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Just be thankful that you have a wall between thee and me :D

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Back to the thread. What was that stick (honest) thing my Dad used on his face when he cut himself shaving?? Seemed to stop the bleeding?? :confused::confused::confused:

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Antihemorrhagic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Styptic stick/pencil

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It was a styptic pencil....you can still buy them.

No..............I don't know everything,:) I have just lived a long time and have a good memory.

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ooooh Margaret, just one minute behind you!

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Have one in the bathroom myself Margaret

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You know when you have a "hang-nail" - a loose bit of skin at the side of a finger nail, my aunt used to call it a "stepmother jag". Anyone else heard that? Perhaps it was an old Rishtonian saying.

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nope...that's what we call them too...OK, I'm only down the road in Clayton.......but I'm sure I have heard other people use that phrase for them.

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Na mi old grannie used to say that and she were born and bred in Ossy:hothothot

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My mum came from Atherton and my dad Blackburn and they both said Step mother jag, as I do now.

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My Gran too but she used to call it a stepmother jack!!
Thank goodness you've all put me right!

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My other half comes from the Atherton area

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What was that stone that Mums used on the front door step called and do people still do this?

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a pummy stone me nan called it, used to get em off the Rag Tatters.;):)

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A pummy (pumice)stone is not the same - pummy stones rubbed the hard skin off your feet.

I recall it as a dobby stone but an internet search decribes a dobby stone as having a hole - which it didn't:confused: