up to bed

Using wooden arrows and woodland animals, this small print is ideal to place on the stairs to encourage your children to go up and get ready for bed. I’ve used silver ink to highlight the ‘up to bed’ message.

The phrase dates back into the late 19th century, ‘Bedfordshire’ was just a convenient elongation of ‘bed’. ‘Wooden hill’ had been used as code for ‘stairs’ for some time.

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