I know it doesn’t seem like much, but after a rather harrowing experience at IKEA on Friday evening I ended up with a few much-needed things that I hadn’t picked up during the last harrowing visit … and then I saw these curtains.

Dead cheap at 10 euros but gauzy and pretty and, although they aren’t any great shakes and hang a bit wonkily, they are so perfect for that one livingroom set of balcony windows that gets the morning sun. It’s also the only window that neighbours can see into and, well, they can’t anymore!

Of course now that I’ve got them up I wish I’d bought another pair to put up elsewhere. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to spend busfare and hours of my life again just to buy a 10 euro item.

Or will I…?