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

silvercar

I bought these

I'm hoping they will help; haven't tried them yet.

Don't know why the image is from ebay, I bought in Tesco. Slim size dehumidifiers, last for 30 days.

Pyxis

I did try dehumidifier pads a couple of years ago, but they didn't help. They were large, expensive ones, too.

PasturesNew

Wide Awake Club.

Had an "off kilter" day when everything was out of sync mentally ... and I've not been able to get to sleep all night. Been watching online telly ...
just about to watch the 3rd part in this series about WW1.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p022wq5k/our-world-war-1-the-first-day

I doubt I'll sleep now .... should have watched Live at the Apollo ... that made me nod off the other night

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Wide Awake Club.

Had an "off kilter" day when everything was out of sync mentally ... and I've not been able to get to sleep all night. Been watching online telly ...
just about to watch the 3rd part in this series about WW1.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p022wq5k/our-world-war-1-the-first-day

I doubt I'll sleep now .... should have watched Live at the Apollo ... that made me nod off the other night

I've been recording a few Radio 4 programmes on the TV, so that if I can't sleep, I turn to one of those, set the TV off-timer, and then I don't have to keep looking at the screen and can take my glasses off.
I usually do fall asleep then.

Progs like: The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fly, Quote Unquote, Thought Cages, The Now Show, and even progs like Any Questions/Any Answers.

I agree that some of the BBC history documentaries are good, too, as they are often not dependent on someone seeing the accompanying pictures, as it's all in the commentary.

Some of the ones I utilise for this purpose have been played several times, starting from where I must have fallen asleep the last time!

GDB2222

In case it helps, PN, I find it often helps me sleep to count backwards in sevens. It's more helpful than counting forwards, possibly because it requires more concentration.

I'm hoping to get back to sleep soon.

Edit: It worked!

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

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Before the Centenary, War stuff was dull, dull, dull. Any programmes focussed solely on the manly aspects of troops and regiments and battles...

The recent programmes have been excellent in easily explaining what the War was about, why, who, when, where, without being dull, dull, dull.

Watch them all and you build up an understanding of it... but no single programme explains it all.

Having just watched these 3 programmes in my previous link - they were an unexpected find and really good!

I liked the "They Shall not Grow Old" colorized footage with real voices laid over, by Peter Jackson... watched that 4x.

I've got/kept a little list of programmes I've watched, and a couple to watch.

There are still dull dull dull farquers out there - just discovered a really peculiar and dull man, David Reynolds. "Long Shadow", 3 episodes. I keep trying to watch the programmes as the content is of interest, but he's too bizarre to watch... he's "acting" some of his poignant lines and just looks like an annoying tw4t

Dan Snow's programmes were a bit !!!!!! too.... wrong bloke for that programme entirely. "WW1's Secret Shame: Shell Shock"

Jeremy Paxman was too annoying too. "Great Britain's War" 3 episodes.

I think a lot of these "middle class twerps whose families/connections got them onto the telly" simply aren't talented enough to take on this type of programming.... berks, the lot of them

Michael Portillo did a good one, Railways of the Great War - four episodes. I spotted that when I went to the dentist and it was on in the waiting room, looked it up as the content was interesting to me and found a set of four episodes. It explained why, when and how the British started using trains.... and why they hadn't beforehand ... and why this War was different so trains were needed.

So, learnt lots of bits and aspects that, together, means that, 100 years after it ended, I am starting "to get" the War

ivyleaf

GDB2222 wrote: »

In case it helps, PN, I find it often helps me sleep to count backwards in sevens. It's more helpful than counting forwards, possibly because it requires more concentration.

I'm hoping to get back to sleep soon.

Edit: It worked!

A neurologist asked me to do this when I was having cognitive problems (they turned out to be "just" due to the M.E.). To count backwards in sevens from 100.
I started confidently enough with "93", but it got a bit slower after that I remember saying to him "I know I have to take another 3 off to get to 90, but I can't work out what happens after that!"
I somehow managed it in the end. Thankfully he didn't need me to count all the way down to single figures
He referred me for Neuropsychometry tests, but I had to wait about 4 months and was starting to get a bit better by then.

michaels

Home Alone just starting - pop quiz - wake up and find your family have disappeared - good or bad?

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

Home Alone just starting - pop quiz - wake up and find your family have disappeared - good or bad?

Sounds like that very weird series "The Leftovers".

Actually, I think there was a scifi story years ago about all the males vanishing, leaving females behind, while the males experienced all the females disappearing leaving only the males.

I recall years ago one of my classmates got on so badly with his parents that when he grudgingly came home from uni for the summer, he found they'd gone and left no forwarding address.

hjd

GDB2222 wrote: »

In case it helps, PN, I find it often helps me sleep to count backwards in sevens. It's more helpful than counting forwards, possibly because it requires more concentration.

I'm hoping to get back to sleep soon.

Edit: It worked!

Can I just point out that I have tried this starting at 1000 and was still awake when I had finished (before getting into negative numbers of course).
Something different required, I think..