Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm not bothered who the person is, it's usually really interesting following the journeys. I think I've only seen one dull one so far.

Which one did you find dull?

lostinrates wrote: »

A simple lunch and stickybeak around the wreck? 18th at the Wreckstoration?

Pn? Lydia ( or too near beginning of term? ( though of course you both know the place) NDG? I'll try email details of how far if date is free for you so you can make a reasonable decision before committing.

On 18th Sept?

As of 14th August (most recent version of my diary emailed to me) I wasn't in court. I'll find out if that's still the case.

Spirit wrote: »

Tell them to leave him alone. Poor little mite.

Your skin is lovely and not in need of any rejuvenating at all.

Mine on the other hand...

I wanted the moisturising qualities more, though. Plus I'm a sucker for "goo".

I didn't let them waste any on Kermie - far too pricey for that. I reckon he'd have disliked it, too.

Nothing wrong with your skin, at all! You always look groomed, elegant and lovely. I look knackered and sick-ed on.

Loanranger

I watched the Julie Walters edition and half of the one tonight and found both to be full of jumping to conclusions that were not founded on the evidence presented and too much Oh My Goshing and WOWing.
PS I had no idea who the subject was til I read her name here tonight.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Which one did you find dull?

Dunno.... I'd have to look at a list of episodes and work through them to answer that.

I'll try doing that now.

I had a quick look - and realised it'd take me ages to trawl through and try to remember ..... but I did spot that next week's WDYTYA should be interesting. Brendan O’Carroll in a personal quest to solve a murderous family mystery.... although I've no idea who that is until I google him.

PasturesNew

Loanranger wrote: »

I watched the Julie Walters edition and half of the one tonight and found both to be full of jumping to conclusions that were not founded on the evidence presented and too much Oh My Goshing and WOWing.
PS I had no idea who the subject was til I read her name here tonight.

I think tonight she over-dramatised the use of the IoM to hold prisoners.... with her great-aunt (whose husband was also there with his father) calling it a Concentration Camp - that's a misleading term as it was a concentration of people they'd rounded up, but invokes images of death camps which it wasn't.

Yes, there's lots of jumping to conclusions in the programmes - and the programme makers rarely bother to straighten it out at all.... lots of airy fairy ideas about people's motivations etc based on the way we lead our lives today and not how things would be for people 100-200 years ago.

SingleSue

LydiaJ wrote: »

Maggie, please try not to be ashamed. The shame won't help you. Please watch some of those Hoarder Next Door programmes again and make a point of noticing how un-shaming they all are. Having a problem with clutter isn't a failure - it's something that happens to people who've been hurt, and you don't need to be ashamed of having been hurt.

Honestly, listen to me! I should do what I say myself. Here I am preaching to you about not letting the shame get to you when I myself am ashamed of the state I have allowed my house to descend into through being too burnt out to exert the effort required to deal with it.

I have a confession to make, I have hoarding tendancies and it reached a bit of a peak in my bedroom earlier this year, part of this was due to restrictions in my mobility and partly due to the depression I have battled over the years.

I can now proudly say that my bedroom is the clearest and least cluttered than it has ever been whilst living in this house (16 years) with only the bed, two bedside tables and the wardrobe in it. Ok the bedside tables are full with my books but there is no extra things dotted around.

The front room was also decluttered in a major way although James soon changed that when he came home from uni and it has been a constant battle ever since to keep it clear of crap.

I watch the hoarding programmes (American ones) to keep myself in check and also to pat myself on the back that mine never got that bad (although it wasn't great)

SingleSue

Nikkster wrote: »

I have a dead Dyson too. It came free with the house. I've not chucked it as I figure I can get a few £ for it on Ebay. Not quite figured out how that will happen without listing it though...

'I'll sell it on ebay' is up there with 'it'll probably come in handy one day' for me

My dead Dyson is in the dining room and the spare microwave is in the lean-to/ conserrvatory.

I got rid of my dead Dyson in the major declutter in June.

Loanranger

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think tonight she over-dramatised the use of the IoM to hold prisoners.... with her great-aunt (whose husband was also there with his dad) calling it a Concentration Camp - that's a misleading term as it was a concentration of people they'd rounded up, but invokes images of death camps which it wasn't.

Yes, there's lots of jumping to conclusions in the programmes - and the programme makers rarely bother to straighten it out at all.... lots of airy fairy ideas about people's motivations etc based on the way we lead our lives today and not how things would be for people 100-200 years ago.

I agree with everything you have mentioned here, PN. I definitely won't be watching any more of the episodes. I felt that the term 'concentration camp' evoked images that were far from the truth of what actually happened. I also felt that in the JW episode they focused on a cottage were a family had been evicted but her family had not been evicted by the so called wicked landlord so I was left puzzled as to the reason why that cottage was included.

SingleSue

Not the best of days today, youngest sank into a bit of a low mood this afternoon and wanted to be out of the house but isolated and not socialising, thankfully, he appears happier tonight though although still prone to shout out times (when he gets nervous/stressed/upset, the tourettes part of his ASD plays up and he bangs things, makes funny noises or shouts out...never swears though)

To then add to the stresses today, James gives me a call to say he has been threatened by a rough sort of customer at work, so bad one of his colleagues was about to call the police and it scared him so much (and he is not prone to being scared), that he was allowed to leave work early. The threat was of physical violence with the intention of putting him in hospital and all because James would not allow the man's child to queue jump.

Adding to this, just before I was due to go to speedway tonight, my lift calls and says they can't go, not well...so I was Billy no mates all night which is not much fun.

And the final insult to my sanity today...my blooming kidneys have decided to make themselves known, especially my left one. The left one never does it as it is the undamaged one, it's usually the right one which has been quite badly damaged over the years by infection and endometriosis.

Bleurgh.....

neverdespairgirl

Kidney infections are really, really horrible Sue <hugs>

Is youngest OK? Was he pleased about his GCSEs?

PasturesNew

Loanranger wrote: »

I definitely won't be watching any more of the episodes. .

I watch it to see/hear the sort of reasons that people were doing stuff. There's another series "Secrets of ..." that's been running. Last night was "Secrets of the Asylum" where they dragged some 'celebs' round to lunatic asylums their ancestors had been in - and went through their stories. One had a relative who was in there due to the madness from syphilis and they gave some interesting stats on that...pointing out that a lot of Victorians had the clap, that those with it could end up in an asylum if it went from being infected to being their killer.... and the "passing on" range was 2-3 years, although it had an incubation of 20 years.... and that babies were born with it, resulting in a lot of early deaths.

So, if I find out somebody in my tree's out of their tree *grins*, then I'll know that they might not just be your regular psychotic or bipolar ... but it could be due to the clap, then if I see they had babies born/died, it opens up the chances that they didn't just die like loads of babies did, but they, too, might have had the clap.

Etc.

Another (WDYTYA?) programme showed that a whole family in Suffolk were shipped up to Bradford - and it turned out that they were workhouse fodder and factory owners up country would be in contact with agricultural areas, where jobs were dropping off, to see if they could identify local families suitable to be shipped up north; a suitable family would consist of several members old enough to work in the mills (so about 14+).

So the shows just highlight possibilities it'd have taken a while to suss out by other means.