just for a second, what would have happened if she had ignored me. Common sense tells me it wouldn’t have changed anything, but………..?

Not washing my legs properly during the 6 weeks school holiday would make the skin on my legs into Elephant skin!

Swallow an Apple pip and I would grow a tree in my Belly.

yes, those too

Getting piles from sitting on a cold surface, like an outside wall or kerb.
Swallowing chewing gum would stick all your innards together (and you’d die)!