Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

kabayiri

Generali wrote: »

I have lovely (seriously) memories from the late 70s/early 80s of sitting in a slightly leaky, rusted Fiat 128 eating picnics as the rain fell over the Goyt Valley reservoir while listening to Radio 4 with Generala (my sister) and mom and pop Generali.
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My neck of the woods

I have worky things to do, but the hills are shouting at me to go out for a nice run whilst it is sunny and fresh.

We have moved on from slightly leaky, rusted Fiat 128s though.

We now have very leaky, very rusty rolling stock running across the high peak masquerading as a viable train service.

Generali

kabayiri wrote: »

My neck of the woods

It's a lovely part of the world; beautiful.

kabayiri wrote: »

We now have very leaky, very rusty rolling stock running across the high peak masquerading as a viable train service.

It's grim up north.

kabayiri

Generali wrote: »

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It's grim up north.

On a day when Paul Daniels has sadly passed away, a segway.

Up North we manage to pull a rabbit out of the hat

(and then we go and ruin it , by eating said rabbit)

GDB2222

bugslet wrote: »

I have absolutely no idea why he became an ex:rotfl:





Only if you get tattoos as well, GDB.

DW says that, as the little dog hoovers up any food she finds, we should actually call her Dyson.

Spirit_2

Wheezy wrote: »

Mrs Wheezy (no doggy back then)

Has Wheezy Westie been bursting with pride this week following the breeds triumph at Crufts?

The winner did look adorable.

Wheezy_2

Spirit wrote: »

Has Wheezy Westie been bursting with pride this week following the breeds triumph at Crufts?

The winner did look adorable.

Wheezy westie is more interested in the fly-ball and agility competitions. :rotfl:

The winner did look adorable indeed.

oldandhappy

We knew when the next door property had to be sold there would be a lot..as in huge amount of changes would be made but never in a million years could we imagine the almost re build of the property would take place over several years as it happened and still when we left in Dec 2014 not nearly completed.. of course that meant almost constant noise etc. I was ok for the first year but the demands then really where too much to be able to tolerate....my temper appeared again after being asleep for many years, lucky in some ways the neighbour the other side was no longer living in the property only visiting daily although he was upset by the changes he was a non combat person and now just hates the place as a result... nobody else around was affected by the noise but certainly affected by the prison like fences that went up very quickly...private to the extreme in a rural open environment. I could right a book on the subject of how neighbours can destroy your world with there building projects. We did love our Bexhill on Sea home but changes all around forced us to seriously think about for a move away from what we once had...even our hot tub was now overlooked because of there awful plans and our fence was 6 foot high...figure!!!! that was surely a step too far. At least it pushed us into making a move we really wanted but did not quite have the courage for many a year. regards Dianne

PasturesNew

At 8pm, BBC2, next episode of the mini series Secret History of my Family. Where they take some people from the past and find all their living descendants.

http://www.tvguide.co.uk/detail/2321326/115918142/the-secret-history-of-my-family

The Manleys & the Hunts

The documentary charting social history by exploring different family trees continues with the story of Lavinia and Florence, two Victorian women from opposite ends of the social scale who were brought together by domestic violence.

One was desperate to feed her six children in 1880s London, the other came from a lavish county home and ventured into the slum to help a fellow mother.

The film tells the saga of a woman from the workhouse whose descendant ended up at Eton and a family from the landed gentry who threw off the burden of their past

Had a further look, to get the "story", woman with 6 kids and a husband who beat her was 'helped' by a do-gooder/charity ... until she had one beating too many and left her husband. The charity didn't help people like her and she went into the workhouse.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/03/02/how-the-bbcs-secret-history-of-my-family-reveals-the-secrets-of/

It is May 1887. Florence Hunt, a kindly upper-class charity worker, ventures out of her well-to-do west London neighbourhood to visit her client, Lavinia Manley, in the slums of Fulham - a far cry from the yummy mummy enclave of today, and a whole world away from her usual social orbit.

Florence came from from a grand lineage; she and her husband owned a 300-acre Elizabethan estate called Boreatton in Shropshire, filled with servants, grand balls and country sports.

But when her husband died, she came to the capital and turned to charity work, for the Hammersmith Charity Organisation Committee. Like other “lady visitors” of the time, she’d gone out into the London underworld to try to lift the poor from misery.

Lavinia, meanwhile, had nothing, besides a jobless husband who beat her and six children she couldn’t afford to feed. Could Florence and her charity help? Only up to a point.

When the violence became so bad that Lavinia walked out on her husband – thus becoming that most feared and despised creature of Victorian England: a single mother – Florence withdrew her financial support. Lavinia and two of her children were forced to enter the workhouse.

So where have the Manleys and the Hunts ended up, nearly a century and a half later?

For bugslet ... there's a female lorry driver in the descendants.

oldandhappy

I wish I could find more about our Mary Ann Aumonier wife of William Woollams famous elite wallpaper maker in London which would be husbands 4th grandfather
she is not on the Huguenot (French Protestant) church list like the others in her family of French people that where forced to leave France or be murdered which they where in there thousands by the obsessive Catholic regime at the time..17th Century and by 1901 all religion was abolished and no longer to this day is taught in local schools only private ones. directed to Pasturesnew....regards Dianne

PasturesNew

oldandhappy wrote: »

I wish I could find more about our Mary Ann Aumonier wife of William Woollams famous elite wallpaper maker in London which would be husbands 4th grandfather
she is not on the Huguenot (French Protestant) church list like the others in her family of French people that where forced to leave France or be murdered which they where in there thousands by the obsessive Catholic regime at the time..17th Century and by 1901 all religion was abolished and no longer to this day is taught in local schools only private ones. directed to Pasturesnew....regards Dianne

At least two episodes of Who Do You Think you Are covered some Huguenot lines, going through some of the records they used/had access to dig out the ancestors of (rich/famous) people who actually have the money to have done it all for themselves if they were THAT interested

The more you have, the more is given to you for free