Who decorates your home?

Anybody ever watched the British Sitcom called ‘Keeping Up Appearances’?

- Birjees Hussain

The main character was Hyacinth Bucket, which Hyacinth insisted was pronounced ‘bou quet’ because it sounded better than bucket. The key to her character was her excessive need to be clean, prim and proper. But she was also very house proud. Everything had to be in the right place and nothing was moved without her approval.

She was excessively polite to everyone, including her husband, Richard, and her sisters even though they embarrassed her every time they made an appearance. Richard was not afraid of her but to avoid any disagreements, he would simply do as she said because the last thing he wanted to hear was, ‘no no no, Richard Dear. That goes there.’ It was clear Richard didn’t have much of a say in what went on in the house, especially not to its interior.