When I was a boy, many years ago, the occasional habit of allowing young men and girls to lie together in a bed was known as 'BOLSTERING'. A 'BOLSTER' was a long well stuffed pillow that would normally sit across a double bed and used as an under pillow. This would be inserted between male & female, on a bed and give them some privacy to carry on courting in a separate room ( bedroom) during the long winter nights, without Television. The 'BOLSTER' seemed to be a common article of bedding in those days and were most uncomfortable to use as a pillow Don FRASER 6605

Most of my family are from Sussex and my older sister told me that 'bundling' was a common courting practice and my father had told her it was also common in his native country - Wales. We had bolsters on our beds in my parents' home and used them underr single pillows - they were cetainly not very comfortable if used on their own. Thanks to Donald for reminding me about this. Helen 4583 On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:18:31 -0000, donald.ofardeer@btinternet.com said: > When I was a boy, many years ago, the occasional habit of allowing young > men > and girls to lie together in a bed was known as 'BOLSTERING'. A 'BOLSTER' > was a long well stuffed pillow that would normally sit across a double > bed > and used as an under pillow. This would be inserted between male & > female, > on a bed and give them some privacy to carry on courting in a separate > room > ( bedroom) during the long winter nights, without Television. > The 'BOLSTER' seemed to be a common article of bedding in those days and > were most uncomfortable to use as a pillow > > Don FRASER > 6605 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SFHG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message