Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Nikkster

michaels wrote: »

No - you have just shattered all the illusions I held of you...nets? What century are we in / were you born in?

Well I want born this century, that's for sure! Life is gloomy enough without keeping the curtains shut

I needed something cheap and easy (some might say, something like the owner) and the nets I saw last time I was in the aforementioned Swedish purveyor of all stuff fitted the bill:
http://m.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/art/10070262/
Really not that offensive.

Since I discovered my now home town has a history of lace-making (can you tell my mum was here for a week so I've now visited a number of local museums?) I'm tempted to learn how to make lace and add some unicorns or something equally ridiculous (thus ensuring will never be in need of a wedding dress).

PasturesNew

Nets are great if you want a cheap solution to give you privacy from prying eyes - whether that's because you're trotting around in your panties, or because you don't want people staring in the windows when you're not at home (casing it up). If they can't see in, they don't know IF you're in, or what you're wearing/not.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Some hope, eh! I'd like to hope you'd at least "settle for" somebody that could afford to buy you a dress rather than have you forced into making your own with a few bits of random net.

Clearly my mother has no such hope left. The look on her face showed she wasnt joking!

I've kept the left over bits of netting mind you. Never know when they might come in handy

michaels

I thought younger people did nothing at all (and often didn't close the curtains even when it was dark) and then when you get a little older you get blinds? WE do Venetians which need to be carefully angled, more upmarket get expensive wooden ones.

Nikkster

michaels wrote: »

I thought younger people did nothing at all (and often didn't close the curtains even when it was dark) and then when you get a little older you get blinds? WE do Venetians which need to be carefully angled, more upmarket get expensive wooden ones.

It was more like not opening the curtains even when it's light here... I do have a bus stop and usually some traffic stopped at traffic lights outside my house. I don't want to become a local landmark :eek:

I'm hoping to replace the windows before too long and would rather save the £££ for that. And as I said, don't think shutters would suit this house, and I'm not keen on venetian (or more specifically the dusting)

At £2.50 per window, plus £1.49 for a net curtain wire (not including tailoring labour) I think it's a bargain.

Besides, lets face it. I'm not that young any more!

Generali

Nikkster wrote: »

It was more like not opening the curtains even when it's light here... I do have a bus stop and usually some traffic stopped at traffic lights outside my house. I don't want to become a local landmark :eek:

I'm hoping to replace the windows before too long and would rather save the £££ for that. And as I said, don't think shutters would suit this house, and I'm not keen on venetian (or more specifically the dusting)

At £2.50 per window, plus £1.49 for a net curtain wire (not including tailoring labour) I think it's a bargain.

Besides, lets face it. I'm not that young any more!

Do they twitch?

Doozergirl

I won't have nets and venetians wound me up in the last houses.

We have some privacy here as we have trees at the end of the drive that block most of the view. Unless your father in law turns up and is parked in the drive as he was earlier. At least I had brand new underwear on.

michaels

Doozergirl wrote: »

I won't have nets and venetians wound me up in the last houses.

We have some privacy here as we have trees at the end of the drive that block most of the view. Unless your father in law turns up and is parked in the drive as he was earlier. At least I had brand new underwear on.

Perhaps if you are still young like Niks you can get away with nets as kind of ironic whereas if you are more mature like me and doozerG you have to worry that people might think you had really chosen to have them....

Nikkster

michaels wrote: »

Perhaps if you are still young like Niks you can get away with nets as kind of ironic whereas if you are more mature like me and doozerG you have to worry that people might think you had really chosen to have them....

Yeah, seriously... young? :rotfl: Though I'm sure most passers-by probabky think it's my parents' house. The benefits of dressing like a student I'm definitely not mature though!!

Wait til they have unicorns and subversive messages embroidered onto them... then they'll really look ironic. Until then they'll look cheap and practical (as they are). And mean I don't have to worry about the state I hang around my house in whilst also getting some daylight.

zagubov

The wind's deafening here. Can hear it at the chimney and the rain's battering the windows.