Richard III, Anna Massey, and refurbishing my bedroom

[kalypso_v]

1) Thanks to The Guardian, for praising Richard III's public record on today's leader page.

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Comments

[archbishopm]

All's I can advise is (a) wall-to-wall carpets are evil incarnate and (b) don't put a vanity mirror where you'll be likely to catch yourself reflected in it should you sit bolt upright in the dead of night unless you are fairly confident that your secret midnight self does not look like a ghastly undead spectre come to swallow your soul.

[kalypso_v]

I'm afraid the one snag of realigning the bed from east-west to north-south is that I will be right opposite the mirror over the sink. But I don't sit bolt upright in the dead of night very often.

[archbishopm]

I don't sit bolt upright in the dead of night very often.

Ooh, you know, I didn't think I did either, till the Mirror Situation arose.

[kalypso_v]

Perhaps I can get a curtain, or veil or something to drape over it.

[kalypso_v]

Have now spent five nights sleeping opposite the mirror, and haven't sat bolt upright yet. Have tried sitting up intentionally, and can just about see my face in the bottom of the mirror if I strain upwards. But it's very fuzzy as, now the bed's aligned with the longest axis of the room, the mirror is about four and a half metres away and I can't see much at that distance without my glasses (which I don't usually wear in bed).