[Sca-cooks] Airing cupboard

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

Drakey, dearie, I'm five months pregnant, and you are scaring the poop
out of me.  Please, whatever diety is listening, let my experience be a
bit easier...

-Magdalena
who was as much of a terror at 3 as Drake was...

Craig Jones wrote:

> Not even close.
>
> An Airing cupboard is where your linen is stored (sheets, towels, tea
> towels (dish wipers), etc.  It can also, when quite large, be used for
> drying clothing (tradition airing cupboards were used for this) as the
> hot water heater is usually in there and it can get quite hot and dry in
> there.
>
> Funny story alert:
>
> When I was 3 (and a complete horror), I locked my mother in the airing
> cupboard, at Mom and Dad's first house in Southhampton, by shoulder
> charging the door and smashing the lock.  While she was trying to escape
> (it took 2 hours), I ran amock in the house and threw flour over
> everything...
>
> When she finally escaped, she calmly grabbed the vaccuum cleaner to
> clean up the flour, except she'd discovered I'd cut a hole in the bag
> with a pair of scissors... Flour dust settling over the freshly washed
> Venetian Blinds! Later that week my father discovered that I'd put holes
> in all 90-odd of his oil paints with a modelling knife.  I was almost
> sold into slavery that week.
>
> BadBadBadDrakey (Aussie and ex POM (prisoner of motherland...))