John,
Poor you. I commiserate too. I missed my footing and fell down a flight of stairs back in January; next day I felt as if I'd been hit by a train. It was truly awful.
Added to your unfortunate tumble, we got thrashed at cricket by Bangladesh -- you are
really suffering, my friend!!!!
Bob re post #87,
Over here we always used to refer to them as ''Body warmers'' which is a bit daft, I suppose, because
any item of clothing could be called a body warmer --- but then it became fashionable to call that particular type of apparel a ''gilet''. That makes more sense . . . and it
is a nice word, as Annie said (though a vest in the US is what we call a waistcoat, which is a different garment altogether).
A bit more (albeit trivial) good news, but no one said the good news had to be something earth-shattering! :
I've finally finished knitting a jacket in very chunky wool, using needles the thickness of broom handles, after . . . Oh, it has to be seven years since I started it . . . and all I have to do now is sew it together.
(So I might be wearing it in five years' time!!
)
Jayne