CDM Furniture!

[Michael Alexander]

@ Florrie ... we did that also, but you should rather take the mattrass off the bed first, those spring mesh parts of the bed made excellent trampolines.... who remembers the bunk bed version of those beds?

[barb (Fry)]

yes, i made my younger sister sleep on top so i could make a tent.

unfortunately she fell off and hurt her head on the bed side table

[Michael Alexander]

... and the mattrass was in a striped covered sleeping bag type afffair... blue stripes.....

[barb (Fry)]

I had nightmares involving those stipes a thick one with thinner one on either side - but they were great trampolines the beds that is.

where the mattresses horse hair or some such thing - heavy affairs before foam cos they sure lasted for ever.

[Michael Alexander]

... not sure what they were made from, but if you pulled the cover of the mattrass ( I know I'm spelling this wrong, kinda like an Afrikaans bastardised version) .... you could then put your baby brother in and drag them around the house.... really strange memory........

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[barb (Fry)]

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[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

I think you right Barbs 'coir' it was called. Then came those thick foam ones. The stripey ones always made think of prisons. Maybe I was a bady in a past life.

[barb (Fry)]

I didn't know how to spell it ?

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

 :emot19:   ok so horse hair will do

[Delia]

My lasting memory of those CDM beds was having my teeth bashed out as my mouth connected that metal bar at the foot end - i ran down the passage into my room and slipped on the loose mat we had in the doorway - the mat went one way and i went the other, straight into the end of the bed.  Blood and gore everywhere and one kid screaming her lungs out.............. :emot78:  Still have a scew tooth as a lasting momento.....

We also had the double bunk version as well - my sister Linda and myself shared a room and to irritate her when she had got me into some type of trouble, i'd lie below her, put both my feet up against her bed and kick and bounce her bed like crazy.  But then she went to boarding school and I had no-one to irritate upstairs.........it's those moments when you miss your siblings, no-one to bug the hell out of.........

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Yes our parents seemed to like having loose mats all over the house

[georg ruf jr.]

I remember having a carpet in my room. The corner of the carpet would always "bend" up when opening the door. So I just nailed it to the floor. Don't know if my parents ever knew this.

hahaha

[Michael Alexander]

Well, I guess your father knows now!

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[georg ruf jr.]

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[Robert Bruce]

I remember the red stoep polish and screen doors.

Oh boy do  I remember those red polished stoeps. My left knee reminds me every winter that it used to get bashed badly whenever I slipped on the stoep because Gideon used to polish it so damn well.

The door screen and those window flyscreens. Living near a racehorse stable, I wish I had those windowscreens and doorscreen to stop the blubottle horse-arse flies entering the house. Summer is bad. Might as well be living in Australia let alone the green rolling hills of the Berkshire countryside!