A Very Crepey New Year

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Will this do ??

And the net curtains - he announced he wanted some and alleged the kids wanted them too and they'd all wanted them for years because of the lack of privacy and they'd lived with my insistence against them and now they felt they really needed privacy and I just don't listen to anything I don't want etc etc etc

I am tired (my body-clock is still 5.5 hours ahead) and fed up with the prospect of possibly having to give in over all this.

We don't have nets, but to prevent the locals gazing longingly at our stylish Remain interior decor have stuck that misty film stuff (can't remember it's name) to the bottom part of the (nasty replacement imitation) sash Windows. Would that be a compromise?

Or how about just pointing out that nets are terribly Brexit. Would that butter any parsnips?

I wonder if MN would do a survey to help us in our statistical Brexit interior decor correlation. Or could it turn out, shockingly, to be equating 'stuff I don't have in my house' with 'people who don't vote like me'?

Think you could be onto something there Herbs
Possible next thread title - "The Crepey Echo Chamber in a Post Truth World" - catchy innit?

To be honest, I think if I lived right on the street I'd probably have nets to prevent people peering in. I'd have to have nice fine cotton nets though no nylon.

MI I think you and your DH need to come and take lessons at our house. We like to get it all out there. And DH defers to me on all household matters. Of course.

We don't have nets or film or anything - DH likes to see what's going on on the road like a pet meercat. Nor do we have any of the other things on The List apart from a few houseplants - mostly succulents and aloe vera

I have to admit to being a fan of the blackout roller blind, which works for privacy, as well as allowing one to hide indoors and pretend to be out. < cue childish sniggering>
Nets are a must if you must twitch for your entertainment. Very Brexit If you ask me. Allowing snooping on neighbours of Wrong Voting Tendencies 😲

I suspect you are right about laminate ggg.

MI, we tend towards your way of not discussing things. If I ask dh for advice or opinions, he looks furtive and faffs verbally, trying to sound me out about the correct answer. I suspect because he knows he is about to be exposed as not listening and/or forgetting everything I said last time.

Quick crepeys! Urgent matter of great import.

At long last I can upgrade my shitty phone. To an iPhone 6! But I can't decide between the silver or the gold. < wrings hands >

I'm just scared of being shouted at if I object to something. He'd probably say the same, mind.

He's pointed out he did whatsapp me a pic of the fabric and I didn't object (what with being several continents away and not bothered) and has moved the sofa. There are even more fucking chairs cluttering the living room now and if I say so he'll just get pissed off again.

I TAKE IT ALL BACK

Nice. Definitely not 'naice'.

Now. My phone. Quick smart.

Silver

That's what DP is saying, though I feel a curious pull towards the gold. Silver would go with my jewellery, clothes and (sadly) hair. And would match my iPad. And it is only a phone.

Gold! Go blingy Herbs - it's the new subtle...

Ha! Telepathy.

I feel pleasure at the thought of gold, and pleased when people suggest it. Therefore, gold it is.

Golden phone!! Dh has the very same.

I have a rose gold one.

I think of Brexit decor being like my mother's house. Draylon headboards and tub chairs in the bedroom. Lots of beige carpet and soft furnishings. Floral curtains with fancy pelmets. Onyx (green) "nesting" tables with gold legs. Lots of nicknacks.

I can picture it Mrs S!

Ooh Mrs S, you paint a vivid picture. What about one of those clocks with the rotating spheres underneath, and a glass dome? And those kind of 'moulded' rugs, like Chinese but not as nice. And Jaguar cars. And crystal whisky tumblers.

Oooh Herbs, you're describing my childhood home!

Brushed velvet 3 piece suite in mustard, Wrighton kitchen in orange and slime green, a hot tray and a hostess trolley.

She has that clock, yes. It has a white face with roses on it. No rugs. Cut glass whisky tumblers in the cabinet.

The house I grew up in had an orange kitchen, GGG. But the brushed velvet 3 piece was in green. With flowery cushions. The beds all have fitted bedspreads on them, so they look "tidy"

You both seemed to live in my aunts' bungalows.