Ah well, that's why we have mangle's in finland :) You just have to fold the sheet along its length, feed it into the machine and it comes out all smooth :) Then you can roll it up and store it as "scrolls". Well that's what my mum does anyway. Like I said, I'm a slob! ;) But ironing sheet...

Erm, I confess, I never understood why it matters what your sheets look like I mean you just sleep in them! As long as they nice and clean does it matter if they creased??? Aren't bed covers for the appearance?

But then again, I'm a slob anyway

P.S. that example was just from think air, because I don't they actually had candles (as such) in ancient egypt

I haven't really read Budge, but just to make a small point: in something like hieroglyphs the leaps in the research are so vast that it could be differences like "he burned the land" later turning out to be "he burned the candle". So just take the old ones with a pinch of salt

The egyptian museum is a treasure chest! While other items are hidden away unrecorded, the recorded items are "misplaced" :lol: There are lots of old registers that record a location for an item that just isn't there and no one bothered to write down where it was put! There are loads of vo...

Do you have an actual house in Cairo, or a ground floor in a block or something? I just can't picture houses in Cairo, I don't know why!!! Everywhere you look you just see blocks of flats....