Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

ivyleaf

Oh Doozergirl (((HUGS))). I hope it will turn up.

Pyxis

Ooh, Pastures! Her family might be interested in buying it, or at least the page with her poem on!
I know I would, if it were my granny/great-granny!

Doozergirl wrote: »

Thanks for helping. I need someone to help me check traps and checking the hoover for a while is a good plan. Didn't use a cubicle, have checked the bed and room thoroughly. We have hard floors so it's very easy to see, but I guess it could skid easily too. Have checked in skirting gaps!

I think MacDonalds is a potential culprit but I cannot imagine it would be there now. I was wiping hands and took my coat off. There was a woman sweeping up at the time and I can imagine the floor gets a good clean at some point overnight.

I'm so confused. I put the ring on this morning to see if it catches on my clothes easily and it does. Putting my hands in dress pockets scratches, taking my tights off would have caught but briefly. Perhaps I wouldn't have noticed, but I'm not entirely convinced that I wouldn't. I hate tights getting caught. Doozer can touch my leg with his builders hands and I'll tell him off! Putting them on would have been a very clear sign of a major issue, so going to the loo would have been an issue. I remember going at 7pm, may well have gone again after, so perhaps it is nearby.

Typing is helping the thought process. Sorry for being yawn-inducing!

I'd quite like to stop bursting into tears.

Keep posting! As you say, it helps to clarify the thoughts and give ideas, and that could give us ideas.

Did you do any gardening? Gardening gloves?
Did you put rubbish out?
Have you checked the kitchen bin, bathroom bin? Bedroom bin, if there is one?
Dishwasher?


Shower trap?

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

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Get Mr Doozer involved - tell him you want ALL the sink u-bends inspecting.

PasturesNew

Re the "poem" in the book. It's not earth shattering, she was 12.

I can't comprehend the purpose of the book, it seems people wrote in it occasionally, but regularly. Maybe it was the book owner's immediate school mates close to the end of each term ... it'll have been a boarding school no doubt. Dates actually go 1927 to 1937 though .... then a random entry in 1943. Although it could be a child of a school employee who lived on the premises and was allowed to mix with the other girls maybe.

It's hard to work out a reason for a school book to span so many years and yet the apparent age of the writers to not change. They were all 12-13. Unless it was a teacher's book, but who was picked to write in this book and why ... it's not a remarkable looking book, just a regular feint-lined book without margins. Unless it was a "detention piece" book where they had to sit and write something out because they were in detention.

There are no marks to indicate friendship/love when they signed their pieces, like you might do. No X, no smilies, no flourishing signatures. Just a plain name and often an age and usually the actual date. Most started on a new page, some didn't.

All very random.

PasturesNew

I did see a far more interesting book, I wish I'd bought it .... but I suspect the bloke wanted a bit more than I was intrigued enough to pay ... it was a little pocket notebook jotting down a woman's thoughts and events throughout the war, just a daily jotter... it included birthdays, presents given/received and other day-to-day writings, in tiny script. It was only about 4" x 6".

I saw it and thought I could work out who she was, over time, given the names and places listed.

I suspect another of the writers in the Book of Random Writings is the wife of this man. A decorated war hero, as you'd expect .... and ending up an MBE, as they do when you go to a posh school

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hibbert_(British_Army_officer)

They bought Trebah Gardens, Cornwall.

Pyxis

I've one more thing to say about the printer ink price hike saga, and then I'll shut up about it forever.




(Possibly ).



I did email Sainsbury's, and they said they'd look into it. They came back to me to say that between January and April this year, the price had varied from £47 to £70.
The reason they gave was that they were told what to charge by the manufacturer.

Yeah, right.

I wasn't at all impressed by that explanation. It just confirms my suspicions that it's all one big conspiratorial con trick.

zagubov

Apart from blacking out the windows and searching the carpet in every room with a torch, I'd suggest checking the hem of every garment in case a pocket had a hole big enough that it could fall into the lining. The back of every sofa/chair?

Pyxis

Pastures, out of interest, what were the four words in Greek?

Doozergirl

Lights off with a torch is a good idea!

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Pastures, out of interest, what were the four words in Greek?

Dunno... the Coroner translated them. To see if I could find out I'd need full/paid access to online newspapers. I'm skirting around on freebies

The deceased was a lecturer in Greek and Latin. The Coroner said
".... there followed four words Greek which he could not interpret, but had been told they mean roughly "Children, be kindly disposed to your father," or '"Think kindly of your father" or "Have kind remembrances".

He left over £38,000 in 1932, so wasn't short of a bob or two! Also, he'd been off work for a year after a nervous breakdown and had just been on holiday with his wife/kids for the last 7 weeks. That was the last time she saw him. He left and she didn't know where he'd gone. Friday left home .... booked into a hotel, wrote the note, left the note in the hotel on Tuesday, left the hotel and ended up under a train. Widow and 3 daughters aged 9-12.