Horsehair mattresses, feather beds, turning the mattress.

"What care I for your goose feather bed with the sheets turned down so bravely oh
I've got a nice new spring interior, along with a 14 tog duvet-o."


The childrens action rhyme
"make the bed, shake the bed, turn the mattress over"
is obsolete, but a revival is planned at the Chester Festival family ceilidh.