No cavity walls and a horrendously insulated house but replacing the curtains didn’t seem to make it any worse.
I have the wooden slats type I call them blinds some shutters.
Downside they really attract the dust.
We had some metal venetian blinds in the kitchen which always attracted the dust/dead insects. A replacement fabric roller blind - not so dusty - but just squashes insects leaving a dark mark which is difficult to clean. So replacing the roller blind with a clean one but rather think we may have the same problem over time.
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It wasn’t Thatcher who broke Britain, it was Blair and Brown who have left us a legacy of no skills and overpopulation.
At the start of Blairs tenure the population stood at 58.4 million, and was rising less than one million every ten years or so…In 1990 the population stood at 57.4 million and by the end of John Majors tenure in 1997 it had risen to 58.4 million.
Due to to Blairs interference and importing foreign workers while all our young school leavers were academically equipped instead of learning trades, the population now stands at 69.5 million in 2025…And that only accounts for all the documented and legal incommers.
So since Blair and Brown, the population has sprung up by almost 12 million people in 15 years…
Hence the reason why our NHS is vastly overworked and swamped, it’s why the condition of roads and services have deteriorated to third world status, industry has transferred to foreign countries due to the lack of skills and workers who don’t mind getting their hands dirty, and manufacturing is all but none existent, preferring to buy cheap good from elsewhere.
All our transport, energy and communications are controlled by foreign companies, and wasting money on things like carbon capture, solar panels and wind turbines is creating poverty and keeping people poor. And it’s no surprise that Labour have yet again screwed up this country with Ed Miliband being the worst offender.
And people dare to say that Margaret Thatcher broke Britain… 
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Aren’t we being a tad overly concerned about what lives inside a carpet?
Keep it cleaned and well hoovered regularly but lets not be paranoid about bugs in carpets after watching watching too many advertisements for vax carpet cleaners and shampoo machines…
I have always had a cat (dogs are far too much trouble and dirty to have in a house) Rosie sits all day washing, eating and sleeping and occasionally patrols her domain. She virtually looks after herself but allows us the odd stroke and cuddle. She very rarely claws the carpets but prefers to sharpen her claws on the three piece suite and the wood fence outside despite having a £100 scratching pole in the corner that she never uses, but that’s just cats…
Your bed probably contains more bugs, waste skin, and bodily fluids (skin is what the bugs like) than do the carpets because they don’t get hoovered as often and you don’t sleep on them or do other stuff…
I’m sorry if it wasn’t clear why I shared the anecdote about how the north east of Scotland experienced growth and crash that ran inversely to the growth and crash cycle of the rest of the UK. The point was to highlight the problem of focusing on personal experience to make a claim about what happened across the whole country. Lots describe the 70’s as miserable strike ridden times. This is clearly a good summary for the entire country. But for a few hundred thousand in and around Aberdeen the 70’s was boom time. If we relied only on my experience of the 70’s we would claim it was a period of great wealth, new buildings and money splashing around. I used my personal experience to highlight how poor using personal experience is to make a broader judgement. Not to make the mistake of believing personal experience is a valid argument.
No-one is saying the impact of Thatcher was all bad and everyone’s experience during Thatcher was bad. There were clearly winners - but there were a lot more losers. Yes the good stuff was really good for those who benefitted. But at the same time more people were experiencing unemployment, reduction in wages, whole towns with little prospects, dead high streets, low investment, loss of public housing. Hence my comment about perhaps thinking about the personal experience of people growing up in those places as well as your own personal experiences.
Well, the second hand book arrived, and what a hefty volume it is too, not bad for just over three quid including postage!
On opening the cover I discovered this…
It’s quite strange idly wondering who these people were and are they still around.
I can’t imagine anybody writing this in a book about Margaret Thatcher!
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the way I see it is that the lazy not prepared to move or make an effort are anti Thatcher
Purely because they prefer to live on handouts from the state.
