Arguments Thread

Sounds like a very posh holiday home Suziewoozie. Was that in the UK?

Blinking heck, suzie are you trying one upman/womanship here?

All my blinds are roman or roller. Can't be bothered with all the dusting of vertical blinds. Don't those plantation shutters trap the dust?

Said my bit about log burners.

New home has open plan room (south facing) with one wall almost totally glass. Luckily we only have the wildlife looking in. Trees surround us. No blinds or curtains.
Bedrooms also face south. I'm about to hang curtains with eyelets. They will skim the slate floor (1cm off it).

In last home, pooled curtains. Now think they look ridiculous. It's meant to help with draughts and loosing heat. I'd sooner get the windows sorted so there are no draughts. In current old cottage with single glazing we have blinds - to keep the draughts out. So looking forward to our new home. Air tight!

Shutters cut out the light. A bit like Venetian blinds, you have to clean them.
Laura is that the Pole who used to work at the Argy or one of the firemen's? ?

Peaseblossom what do you mean?
I really do care about the environment. Having vertical blinds means I can redirect the sun off my soft furnishings, so I don’t have to replace them so often because of fading. I suppose I could just draw the curtains and sit in the dark when the sun’s out.
Curtains make the room look nice and help keep the heat in when it’s cold.

LauraNorder

Sounds like a very posh holiday home Suziewoozie. Was that in the UK?

I only ever stay in upmarket holiday homes both her and abroad - but these two were UK (the Fens and Dorset) . I would love a modern home -

muse if you’re room is air tight you won’t be able to breathe. Have you thought this through properly ?

Muse, do you live in the forest?

Not being serious Mollygo.

Just trying to enter into the spirit of the thread.

(And appease FannyCornforth?)

FannyCornforth

'Grubby FannyCornforth'
Grandmajet - is that me?

I forgot to insert a comma! Grubby Fanny, Cornforth!

Peasblossom that's more like it
Grandmajet what?!

Uh oh ?

Grubby, Fanny Cornforth?
Is that better.
Eats shoots leaves all over again.

I love those big drapey lengths of material designers hang and twist over the curtain pole.
No I don’t, I hate them, they can’t be drawn on a winters evening.
Oh but I love them because they do save on lots of sewing.
They’re awful and usually pool on the floor, a disgusting habit.
Are you calling me disgusting?
Well if the cap fits......
You are so argumentative
Well that’s the purpose of the thread.
Oh yes you’re right, I agree

I wipe my plantation shutters once a year. Otherwise quick flick with a feather duster. They don’t gather dust, maybe I’m lucky to have a not so dusty house.
I would argue that shutters and blinds would not gather any more or less dust than curtains but can be wiped as necessary whereas most good quality curtains would harbour dust and need to be dry cleaned.
NB I did say ‘I would argue’. Do I get brownie points for that?

A feather duster? Don't you care about the birdies?!

All except crows who eat the rubber on my windscreen wipers. I’ll look out for a crowfeather duster.

The magpies eat the seal on our front door out of spite because we don’t feed them any more, as a precaution against marauding rats. Well we did see a very big one once!

Oh don't talk to me about magpies. They scratch the moss (or maybe lichen) off the roof in the early hours and wake discograndad up. I blame the neighbours for putting bread out.

Following my earlier punctuation mishap - unintended, of course ? - I think we could have a good argument about the proper use of punctuation. People are just too lazy these days with their commas and apostrophes, and often really don’t care. Vegetables are particularly likely to suffer.
Tomatoe’s and potatoes’.

I woz always tort you don’t put a comma before and grandmajet so there. You got it wrong already. ?

Doodle

muse if you’re room is air tight you won’t be able to breathe. Have you thought this through properly ?

According to the building regs these days all new build have to be airtight to a certain level. Leakage can be no more than 10m³/h/m²@50pa — or 10m3/hr. In other words, the amount of air escaping is as low as possible.

We've put in a mechanical heat recovery ventilation system, to maintain a healthy atmosphere. No moisture in the air. So no window vents, extractor fans, letter box etc.

Council will do an air tight test before signing off the house and give an energy certificate.

Discogran. Yes.

You can put a comma before and to separate two independent clauses Doodle. So there!
(What is an independent clause please someone! Is it something to do with Christmas?)

No I think it something cats have grandmajet