Thin Air Mattress
Thin Air Mattress – Soft Side Water Bed.
Thin Air Mattress
- air mattress
- An inflatable mattress
- An air mattress is an inflatable mattress/sleeping pad. Due to its buoyancy, it is also often used as a water toy / flotation device, and in UK is termed as a lilo ("Li-lo" being a specific trademark).
- a mattress that can be stored flat and inflated for use
- thin
- lose thickness; become thin or thinner
- Remove some plants from (a row or area) to allow the others more room to grow
- Make or become weaker or more watery
- thinly: without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin"
- of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint"
- Make or become less dense, crowded, or numerous
A quick and simple camping solution, the Intex inflatable fabric mattress gives you a comfortable sleeping surface for your outdoor adventures. The mattress is made of laminated vinyl built to withstand the elements, with a unique wave beam construction producing a uniform sleeping surface. The mat is also topped with fabric to keep you comfortable throughout the evening. And when it’s time to pack up, the mat folds compactly for easy storage and travel. Also functional as a pool or lake flotation device, the mat measures 72.5 by 6.75 by 26.5 inches (W x H x D).
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Today the St Philips area of Bristol is mainly industrial with just small pockets of houses as a reminder of how things might have looked in past times. In 1889 when the Withey case took place the district was densely populated with row upon row of terraced dwellings with front doors opening directly on to the street.
The residential properties were peppered with countless little shops, off-licences and pubs and the close proximity of neighbours seemed to breed a strong community spirit. It is this brand of loyalty which figures strongly in the death of Jane Withey and its aftermath.
Jane Withey was 36 years of age in 1889 and lived with her husband John at 21 Cumberland Street together with their four children, Frederick, Alfred, Sarah and Emily whose ages ranged from 10 to 16. John, 2 years older than his wife, worked as a stoker at the local gas works where he had been employed for 11 years. He also had a side-line – slaughtering animals for local butchers. In spite of this additional revenue they still lived in virtual penury, the entire family inhabiting two small rooms. The bedroom was about 12-foot square and the parents occupied a 3-foot bed in the centre while the children slept on bundles of rags in the corners of the room.
Life had not always been like this for the Witheys. At one time John was running a small shop but in latter years had taken to drink. Jane also had this failing, being described as ‘given away very much to drink, so much so that she was hardly ever out of a public house’.
So this, then, was the situation in February 1889 when Bristol first read about what the Bristol Times and Mirror referred to as ‘The St Philips Mystery’.
It is said that on 11 February, a Monday, ‘nothing particular appeared to have occurred until the evening’. It would seem the first incident which could have presaged trouble ahead was between 6 and 7 o’clock when Jane Withey encountered next door neighbour Alice Bartlett. Alice noted that Jane had been drinking. They parted at the door of number 21.
A short while afterwards Annie Sainsbury from number 18 passed the house and the door was open. Jane was sitting by the fire. She called Annie in and confided to her that she had spent the rent money and was going to bed ‘to get myself square by the time Jack comes in’. Annie was later to testify that Jane had clearly been drinking.
It is at this juncture that certain inconsistencies arose in depositions made following the tragedy but it was generally conceded that the most likely sequence of events was thus. John Withey arrived home from work between 6.00 and 7.00 and sent one of the girls out to get him some supper. Then a few words were exchanged between the couple on the subject of Jane squandering all the money John had given her on Saturday so that there was nothing left to pay the rent.
The youngsters agreed that both parents were cross and irritable and that John Withey had ordered them all to bed at about 7.30. It was suggested this was to avoid the landlord who was due to call at 8 o’clock.
It is hard to imagine how the next couple of hours were spent cooped up in that little room. What is known is that 10-year-old Emily Kate was despatched to Taylor’s bakery on the corner of Sussex Street and Edward Street. According to Mrs Charlotte Taylor, the baker’s wife, the little girl bought a loaf of bread at 10 o’clock. Emily stated she went straight back to bed on her return and did not know whether or not her mother ate her supper. If this is true events must have happened swiftly after that because at 10.30 neighbours were alerted by screams of ‘murder’ emanating from number 21.
Frederick said that it was he who raised the alarm. He could not say what woke him. In court he was to swear that he heard no scream. He simply woke up and went to his mother’s side of the bed where a lamp was left burning on the mantelshelf as he and his brother and the father had to get up early to go to work. He noticed his mother was lying back on the bed with blood flowing from her nose and mouth.
