bedsocks

"You can bet your fluffy bedsocks it does, young thingummy.

And I understand bedsocks and long johns do not figure in your plans, Carol?

His nose was red, and his eyes were puffy as lambswool bedsocks. "

I got a jar o' gherkins, a woolly 'at an' a pair o' bedsocks.

I pulled up my bedsocks, which were falling down round my ankles, and walked back along the dark corridor as far as the head of the stairs.

Yana was on her feet instantly and opened the door, dancing about on tiptoe as the cold of the floor ate through her bedsocks.

There are some phrases that are mentioned frequently in the stories, such as exclamations by Snooker the cat with "My Bedsocks!"

'Some'ow I can't see you in a woolly 'at an' bedsocks.'

"We hang out as long as we can in bedsocks, and watch the television in sleeping bags, but it's winding the kids up a bit now.

Two winceyette nightdresses for Roie, a woollen singlet, for the weather was cold, and a pair of ugly mustard-coloured bedsocks.

Hannah wore a thick red woollen nightdress which reached down to her ankles which, in turn, were encased in bedsocks and a pair of fleece-lined slippers.

A pinkish, stoutish, solemn young chap, he was a friend and neighbour to Kay Derrick when they were children together in Wiltshire, despite her mockling his habit of wearing bedsocks.

Tiny hands caught his collar, his nightshirt, his bedsocks... 'Good show,' he murmured, as he slid gently to the ground and then, six inches above ground level, was carried off into the night.

But there I was, defenceless in my nightshirt and my goddamned ridiculous bedsocks, clutching a lightweight candlestick and hoping that whatever whispered behind that door was going to stay behind it, or better still, leave me alone. '

Other characters were Snooker, a small black Kitten cat who always wears bedsocks and lives with the Great Oojah and Don, a little boy who is the Little Oojah and the Jum-Jarum.

But it was the Emir of Bahrain who - then, as now - upstaged the knitted bedsocks brigade, with a breathtakingly lavish solid gold model of an Arab sailing dhow, encrusted with gems, which was, ahem, later flogged to a West End jeweller.