New bed duvet

Given up.  Our duvet was about 10 years old, but not used consistently (swapped 2 around now and again and not used in hot weather at all), the blankets are 30 years plus, the patchwork quilt I made last year.  I piled different combinations on the bed, but the old man I sleep with kept complaining, "I'm cold", "There's a draft", "I can't get comfortable..."

For heavens sake!  Finally, on the way back from the library this week I purchased a kings size cheap 13.5 tog winter duvet and a cover.  Total £27 out of my budget. A very nice man (not the husband) helped me carry the bundles up the steps from the River Ouse passenger ferry.

The husband slept like a log, as warm as a bug in a rug;  there was no snoring and no complaining.

Well, some complaining; now I have to sort out the linen cupboard to put all the spare bits and pieces in.  But I must be brave, some of it is past sell by date and must be re-purposed or recycled. No hoarding.