When I left home to go to college, my mother gave me some basic lessons in looking after myself. One of them was shirt-ironing. Collar: cuffs: sleeves: yoke: front-back-front.

Me: How did you learn to do this yourself, Mum?

She: Why, in school, of course.

Me: In school? Like, they had lessons in shirt-ironing?

She: Of course! Though only for the girls, you know.

[Sigh]