I have become a bit bold-ish these days. Nothing alarming. My version of bold is pretty tame. I am being bold in the sense that I am not spending an inordinate amount of time between certain decisions and actions—albeit decisions related to rather mundane matters and actions involving making phone calls to random tradesfolk such as curtain makers. I have never ever thought this much about curtains my whole life, as I admitted to the curtain measurer who came home. And because of that, I have never ever had any idea of what curtains tend to cost. I imagine they weren't that expensive in Mumbai? My mom used to sew a lot as we were growing up so she even sewed the curtains then... And at a later point there was an interior designer involved who gave us a ready to move house with curtains and all. I never asked what they cost nor was I involved in choosing them. They matched with the rest of the decor. All in all, I have never come face to face with the question of curtains before... and never realized there was so much to face! :(

I believe I have mentioned on this blog a very, very long time ago, I must certainly have, that my favourite colour is yellow. All shades from lime yellow to golden yellow to mustard yellow (not up to brown, brown is a colour I do not like at all, up there with grey which I do not like at all). So obviously I chose a variant of yellow (with a velvety texture) when I browsed the samples in the shop. My sense is whatever else I buy is going to either have a yellow tone or go with a yellow tone (such as green) so that's a good choice. The lady in the shop asked me my name, so I gave my first name. She asked my second name. When I gave it, she goes, "I thought it would be something like that!" I quipped, "like what?" ;) I seem to be meeting a lot of people whom I ordinarily wouldn't meet because of all this and that's interesting I suppose? They tend to say things without "thinking about it", compared to people who think a lot of things but never say it...hehe...

Anyway, so when I got the quote for the curtain and the track to hang it on... I wouldn't say I was shocked exactly because I am now sort of getting used to these shocks... but it was still more on the shocking side: about 1400 pounds! I mean... ! For curtains?! I want to get some comparative figures and have called on another curtain maker to come over and give a sample/quote :?)