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Hello and welcome to Oh What a Time.

This is another one of our Alexander the Great specials.

But before we start talking about Alexander the Great,

I would like to talk about how on earth people potty trained their kids in the pre-nappy potty era and how on earth you got them to sleep you know

in their sort of pre-huggy's pull-ups age what was happening were you just accepting that their bed

was going to be wet you had an awful lot of work to do how did how that happen? It's a really good question.

They used to reuse nappies, didn't they?

Like when you see the classic image of a child 100 years ago,

they're not nappies as such.

They're just wrapped up in like cloths.

That they'll wash and just go away.

Exactly, those nappies would be hung on the line. I think my brothers probably had those. I'm not much old with me when they were very young. I think they did. I think you were born in the Victorian era, Tom. I was very much, should we say a surprise? I think it's probably where. No, no, no, no, not a surprise. I appeared. A gift.

Thank you very much.

That is a good question.

I imagine there's certain times, let's say, I'm imagining like a mud heart in medieval Britain where it would just happen.

It's fine.

You just continued to sleep on that bed.

Because it's made of mud and sticks anyway.

And also before potty training, what was it, was it,

pond training?

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