I was in one of the better menswear shops a few days ago trying to buy the old fashioned white hankies with a 'proper' border that didn't curl up when it was ironed. The lady assistant remarked on the fact that I ironed my hankies. I responded that, despite the comments of many of my friends - both male and female - on the subject of ironing as a waste of time, I didn't mind doing it and generally combined it with watching TV or suchlike. Thus I don't feel guilty when I watch TV - which I would so often regard as a waste of time!
Somehow we strayed from ironing hankies to ironing in general. I remarked that there was nothing better than ironed sheets. Rather to my surprise she thought that that was going a bit too far. I just love my sheets ironed.
In fact if I were really wealthy I would have my bed made up with fresh, immaculately ironed, superb quality (at least 400 threads per inch), Egyptian cotton sheets every day. That would be luxury indeed.
