Kittens make it curtains for curtains

I had some padded curtains in my bedroom that I got years ago at an Oxfam shop. Getting 2 14-week old rescue kittens nearly 3 years ago meant they were badly ripped. They semed to have calmed down so I thought I would get some replacement curtains. I don't go for expensive curtains, especially as the cats might decide to dig their claws into the new pair, but I found some gold ones in a catalogue (my bedroom is dark wood with gold/golden yellow). The curtains are very thin material with very thin linings so they are letting in a bit more light than the old pair, even allowing for the old pair's missing stuffing! The catalogue also sold thermal linings, but black-out, thermal linings. I like to open one eye and tell whether I can roll over and go back to sleep or doze until the alarm goes (autumn and spring) or be able to tell at a glance at the clock if there is time to roll over and go back to sleep even though it is already light without waking properly (summer). When I did a thermal lining curtain workshop with Transition Leytonstone last year I made black-out, thermal linings for the spare room curtains as the window is not far away from a street lamp. At New Year I warned a friend that they were black-out linings but the significance didn't sink in and she would have overslept if I hadn't been up and about watching the time! Hopefully I will see Jan, who ran the curtain lining workshop, at a Transition Leytonstone even and she will have some thermal curtain linings I can buy.