To think there is something a bit strange about leaving your curtains shut all day, every day?

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I live opposite some flats, and over the past year or so (I've got a small baby, I don't get out much) I've noticed that the majority of the windows always have their curtains drawn. Well, except for the flat occupied by the granny in a vest who stares at my house for several hours a day...

I always open all the curtains in my house as soon as we get up for the day - it feels wrong not to. Seriously though, there are some flats over there that never have the curtains open, but why not? This is destined to be one of life's little mysteries, isn't it?

Our sitting room backs onto the road and we get loads of nosy fuckers looking in our house,. it is ialso visible to the whole of the finance dept of the RUH - so I have the curtains shut 60% of the time, because if me and my kids want to lounge arpound in our own filth until lunchtime, I don;t particularly want people looking in on me

Our neighbours not only keep all their curtains tightly closed 24/7 but they appear to only be home on Tuesday nights, leaving early on Wednesday morning, and rarely in the same car. Who would change their car that often?

DH is convinced next door is an MI5 safe house.

Maybe nobody lives there permanently.

I'm with the vampire theory.

do folk really have nothing better to do than watch the movements of their neighbours?

8.12pm Bathroom light on - outline of person seen in window - person sat on loo
8.22pm - person arose from loo - time elapseds suggests bowel opening.

Incidentally my children are seven and four and I still don't get out much.

DP closes the bedroom curtains when he's walking around. Apparently he doesn't want people watching him ; lovely though he obviously is, god among men and all that (ie perfectly presentable 40ish shortish Asian chap) I think he overestimates his charms.

SheikYerbouti - I do wish my neighbours opposite would get a bathroom blind. I can see them sitting on the bog. They've done the rest of the house out in lovely expensive looking roman blinds... why not the bathroom too? Wavy glass is see through when you have a light on.

the neighbours sat on the cludgie -eughhhh

maybe the sun shines right in them on that side of the building
maybe they feel the need to hide from the world....speaking from experience on both counts

pmsl @ 'cludgie'

scottishmummy - are you Dundonian?

maybe they don't like you looking in all the time.

I leave the curtains in the dining room shut if I haven't tidied up as I don't want people seeing the bombsite!

Ah themoon, I keep nagging my DH to please close the blind in the loo in the evening as otherwise everyone in the street will be able to clearly see him going the loo. He never listens, people will be scarred for life!

lol branflake, it's not as if I sit here taking notes ;)

I keep the curtains open most of the time, in fact we have 2 sets of patio doors in the lounge and they are still open. The only people who could look in are our neighbours as their very long driveway is at the side of our house. DH however is obsessed with closing the curtains as soon as there is even a hint of darkness.

The only thing that does bug me is that one of our kitchen windows faces onto said neighbours driveway and every morning some of them have a good look into our kitchen, where normally I am in PJ's with my hair stuck up on end having breakfast. I just think it is quite rude and certainly wouldn't do it to them.

Do people really look up ay bathroom windows and take note of people going to the toilet? DH thinks so, I don't think anyone is interested enough!

I wish the neighbour out the back would close his curtains, we have our own ugly naked guy just like "friends", we only spotted him after we had lived here over a year as we where watching the fireworks display out the back upstairs window that one of our neighbours was putting on, now I know he is there its very off-putting, they have huge ceiling to floor glass windows the whole of the groundfloor and ugh.

We swapped our daughters bedroom from that room to the front and DD2 now has that room, hopefully he will have moved by the time she is old to notice.

So be thankful they keep there curtains closed you have no idea what wonderful images you are being saved from!

We have to keep the curtains closed in the front room nearly all day due to the sun. Its very very bright in here and I don't like be blinded and neither does my ds.

I took our bedroom curtains down 2 months ago to wash them. Needless to say they are now folded up on the blanket chest, clean but unhung.

Oh god, we might be the Ugly Naked Guys in our street...