The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

GDB2222

Not my hat.

Dismantling the vacuum cleaner, removing the revolving brush, and reassembling took 5-10 minutes. That was necessary to get the hat out in one piece. Only after that was I told that the hat was too old and dusty to wear anyway.

Pyxis

gdb2222 wrote: »

not my hat.

Dismantling the vacuum cleaner, removing the revolving brush, and reassembling took 5-10 minutes. That was necessary to get the hat out in one piece. Only after that was i told that the hat was too old and dusty to wear anyway.

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vivatifosi

GDB2222 wrote: »

Not my hat.

Dismantling the vacuum cleaner, removing the revolving brush, and reassembling took 5-10 minutes. That was necessary to get the hat out in one piece. Only after that was I told that the hat was too old and dusty to wear anyway.

Can't read that without thinking of my favourite children's picture book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Not-Hat-Jon-Klassen/dp/1406353434

Pyxis

vivatifosi wrote: »

Can't read that without thinking of my favourite children's picture book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Not-Hat-Jon-Klassen/dp/1406353434

Available now:-
"This Is Not My Hat" by Jon Klassen Paperback £4.24
"We Found a Hat" by Jon Klassen Paperback £5.24
"I Want My Hat Back" by Jon Klassen Paperback £5.07

Coming soon:-
"My Hat Fetish and I" by Jon Klassen, delivered in plain wrapping.

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

Been a bit quiet here of late.

Busy and long day yesterday... Dad was ok but peed off at being back in hospital again and now suitably told off by mum for ignoring his symptoms and not ringing for advice sooner.

Sounds very stressful Sue. So glad to hear he's all right.

GDB2222 wrote: »

On a lighter note, I got this bizarre message from DW: "PS Please will you try to detach hat from hoover in our room?" Hat wound round beater = blue job.

I remember a time when I live in a household where the jobs came in more than one colour. It was a long time ago.

DD has very long hair, which sheds in the way that all hair does. Gradually more and more of it gets wound round the vacuum cleaner beater over time.

Using the vacuum cleaner to clean the house = normal job that can be delegated to the cleaner while I'm out at work.
Periodically attacking the vacuum to remove most of the wound hair from it = disgusting job that nobody should have to face unless paid a lot more than cleaners get, so I do it myself.

SingleSue

Dad is home. Confirmed acute pulmonary embolism and he is on treatment for the next 6 months with regular checks and scans to make sure things are ok.

We were quite surprised he was out so soon but in the corridor leading to the ward they have a big poster up saying about the new way the hospital is dealing with PE and how it takes a lot of the delay out of it due to getting all the relevant departments to cooperate and work together so that the correct information is received quickly and the right treatment started.

In dad's case, what used to take 3 or 4 days to get everything back, now takes less than 24 hours as a result and he will receive the same treatment at home as he would have in hospital but with a lot less laying about in a hospital bed with nothing going on.

Pyxis

Good news about your dad, Sue.
What does the treatment involve?

LydiaJ wrote: »

I remember a time when I live in a household where the jobs came in more than one colour. It was a long time ago.

DD has very long hair, which sheds in the way that all hair does. Gradually more and more of it gets wound round the vacuum cleaner beater over time.

Using the vacuum cleaner to clean the house = normal job that can be delegated to the cleaner while I'm out at work.
Periodically attacking the vacuum to remove most of the wound hair from it = disgusting job that nobody should have to face unless paid a lot more than cleaners get, so I do it myself.

Since I've grown my hair a bit, I've noticed that longer hair that is shed is very good for trapping dust on laminate floors.

chris_m

LydiaJ wrote: »

DD has very long hair, which sheds in the way that all hair does. Gradually more and more of it gets wound round the vacuum cleaner beater over time.

Using the vacuum cleaner to clean the house = normal job that can be delegated to the cleaner while I'm out at work.
Periodically attacking the vacuum to remove most of the wound hair from it = disgusting job that nobody should have to face unless paid a lot more than cleaners get, so I do it myself.

Sounds like a job for DD, TBH - it's her hair that's causing the problem :rotfl:

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Family history peeps. I've just been reading about the digitisation of the 1921 census. It is currently out to tender and due to be released in 2022.

After that, the census for 1931 was destroyed and no records for England or Wales survived, and there was no survey in 1941 due to the war, so we'll have to wait until the 1951 census is released in 2051/2 for the next release of big data. Not sure I'll be around then.

I won't be around either - but, between now and then more record sets will be digitised... who knows, you might even be able to look up when you joined your local library, aged 7 by then Remember those little tickets they used to take out and put into the card pockets in their system? And school entry records will give kids/parents' names ... then all the electoral rolls/council tax .... and driving licenses names/addresses/etc.

It doesn't take much of a SQL query to cross a whole data set to pull together "people who were also living at XYZ in this data set" to build individual snapshots that would catch most together.

Censuses are great, especially where people moved across country, or an orphan ended up living with a grandmother who'd since remarried/changed name and you could work it out back/forth ...but there are thousands of other data sets out there.

Even digitisation/access to all those old assizes records and b4st4dy records etc will be a help. So much wrapped up in there that's not immediately visible to people at the moment.

Another 20 years it'll be "information overload" on some people!

I'm gutted about the 1931 though - mum was born just before that and it'd have been nice to see her living with her granny in the list.

And/or, there could just be a law change making 1951 available in, say, 2031, or certainly a "just the basics" uncovering of name/address/household grouping without the additional information. A lot of the time you don't always need to know everything on the forms, just the names/ages/village is enough.

vivatifosi

There's an article in one if the family history magazines this month doing a thorough comparison between Ancestry and FMP.

It is interesting, and says about the war records for WW1 and how different the releases will be to WW2. The impression was that nowhere near the same level of info will be released as eg changes in the way we treat data protection mean that records about a soldier's medical health would likely not be released.

I have a meeting coming up with a librarian from the county archives. I must ask her about digitization projects and what's happening both where we are and across the country. Will report back if there's anything interesting.