Strapping?

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Plaiting the front of the bed was a way of stopping straw being dragged out the stable door and makes the beds look neat at the front. You'd basically find a good handful of straw, plait it and add pieces from the front of the bed as you go-bit like doing a french plait. The straw these days isn't good enough to do it with mind but it can be done, just very fiddly!

Blimey yeah, straw used to be so long compared to nowadays didn't it.

 

[The wife]

Blimey yeah, straw used to be so long compared to nowadays didn't it.

It did actually used to be longer... but then again one always got more for their money back then and when sarcasm used to be funny a comment.