[Margaret Pilkington]

Aaaaaawwww! Thanks Kate, I will tell her you said that....i just know it will make her smile. I bet she has forgotten how she used to find bits of grey rubber button under my bed......I wasn't so daft as to actually eat the rubber....I just bit them to bits and chucked the bitten bits under the bed.
The other thing about the cotton covered metal buttons was, they used to get spoiled if you forgot to position the garment porperly when you were putting them through the mangle.....once mangled, well they were no good as buttons anymore.

See, now everyone knows I had a rubber fetish.