harrogate,
Sorry to be a nuisance, but I have searched my copy of Brewer's "Dictionary of Phrase & Fable" and I cannot find any reference to "Mary Hell". Could you please enlighten us?
PS. Regarding the "Wider World" - at the age I was 22 I was on my second Squadron having already been to places as diverse as Tehran and Stockholm (not to mention helping the invasion of a Carribean island).
Last edited by cazatou; 15th Jan 2008 at 10:15.