He stated that he then went round to the other side of the bed where his father was snoring loudly and it took him 3 or 4 minutes to wake him up. When John was apprised of the dire situation ‘he made a great outcry and woke up the other children’. Later, Sarah Ann was to state that when she looked at her mother she noticed that the bedclothes were pulled down below her waist and there was blood flowing from her left side.
For some unexplained reason John Withey, on being given the news regarding his wife, immediately took himself off downstairs. Almost immediately Alice Bartlett appeared on the scene, wondering what on earth was happening. The front door did not close properly and a piece of furniture was jammed against it at night. When she was eventually able to enter the house Withey told her t
From ‘The Australian’.comau
CHRISTMAS travel might be cancelled for thousands of stranded passengers as snow and ice continue to cause chaos at airports across a frozen Europe.
The international airline hubs of London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Brussels are struggling to clear a backlog of passengers stranded over the weekend as holidaymakers tried to reach their destinations in time for December 25.
Some travellers who had been sleeping on airport floors since Friday faced further frustration, with aircraft stuck in the wrong places, throwing flight schedules into disarray.
Frankfurt airport even resorted to sending in clowns to ease the frustration, while another accepted the problems could run on for days.
London Heathrow, the world’s busiest international passenger airport, warned travellers to anticipate delays and cancellations “potentially beyond Christmas Day” as it fought to sort out its schedule.
It cut flights down to a third until tomorrow in a bid to get diverted jets and crew back to their normal positions.
Disappointment turned to anger for many weary travellers as money and patience wore thin. Heathrow’s Terminal 3 had been turned into a makeshift camp with exhausted passengers crashed out on temporary mattresses.
“I am ashamed to be British,” said Marian Perkins, 65, who was hoping to fly to Australia to see her new grandson for the first time.
“It’s disgusting. We are here in the cold with the same clothes since Friday, because we don’t carry winter clothes when we go to Australia,” she said.
American musician Giovanni Bet, 22, was trying to get back to Chicago after a tour.
“We were here last night. It was like a shanty camp with people sleeping on the floor,” he said.
British airport operator BAA was forced to defend its handling of the crisis, with chief executive Colin Matthews saying Heathrow had to bring in earthmoving equipment and 50 trucks to remove the snow.
“I cannot remember in my lifetime any episode of cold and snow remotely like today,” he said.
Night-flight restrictions were lifted until Christmas Eve and special repatriation flights were being arranged.
Temperatures reached a record low in Northern Ireland, hitting minus 17.6 degrees Celsius.
Britain’s National Grid forecast a record demand for gas yesterday, while the Automobile Association breakdown service forecast the day would “break all records” for emergency call-outs.
Eurostar, which operates high-speed passenger trains linking London with Paris and Brussels, cancelled some services due to the snow and operated speed restrictions on trains that did run, nearly doubling some journey times.
“We will operate a contingency timetable with some cancellations for a number of days,” the company said.
Five-hour queues stretched around the block in freezing weather from the terminal at London’s Saint Pancras station.
Brussels airport grounded all departures until tomorrow due to lack of de-icing liquid.
There were fresh snowfalls in France, hitting both Paris international airports, Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and Orly.
“Air traffic at all airports in the Paris region is very disrupted,” the civil aviation authority said.
At Roissy, 3,000 people were forced to spend Sunday night in the terminals after 40 per cent of flights were scrapped.
Authorities banned heavy trucks from the roads around Paris and many buses were cancelled in the region, the RATP Paris transport network said.
Frankfurt airport, Germany’s busiest, resorted to clowns to keep stranded children entertained – after the police were sent in, according to press reports, to calm some angry passengers.
The airport scrapped around 340 flights yesterday – mainly because other airports around Europe were closed – after more than a thousand travellers spent the night on camp beds.
Traffic continued to be disrupted at Amsterdam-Schiphol airport, with flights cancelled or delayed due to problems at other airports, spokeswoman Antoinette Spaans said.
In Italy, the bodies of two homeless people were found yesterday, likely victims of the cold.
The western Mediterranean Sea was also affected by bad weather, with crossings between Tarifa in southern Spain and Tangier in northern Morocco suspended.
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