If you walk around a British city and see the windows plastered with black bin bags, you can be sure that this is an immigrant's house.
For some anomalous fate, in fact, in Great Britain there are no shutters (in the Italian version here there are 3 synonyms of shutters, non existent in English), or whatever you want to call objects designed to mitigate the light in order to sleep or to do something else.
There are the windows, already very strange themselves (see the Multiform anomaly of the windows), and that's it.
So the process is more or less the following for everyone.
You arrive in the UK in summer and spend the first 7 days with a monstrous tiredness.
You immediately realize that the reason for your exhaustion is that you are waking up at 4.30 every morning, that is when daylight comes, since you are positioned a good parallel above Rome, Athens, Madrid, or where you come from.
Then you go and buy roller blinds.
Tot: £ 70.00
You go to sleep, happy with your readiness to solve problems, but the morning after the first light of day pierces your cornea: it comes from AROUND the curtain and for some reason it is a very bright light.
In fact, the curtain is not adherent to the window, and those 2-3 cm that remain apart will screw you.
Then you put the tape all around and you barricade inside the bedroom.
Tot: £ 2.00
And you sleep without problems. But after a few days you get an infinite sadness, because the room is always dark, and above all the stench becomes unbearable, since you can't open the windows.
At this point, immigrants are divided into two categories:
1) Students or young people, who give a damn and will live in that larval situation until graduation.
2) Others, who seek better solutions. Especially parents, who are not so much interested in themselves, but in their children. Because parents, you know, NEVER want their children to wake up earlier, for no reason in the world.
The latter will purchase:
- curtains with suction cups, very expensive, not always easy to find to size, the suction cup starts to come off after about 1 week ...
Tot: £ 70.00
- kilometers of velcro to put all around the windows and then cut to size black plastic fabric, which you have to remove every morning and there are always these black drapes on the floor that suck.
Tot: £ 30.00
- finally, after all the failures and frustrations: the sleeping mask.
Tot .: £ 5.00
For £ 7.00 you can buy the kit for the plane that comes with earplugs, useful for not hearing the children in the morning et voila’.
We recommend the mask immediately.
Basically, this guide is very useful, I would say essential, in order not to waste time in the same long process of purchases. It will save you a summer of swearing and more than 100 pounds.
How THEY manage to sleep, we don't want to know. Because in this specific case we are not curious, very angry and tired.
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