>>Terry,
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>>>I thought it was going to be hand-bags at dawn too.
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>>Was that ever a Monty Python skit? *g*
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>Hey David
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>Not sure. But it's a commonly used expression here. You're probably thinking of the The {something} Town Women's Guild Re-enactrment of the Battle of Britain, where they all laid into each other with hand-bags on a beach somewhere, getting covered in muddy sand. :-)

Oh, I don't know, "Hell's Grannys" was the first thing that popped into my head.