Those of use made the effort to move-go self employed - physically grafted are the ones that succeeded under her.
So now they still moan about those years yet i have to ask what did anyone do to alter their life style.
Even my cousin went to Canada to get work (he lives in Cornwall)for a few years because work was non existant in that part of the country
That’s a rather simplistic view, in my opinion of course.
I grew up in Central London during the Thatcher years of the recession and high unemployment in the early eighties.
I could always find work, it was there if I looked for it!
Did I like Thatcher, no I didn’t!
I’m just commenting on my own past experiences, not making assumptions about other people’s circumstances at the time.
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Many who are anti-Thatcher (like me) have had to move to get work, made lots of effort to get work and to do that work, actually succeeded during her tenure. London was full of people not from London, so not just me. But guess what, I did a lot better during the Blair years. As did many. And getting laid off at 50+ from a mine or factory does not leave many options at all. Your claim is at best a gross generalisation and at worst blinkered bias. Let’s just call it wrong.
So I’m going to say that the people who most moan are the ones bemoaning Thatcher’s demise, when the hard truth is that it was two terms too late.
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Wasn’t that due to North sea oil and gas?
Being an engineer I had lots of friends who went to work on the rigs, they came home rolling in money.
In fact most of them went on to do very well after they left the oil and gas business.
It seems just a waste that the UK had been unable to capitalise on the gas and oil still under the sea after it provided us with such wealth once. We still use the same gas and oil but buy it off Norway.
It seems like labour governments do everything in their power to keep the country poor and unemployed when their is so much wealth underground, including coal.
Isn’t prosperity, a healthy economy and peoples lives more important than saving less than 0.1% of the worlds carbon…
Wasn’t it Norman Tebbit who told folks to “Get on their Bikes”? I was already on mine and still am 
See. I did all that was asked, and still am 
My now deceased cousin had a carpeted bathroom. I had my only bath for the last 60 years there, it was terrifying. I had a war time bath.
Margaret Thatcher is entirely to blame for such poor taste in bathroom decor.
Yup. All these ‘I’m Alright Jack’ types forget the Big Bang lead to the Big Recession of the late 80’s early 90’s…it was funny money. Not real. Selling England (and the UK by the Pound.
My Dad had to move south cos of her, and I don’t remember my childhood in Manchester or down in ‘leafy’ Surrey being dramatically better cos of her.
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Random fact: the painter of that portrain I did my A level Art essay on him - Ruskin Spear. And then weirdly I went onto to study for a short time under his son at Chelsea.
Ruskin often worked from photos, so painted that from a newspaper photo.
More people know his son, Roger Ruskin Spear, from the Bonzo Dog Band.
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Sea levels are not rising? LOL. Even a random chart can’t dispell the fact that they are.
A 30 second oogle tells you otherwise:
Unless ‘NASA is lying’ LOL.
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Also not true https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-do-we-know-how-long-carbon-dioxide-remains-atmosphere
Is MIT lying as well?
I’ll give you Antarctica, but a grain of truth in a sea of lies doesn’t make the ice in the Arctic not melt?
I get my sources from scientists like this one - you might find this interesting:
" Warmer temperatures, rising seas and shifting ecosystems are all familiar from the natural “glaciation cycle,” but today’s warming has a different cause and is happening much faster."
https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/todays-climate-change-similar-natural-warming-between-ice-ages
Maybe don’t get your scientific info from the Daily Mail and tabloids? Attenborough - who I never watch and BBC - rarely also - are on the side of 99.99% of scientists. And no they aren’t ‘leaving in droves’ over climate change.
Is that a GB News take?
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Was Maggie responsible for Yuppie Flu 
Worst thing the could happen to a Yuppie was getting their thumb caught in their Filofax
Surely it doesn’t matter if the ice in the Arctic melts? it is floating so it won’t raise sea level a single centimetre. On the other hand the ice in the Antarctic is mostly on the continent itself so its melting will end up in the sea and will raise sea levels