Any Ideas Please

[JinnyJoan]

Well after all these years of buying king size stuff for the bed - sheets and particularly covers (king size) I have decided to buy double duvet and last night just having the double one It was lovely and comfortabe.

However I don't have double bed cover and loads of king size ones - I struggled to put one on there but it not does sit too well - don't really want to buy any more duvet covers - so anything I can do with the king sized one.  Thanks  

[barry1010]

All you can do is cut the excess off and so them back up again. 

[davebro3]

If you don't sew yourself just get them altered. It shouldn't cost much. A lady up the road does clothing repairs etc. for me - quite reasonable.

I use a double duvet on my king size bed - works better for me than a king size one.

[DDIL]

Good Morning,

Considering how much it will cost to have someone trim your kingsize to double, you will probably be better of treating yourself to some new linens.

Give the old ones to a charity shop.

[Prudie]

Or you could just buy some double sided iron on hemming tape and stick the extra bit down on one side. Incredibly fiddly though. 

[Vagus]

Or you could do as we do...dispense with duvet covers altogether and just have a top sheet between you and the duvet.

I think you've said in the past that all your bed linen is white, as ours is, so a white duvet looks fine without a cover. No more fighting with duvets and covers, king size or double, just change the sheet.

[barry1010]

That's what we do, Vagus, but JJ said in an earlier post that she can't get on with that

[JinnyJoan]

no I have bought a new one double one - pick it up shortly.  that'll do me rightly - but thanks for all your help.  

 

no couldn't get on with that sheet scenario cos I am all over the bed and so is the sheet

[rowanwitch]

Duvet cover

Stitch a three inch strip down both sides, that then gives you the right width for a double

[JinnyJoan]

thanks Rowan for your answer but I wouldn't have the patience - I will just give the rest to the Charity shops.

Not that this has anything to do with it - but my doctor gave me anaemia tablets last Thursday and I thought I was going to litrally die this morning with Constipation.  That was the worst of all I have ever had.  I ended up doing a smart thing - I got into the shower and roasted the ass of myself and not to be crude but bit by bit came away although I had to go back to the toilet for the rest.  Now I know what it is like to have a baby.  So I am exhausted and am lying down on the bed one minute then I am up.  Thank God I am free but am worried about taking any more but need them.  I did buy Floradix which I haven't taken so dont know whether to take it either with the tablets.  Am so so tired and worried about my little baby Maxie - he knows I am not too good.  

 

[barry1010]

JJ, don't be embarrassed.  I mentioned my very bad, painful bout of constipation on here some time ago, I had what is properly called 'impactation'.  I felt totally drained for a couple of days after.  Hope you're feeling tickety boo soon.  Get some prunes or fig rolls.

[barry1010]

Floradix also contains iron.  Speak to your pharmacist or GP before taking it

[JinnyJoan]

thanks Barry - but a friend of mine suggests suppositories but I often wonder about them to be crude - how the hell can you get them up with the massive impactation.  anyway I 'm free at the moment never want that again.  God bless all mothers coming through all that pain of childbirth.  

[barry1010]

*whisper* it was a bowl of hot soapy water and rubber gloves that cured it for me. 

[JinnyJoan]

well it was the shower which was brilliant and also I keep a bottle of Liquid Paraffin which helps to smooth the way.  

[rowanwitch]

Probably better to have a sachet of fybogel a couple of times a day, combined with a 'pusher' like sodium docusate.  Ask your gp for prescriptions.  They may suggest senna which is a lot cheaper. 

[calmck]

Also drink plenty of fluids. Prunes help and you could ask the chemist to suggest a mild laxative