{"id":149878,"date":"2025-03-20T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/scatter-cushions-and-bedspreads-can-someone-explain-to-me-what-theyre-for-adrian-chiles\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T19:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:37:45","slug":"scatter-cushions-and-bedspreads-can-someone-explain-to-me-what-theyre-for-adrian-chiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/scatter-cushions-and-bedspreads-can-someone-explain-to-me-what-theyre-for-adrian-chiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Scatter cushions and bedspreads \u2013 can someone explain to me what they\u2019re for? | Adrian Chiles"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nEvery night I hurl them off the bed. Every morning they are replaced. Off, on, off, on, for ever. Serving no purpose whatsoever. Scatter cushions and bedspreads. Why? What for? If it wasn\u2019t for the waste and environmental impact, I\u2019d make a huge pile and torch them all. You\u2019d see the fire from the moon. Alternatively, pick them apart and make something useful out of them. I\u2019d collect them by means of a national scatter cushion and bedspread amnesty. Post them to a facility and leave the rest to me.Let\u2019s take bedspreads first. Big, heavy, useless. Especially the one on the bed at my mum\u2019s house. I can\u2019t always summon the strength to drag it off the bed and leave it in a heap on the floor. If I do, along with leaving no floor space for anything else, this earns me a fierce bollocking. I am commanded to heave it out of the bedroom and hang it on the bannister, which creaks beneath its formidable weight. Then, when my stay is over, I have to wrangle the bedspread back on to the bed, as it is far too heavy for her to handle. I always ask what purpose it serves. I\u2019ve never had an answer. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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