FLANNELETTE pyjamas (Evening Press, February 10), are the ideal bedtime outfit during this cold snap and I am hoping for a set like those in your picture.

My favourites at the moment carry the cheery greeting: "happy winter" from jolly blue snowmen. The ensemble is completed by angora-wool bedsocks and short, white cotton gloves.

There may be a frisson of excitement at this revelation, but the gloves are worn over lashings of moisturiser, purely to alleviate the chapping associated with scullerymaid's hands. The 'master' did present me with a ruched elbow-length set in black satin, but they were most unsuitable and speedily exchanged for wholesome items.

If I persevere with the rubber gloves he also splashed out on (in a stunning shade of burnt orange) each time my hands plunge into hot suds, I could eventually dispense with the wrist-length variety at bedtime and keep them for weddings. Instead, those heart-shaped diamond ear studs (also pictured) should glamorise my winceyette world. I'll pass on the Stephen Lewis tongue piercing (also February 10). Whatever will the daredevil report on next?

Margaret Lawson,

Aldborough House,

The Groves, York.

Updated: 08:44 Saturday, February 14, 2004