Confession. Anyone else as nosey as me ?

I'll have to borrow some trophies and medals to display on my bookshelves alongside some freshly cut flowers in my best vase. Maybe a bottle of Y'Quem in the ice-bucket or is that too pretentious...???

*d'Yquem. No good at French.

I'd have to borrow the DC's trophies as I don't think I ever won one myself.
They can't take after me, can they!
And am hopeless at flower arranging.
Now, I must go through the books and weed out all the ones which are not intellectual.

I would drink the Y'Quem first.
Dutch courage

Yes, that as well!


Cava just doesn't hack it

Michael Gove’s curtains today look like something from the 1980’s, Charliegirl.

I bet I would envy some of your kitchens.

Mine is on hold now.

J52
Yes, I agree, must take care of public image! I will have to smarten myself up by Tuesday... have become a bit scruffy casual of late. May need to attack my fringe with the kitchen scissors. And I'll definitely have to do a trial run and make sure I'm not revealing too much clutter in the background...

SueDonim and Charleygirl
Did you see Michael Gove's curtains today?

It's the picture frames at a cock skewed angle that irritate me. I want to reach out and straighten them up!

It's better than Through the Keyhole.

Yes, I did, JoyBloggs, see my earlier post!

SueDonim Sorry, hadn't seen your post about Mr Gove's curtains... think I must have been slow writing my last post and didn't refresh. Glad you saw them!

I'm beginning to feel quite guilty about my new hobby of house-snooping... all these kind people working from home to keep us informed/entertained and revealing their taste in furnishings. Perhaps I need to get out more... but I guess that won't be for quite a while

All those pristine kitchens........ I think they have had their cleaners in!!!

I've got a pristine kitchen at the moment. No GC charging through it dripping orange juice or milkshakes all over the floor. No banana skins left to go black on the worktop. No toast or biscuit crumbs on the chairs and floors. And no cake mixture splattered up the tiles from children's home baking sessions. I hate it.

I saw an interview with someone today, can't remember who, but did love her wallpaper.

Steph ? the Yorkshire lass, BBC presenter etc who recently had a baby, is WFH and admitted (albeit stretching the truth a bit IMO) scrubbing her kitchen floor and cleaning the whole place, before showing the results of her efforts to us through the 5 strategically placed cameras filming the prog robotically, from a crew inside her garage.
Nowt special.
I like a house to be homey, not as if you can't lean on a cushion and best if all, if there's a bit of baking in the oven and kettle boiling...???☕???

Steph McGovern...

One of the Points West presenters was interviewed in her lovely, immaculate kitchen by her co-presenter who was in the studio.

He said 'I've never seen your kitchen look so tidy, Alex'!

I missed the curtains, I wonder if I can find them in a clip.

Hope they're not the same as mine!!

Callistemon

I can't find anything - what were they like?

Callistemon

All you have to do is ask Google via voice recognition on your mobile.
I've just said 'Michael Gove's curtains' and a pic came up immediately.
They're truly awful?

oh, I will try tomorrow, thank you.

Please don't let them be like mine .....

Here you are + some of the remarks on Twitter.