Close the curtains !!!!!!!

We haven’t even got any blinds or curtains at our big kitchen windows. If ever I’m alone in the house late at night, maybe boiling the kettle and looking out at my reflection in the glass, it crosses my mind that we should get some. We’ve lived here 36 years.....

I think God should introduce a new feature to the world that will actually sound creepy music to warn us when there is something in the cellar or outside the front door so we don't open it.

ReadyMeals, I like your thinking!

No matter how cold it is, people walk into a room, sit down and leave the door open!

A few episodes of real life murders in the US on the CBS Reality TV channel and not only have I drawn the curtains whilst still practically light but I'm inspecting both sets for chinks where the mad axeman could be peeping. Another bugbear in Spiral, the French policier, and lots of the Walter Presents Scandi noir is the way police sit in cars in full view of their quarries on surveillance operations. Most of us have a sixth sense that alerts us when we are being watched ( I hope!).

I still remember when renting a semi-basement flat with no kitchen curtain/blind and garden sloping up outside the window, I got up one morning, turned the light on, and there was a man sitting on the lawn looking straight at me!!

Doversole I agree, curtains are needed.

I think sometimes it is women who see the need for privacy and safety provided by blinds or curtains.

I am glad I started this thread, nice to know I am not alone.
I had two Burns Supper Lunches here this weekend, Saturday 28 and Sunday 12 for SILs 50th Birthday.
I dropped the subject into the conversation both days and the response was the same. Close The Curtains.
9 nationalities represented and all agreed.

Yep, Just watched Vera
Lady lives by herself in forest, had a break in
And thought she was been watched.
Big picture windows, No curtains!

Being watched!!

At a slight tangent, why do TV detectives never lock their cars when they get out of them? Endeavour has brought this home forcefully this evening.

Watched Vera too this week, that lady living in a house with large picture windows, with no blinds nor curtains, ALONE deep in a forest!!

I only feel comfortable if all curtains and blinds are shut tight in the evening.

We don't have curtains in the conservatory. We never close the curtains in the lounge. We don't close the bedroom curtains until we go to bed.
'If' there is somebody out there we like to see who it is and be ready with the double barrel ?
Mind you, I think our security lights would scare anybody off

How about the bar worker or waitress who leaves work late at night and walks to her car in a dark deserted car park with her head down searching through her bag for her keys - why wouldn't she get her keys out before she goes out the door!

Or they walk home across dark fields/unlit village streets/woodland while there’s a killer on the loose! Don’t go into the dark places on your own, you fool!!

Someone mentioned Spiral earlier on . What bothers me is that Laure never washes or changes her clothes and Josephine does not possess a hairbrush.

My father always used to make us draw the curtains before we put the light on, 'to save the electricity.'

I always want to scream at people who get into their cars and just drive off. Having watched a few films myself, I never fail to check the back of the car before getting in if it's dark - even if the car was locked.

You never know when someone's going to pop up from behind your seat, reach round and strangle you!