Queen's not so cosy home - do you have any clothes that match your furnishings?

I would think it's, sort of, imagining what someone is like. And then stereotyping them. As that. HTH

Feeling better now, just seen the Podiatrist, wondering whether Her Maj could do with a visit and whether that would explain the sad face .
My face was rather like a dog's bottom before tho', I must admit.
Local gossip has it that Lord Bath ( he of wifelet fame) cut up some very expensive drapes to make bell-bottomed trousers, way back.
P.S. to Bags What's a 'speculative stereotype'?

Do Royal pooches smell? Aren't aristocratic dogs made of cleaner stuff than mere mongrels?

If me and my house were to be colour coordinated I would be surrounded by black and denim. Mind you, I do have a tartan sofa, because when the kids were young I realised that designs like that didn't show marks. Often wonder how much the Royal Palaces smell of dog.

I now intend to model my sitting room on HM's Balmoral pad. Just my style.

Love guddle *Gally.

I think it's good to see that she lives in a bit of a guddle like the rest of us, with mismatched furniture and all her bits and pieces around her. I too have a little convector heater like that which I cart from room to room when I need a bit of extra heat. Good on yer, yer Maj - just off to tidy up my sitting room just in case any visitor feels like taking a sly photie on his mobile

Cheers, jess. Your posts are often very amusing. I just don't like such speculative stereotypes.

Sorry about that bags - Gn gets a bit serious sometimes and I suppose my feeble attempts to add a bit of lighthearted nonsense cannot please everyone. Thank you for the tweet by the way.
She could probably afford to treat herself to a fancier fire
e.g.
www.gr8fires.co.uk/dimplex-living-art-remote

We have one exactly like it too, merlot. I use it when I can't sleep and come down to read during cold nights.

We've got one of those heaters in our living room. I whack it on for an hour in the morning just to take the chill off. No point in lighting the woodburner or switching on expensive central heating until absolutely necessary.

Nice to know I'm up there with the aristocracy

Indeed, jings, or even wood. But maybe it is a room that isn't used much.

Bet they have North Sea gas central heating though. More efficient than coal fires.

Well, your 'humour' in this thread still pisses me off, jess. You wouldn't let someone making sexist stereotype 'jokes' off the hook, would you? No difference, really. One rule of behaviour for all.

That's probably not a huge room. I would think it is her own private sitting room. They were staying as personal guests. Very bad manners to get your i-phone out and snap a pic.

I would have thought they could have lit a coal fire.

Taking parsimony a bit too far. IMO.

bags this is not meant to be a serious thread, hence the grin.
Also I don't think the aristocracy need anyone to spring to their defence do they?
She is obviously careful with her money otherwise she would have more expensive electric fires.

I'm also surprised at the 'classist' stereotyping coming from one who objects, quite rightly, to other kinds of injurious stereotyping. Just saying. Because I find it bloody irritating.

No. Don't be silly, jess. Besides, are you suggesting HM (or her housekeeper) is a mean employer and doesn't look after her employees properly?

That said, I expect you'd find my house cold. I'm not an aristocrat.

Have you ever even visited Scotland?

Aren't aristocrats made of sterner stuff than us mere mortals bags ?
And one only has to look at the size of Buck House.... would one squander hundreds of ££ a years on keeping the servants warm?
Have to report that, according to one of the weekend paper supplements, kilts are bang on trend! Which just goes to prove that if you keep your clothes long enough they will come back into fashion again and again.

I have recently worn out, after wearing them solidly for four or five years, two pairs of trousers (baggy, naturally, and with huge pockets) I made from some curtains which had hung in my first Oxfordshire house for seven years and my second Oxfordshire house for almost eight years. Navy blue background and large, rather Jacobean florals. Lots of people said they liked them. Even people I didn't know. Young hippy types mainly who, after asking me where I got them and being told that they were my recycled curtains, said "Cool!"

Never did want to dress the same as everyone else.

I do not believe the queen's Balmoral rooms, public or private, are insufficiently heated. That wee heater is, as I said earlier, for extra heat, on top of the central heating. And it's only there because it's less messy (and she can even plug it in and switch it on herself) than having a coal fire in that fireplace.

Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to spend a winter in an old house in the highlands.

Absent - respect on the trouser making. I have a treasured photograph of me, my two sisters, and my oldest daughter, then aged about 6, all wearing long Laura Ashley frocks, in clashing prints, all with long flowing hair. It's a real time frame. I loved the photograph of Queenie, looking like I often feel - just go home will you! Her cluttered room, expensive antiques next to what look like stuff I try (and fail) to leave in charity shops or at car boot sales. We stayed in an old manor house with a big group of friends recently - the furnishings were strikingly similar to those in this photograph. An overwhelming collection of mis matched pieces - fabulous.

Surely this is a public room, however hideous, not the private put-your-feet-up and lie back one.

It does look like a second hand shop, doesn't it? A very boring one too.

And it also looks very uncomfortable - nowhere to lie back with your feet up. How sad to be so rich, yet cold and uncomfortable, and to sit in such an inhospitable room.

It's the tassels that do it.