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Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie
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vivatifosi wrote: »Hi Jelly,
A Ripper book came into the library today and I did wonder whether you had read it. It is this one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jack-Ripper-Stewart-P-Evans/dp/075093770X
It's very unusual to see a book on JTR that doesn't have reviews on Amazon, so I have no idea if it is any good.
Hi Viva,
that is actualy the book I nearly picked up instead of the Paul Roland one.
I have it, but haven't yet read it.
The authors are generally held in high regard by students of the ripper. This book in particular focuses on the vast amount of correspondence recieved by the police & associated parties in 1888 onwards.
The first letter with the nom de plume Jack the ripper wasn't released until after the murders of polly nicholls & annie chapman. (a martha tabram was murdered a couple of weeks prior to these 2. Whether tabram was the first ripper victim or not is debateable). Jack the Ripper signed the Dear Boss letter, a couple of days prior to a postcard also having the name on it. Both were written in red ink, and were sent around the time of the double event. This is where the name jack the ripper came from.
There is a lot of debate as to whether these letters were sent by the killer. It is believed by many that they were actually sent by a journalist. However the name stuck.
Literally hundreds of letters were recieved by the police - confessions, tip offs, suggestions as to how to catch the murderer, and so on. Then there was the Lusk/from Hell letter which had a kidney (allegedly taken from Eddowes in the parcel). Whether it was Eddowes kidney or not is again a point debated.It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
Oh, its been a glum weather day.
but the sky now, here, is the most amazing mauve.
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lostinrates wrote: »Oh, its been a glum weather day.
but the sky now, here, is the most amazing mauve.
Talking of the sky, did anyone watch this programme last night?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wnvpf
I found it very interesting. There will be plenty more to learn in part 2 tonight & part 3 tomorrow!:)It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »Talking of the sky, did anyone watch this programme last night?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wnvpf
I found it very interesting. There will be plenty more to learn in part 2 tonight & part 3 tomorrow!:)
I couldn't get the solar eclipse this morning.They are my favorite.
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All these crime books. If you can't beat them join them.
I read this http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/17/salati-case-tobias-jones the night before last. I met the author through an MSEer as it happens, and I knew the author's father. It was ok, but its not my sort of reading matter, so for those who is it might have been better than ok. To be honest I thought it was a bit cliched and ...no, I'll leave any review there I think.You never know who you'll run into again, or whether they care what you think... I got it for free the other day with an armful of other books...I got to the desk and instead of charging £1 each they said £3 for the lot,and take a piece of fiction if you want...this was on the top and the name leapt out so.....
And I picked this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Loves-Executioner-Psychotherapy-Penguin-Psychology/dp/0140128468 upt'other day for 99p. Its also not something I'd normally buy but what the dickens. I was going to read it in the bath today, but forgot to take it upstairs. I read an unwins seed catalogue instead. Thrice over.0 -
Had another bad day.... no notifications my site was 'down', just trusted it, looked at my earnings at about 5.30 and it said £2. Not good. Site had some page up saying "back shortly". Had to log into the server admin panel to effectively reboot it. That's twice in the past month it's done that now0
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lostinrates wrote: »unwins
Edit: Just googled it, no longer there. Sold for housing.0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »Talking of the sky, did anyone watch this programme last night?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wnvpf
I found it very interesting. There will be plenty more to learn in part 2 tonight & part 3 tomorrow!:)
I was interested, till I saw it had that man Ross in it. DW has banned him and, honestly, I'd rather have Janet Street Porter if it was a one-or-the-other choice.
We videoed the last (almost) total eclipse in 1999 from our back garden and we linked-up with the BBC coverage from Cornwall at the same time. We had a really old video camera, so the dire warnings they issued about pointing them at the Sun were ignored, but as there was a thin cloud or two blowing across, it survived.
Misskool, you should have been in Bury St Edmunds this morning:
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/bury_st_edmunds_solar_eclipse_captured_on_camera_1_7662020 -
An eventful day.....just before I went to bed last night, someone advertised a single divan bed on Freecycle and although this is not the first I have seen, I have always lost out as they seem to be amazingly popular.
This time though, we got it!
So, with very little notice, we had to get middle son's existing divan out of the room, down the stairs and outside....sounds easy but between my dodgy back and eldest's dislocating shoulders and hips, it was great fun indeed.
Anyway, bodge and son set off to collect said divan bed armed with bungee straps and rope, he manhandled it out of the persons house and we inched it into the boot of the car (thank god for estate cars!) and slowly made our way home again.
This time, it was fun in reverse getting the blooming thing upstairs, round the small top of the stairs and into the bedroom but we managed it.
Middle son is so chuffed, his old bed had been bolstered up by oodles of teddies and a couple of boxes of nappies as he had broken the base, this one is an expensive make AND has a memory foam mattress (which cost the previous owner £100!)
After that, it was round to the chemist to pick up my dad's prescription as mum is ill with a flu type illness and cannot drive him, drop eldest off at his friends house, get some shopping done and then drop the medication down at my parents.
All the boys are back to school tomorrow and I cannot wait to do a proper tidy up, it is impossible to do a real back to basics spring clean type tidy up while they are here (they get stressed by things moving around them all the time) and after two weeks plus of school holidays, boy does it need it.
I'll have to be careful whilst doing it though as I am up at the hospital on Thursday morning seeing the Rheumi people....not looking forward to that one.
Youngest is much better today and appears to be over the worse, his peak flows are now in the more normal range although still slightly lower than his normal but he is in the safe zone.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »Surely in the modern day, information is one of the biggest assets a person or organisation can have?
A "thing to sell" doesn't have to be a tangiable thing...;)
I guess a large part of it is turning what you do into a business. For example, it’s not impossible to sell Amazon products, but it is largely a job, not a business. With effort you can put something into the top ten places in Google, and write text that will convert reasonably well.
Doing that can make an income and a very good one... super affiliates can make tens of thousands a month.
The problem is, although it is profitable, this is not a business.
It all depends on personal skills.
To really have a business, you need something like... well, McDonalds... even if a more skilful business, you need to have procedures and so on, so that you can hire people and outsource work.
People go on about passive income, but I think the real secret to wealth is not passive income, it is making a business. To a large extent, a business may be completely non-passive, but just the ability to hire people gives you the ability to leverage your time.
That’s the key... product is part of it, but the product doesn’t need to be tangible... but it does need to be a scaleable business.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0
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