" Sometimes, if the room has a bathtub or shower in it, she'll pick a shower curtain that matches the wallpaper so "you can close that shower curtain off and it looks like a wall.

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The one-off challenge match provided an ideal curtain-raiser for the Champions Trophy, with Australia showing their determination to prove they are still the game's top one-day side.

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The new county cricket season is almost upon us - with the traditional curtain-raiser between the MCC and the county champions kicking off the season at Lord's on Thursday.

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It would be a slight improvement to add a curtain over the virtual porthole (rather than a switch to shut it on and off), so that guests can leave the video running and wake up with the sense that the sun is "virtually" peeking though their curtains.

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