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

Jackmydad

Pyxis wrote: »

Just done some googling, and apparently the West Angles were the Mercians, and the North Angles were the Northumbrians.

There were also Middle Angles and South Angles.

I know this map is stretchy, so I'll delete it in a minute.

I don't think anything of them were Right Angles, though. Neither did their houses have quadrangles.

I'll bet their leaders were often obtuse angles though.
Thanks Pyxis, I'd thought no more about it than as a joke.
I was thinking about the excellent (I think) "The Last Kingdom" last night, it's set 300 years or so later than that map, which had changed somewhat by then.
Anyway I was wondering when S3 would be on.
Looks like it'll be on Netflix.
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2018-08-24/the-last-kingdom-season-3-netflix/

zagubov

Pyxis wrote: »

The Victorian/Edwardian email system!

Indeed. This article seems to predict online shopping!

ivyleaf

zagubov wrote: »

Was reading a while back about how in the 19th century you could be on the coast and send a postcard home to London in the morning to get relatives to meet you at your destination by lunchtime the same day. Some places used to have up to fourteen collections a day.

Wonder how many deliveries they must have had in those days.

I have my Nan's best friend's postcard album from the very early years of the 20th century. Many of the cards were sent to her as a girl at boarding school in London, but one, which I think must have been passed on to her by a family friend, says:

"Bill,
Just you come round and see your Mother this evening."

Sounds as if Bill was in Mother's bad books

One of the cards sent to her at school by her sister during the First World War says "Glad you weren't frightened of the Zepps."

*Sigh* OH is supposed to be going to the fish and chip shop, we've not had "proper fish and chips" for ages, but he has got involved with his new Google Chrome Notebook which arrived today.
ETA He's gone now.

Pyxis

Jackmydad wrote: »

I'll bet their leaders were often obtuse angles though.
Thanks Pyxis, I'd thought no more about it than as a joke.
I was thinking about the excellent (I think) "The Last Kingdom" last night, it's set 300 years or so later than that map, which had changed somewhat by then.
Anyway I was wondering when S3 would be on.
Looks like it'll be on Netflix.
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2018-08-24/the-last-kingdom-season-3-netflix/

I love that series!
Really looking forward to seeing more of it. On Freeview, though.

ivyleaf wrote: »

I have my Nan's best friend's postcard album from the very early years of the 20th century. Many of the cards were sent to her as a girl at boarding school in London, but one, which I think must have been passed on to her by a family friend, says:

"Bill,
Just you come round and see your Mother this evening."

Sounds as if Bill was in Mother's bad books

One of the cards sent to her at school by her sister during the First World War says "Glad you weren't frightened of the Zepps."

*Sigh* OH is supposed to be going to the fish and chip shop, we've not had "proper fish and chips" for ages, but he has got involved with his new Google Chrome Notebook which arrived today.
ETA He's gone now.

You see how interesting that ephemera is? :T When people say they won't keep things like that from these days, it's such a shame, because three or four generations down the line, people will find even 'mundane' little postcards like that absolutely fascinating!

What you have to guard against is minimalist offspring chucking it all out after you pop your clogs!

My hoarding is totally justified!





Edit......... pickled gherkin with mine, please!

Jackmydad

Stuff that you see on "Antiques Roadshow" especially ephemera.
"It was chucked out"
Makes me sad it does.

Have you read the books Pyxis?
Well worth it.
And the grail quest ones as well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grail_Quest

Pyxis

zagubov wrote: »

Indeed. This article seems to predict online shopping!

And possibly even delivery by drone! :rotfl: :eek:

Some of it was spot on, even if a little after 1970.


He was a bit off mark about the no crime thing, though, and the peace abounding, bit.

Also, I think Pastures might dispute the bit about all the lovely, well-mannered children! :rotfl:

Pyxis

Jackmydad wrote: »

Stuff that you see on "Antiques Roadshow" especially ephemera.
"It was chucked out"
Makes me sad it does.

Have you read the books Pyxis?
Well worth it.
And the grail quest ones as well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grail_Quest

No I haven't! You're right, I should!

And on Flog It, they might have a lovely poignant heirloom to sell, been in their family for two or three generations, and they always say that none of their children/grandchildren want it.

Or, they say, the thing is only one thing, but they have two children, so they'd rather sell it and split the money between them. Aaaaaaaaaaaargh!

GDB2222

Jackmydad wrote: »

I always wondered where West Anglia was. . .;)

It's called Wales, and they get all East Anglia's surplus rain.

Jackmydad

Pyxis wrote: »

No I haven't! You're right, I should!

And on Flog It, they might have a lovely poignant heirloom to sell, been in their family for two or three generations, and they always say that none of their children/grandchildren want it.

Or, they say, the thing is only one thing, but they have two children, so they'd rather sell it and split the money between them. Aaaaaaaaaaaargh!

Read them in the right order if you do!
There's a new one out in October. Book 11 "War of the Wolf"

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

You see how interesting that ephemera is? :T When people say they won't keep things like that from these days, it's such a shame, because three or four generations down the line, people will find even 'mundane' little postcards like that absolutely fascinating!

It's also amazing what was considered acceptable subject matter for the picture side - I have one which depicts the wreckage from a train crash at Salisbury in 1906, which killed 28 people. The Edwardians certainly didn't just stick to "chocolate box" pictures.