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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: Jackiemh on Sunday 01 May 22 23:16 BST (UK)
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It is May already!
Where are the reminders about the 2022 Mass Observation Day?
Are there any changes to contend with?
Jackie
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Here at least is the promotion from MO for this year:
http://www.massobs.org.uk/write-for-us/12th-may
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This is a special year too as it is the 85th anniversary of the Mass Observation movement.
I was going to post about the 12th May Diary Day, but you have saved me a job.
I plan to join in again with this event this year as I have for the last several years.
If anyone is interested, please take note this is just a one day event and different to applying to be an ongoing Mass Observation diarist.
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Thanks for the reminder. I usually submit my account.
TY
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I know that regular participants would not need reminding but I was hoping to spark a bit of interest in others.
So, flex your fingers and jump in.
Jackie
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I would if I knew what it was —- it has passed me by !
Viktoria.
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I would if I knew what it was —- it has passed me by !
Viktoria.
Same here - is it something to do with RC Churches?
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I would if I knew what it was
It’s explained in the link in reply #1
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Got it,Thanks.
Viktoria
There is another Special Day in May, 24 th, to be precise .
I shall observe that.
Viktoria.
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Just submitted my diary for 12/5/2022 after reading it through twice for errors.
Jackie
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My pc got its knickers in a twist last evening, but as soon as possible my completed effort will be following yours, Jackiemh. It'd feel odd not to be sending it in.
TY
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How quickly the year passes and how much change there has been yet again..
Like all past years I’ll be submitting mine when I’ve given it the final once over.
I’d love to read some from the past few years … I know you can listen to sections of them on the website which I find fascinating.
I wonder what next year will hold for us all…
Caroline
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- That's what I'm afraid of: what the coming year holds....
TY
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I know!
Who would have thought even a couple of years ago what we have experienced in that time….
Caroline
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Gosh, thanks for the reminder.
That passed me by entirely.... hardly surprising in the circs!
Will try and complete it today, while I can remember, although the way my typing has been affected it will probably take me hours!! :P
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I am definitely planning to do this too. Too tired today though and probably won't get time until Sunday at least. I think I will still remember things by then. ;)
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I made some notes last night ready to write it up. At least I have a W.I. meeting to include this year.
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Finally submitted my diary and a first for me! Not the diary but the fact that I typed it on my I pad in ‘pages’ than forwarded it via email… feel quite chuffed with that and I’ve had an automated response from them so I know it’s got there safely.
Now to get on with other jobs of the day… like cleaning the house… not sure I should be doing it having had cataract op Tuesday last week but hey ho can’t leave it for ever!
Gardening apparently a no no until after I’ve been back for my 4 wk check with the opticians….
All the best to everyone else in submitting their entries. I’ve listened to some of the extracts they put together and found them fascinating.
Caroline
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Now to get on with other jobs of the day… like cleaning the house… not sure I should be doing it having had cataract op Tuesday last week but hey ho can’t leave it for ever!
Gardening apparently a no no until after I’ve been back for my 4 wk check with the opticians….
Aren't housework and gardening in the same category of activities? Someone who didn't like gardening described it as outdoor housework.
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Never thought if it that way LM! Unlike housework I like being in the garden!
Raining today so no outside housework today 😂😂.
Caroline
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I have also got round to having written and emailed my diary today. I have just received email back confirming it has been received.
I would encourage people to participate. One day, perhaps, a family descendant might come looking for you (as we search for ancestors now) and these diaries might be some of the dropped pebbles that will lead them to find you.
I would have loved it, if there was a written day in the life of a Great Grandmother recording what she did and how she might have felt about personal things and things going on in the world.
I cannot say I am particularly enamoured of either indoor or outdoor housework, although come what may it has to be done. :P ;)
I'm confused Caroline, isn't it Maiden Stone not LM you are replying to in last post?
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I have just emailed my diary, I wasn't going to do one this year as the day was extremely boring. Like so many others the last twelve months have been sad at times,
we had to say goodbye to the last two of our families wartime generation, they both were in their 90's and were so tired.
We also have a new member of the family, the little fella in my avatar, he decided to come and live with us. We think he'd probably been thrown out. He is most definitely in charge and all the family are besotted with him.
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I am willing to bet your day was TEDIOUS Bearnan, not boring.
It's all according to your perception.
Well done for finding something to write about. :D
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Either way mowsehowse I was cheered up in the evening when my daughter told me she'd got us tickets for the Commonwealth Games - Mens hockey bronze medal match on her birthday. :)
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You’re absolutely right RTL… and I thought having my cataract done would improve my eyesight…. Clearly not in this instance 😂😂😂.
No days are boring they’re just different and one persons boring is another’s exciting!
How lovely Bearnan to be given tickets for the commonwealth games.
Caroline
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Brilliant.
It's always good to have something to look forward to. :D
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Had a good busy day, finished planting and a tidy up - only the garden,the house looks as if vandals have been in!
Started sunny but brisk and is softly raining now.
Tired now but that good tiredness, not the bored tiredness.
Read the meters today, my monthly payments by direct debit have gone up as agreed ,I was not willing to go the whole hog and increase to £250 per month from £90 ,if a shortfall It will be adjusted by a one off payment at the year end , so I increased to £150 , we will see.
I intend to get a small wall mounted water heater in the kitchen ,my sink is so far from the boiler ,yards and yards of water already in the pipe needs to be run off before it runs hot ,fill the bowl, rinse , then the the full length of the pipe is left full of hot water going cold!
The bathroom is directly over the boiler so hot water almost instantly there.
You only heat what you need with a simple wall mounted heater.
Ninety percent of the time I am washing up for only one .
It might seem a retrograde step ,but it will be economical .
I like scalding hot water for washing up and rinsing.
Neighbour has had another small fall ,I heard a bump yesterday at about six in the morning.
It sounded like a car door being slammed.But I had been asleep ,normally if she is up I hear the cistern re- filling ,but not this time,all was silent so I nodded off again for a while.
She seems quite shaken this time ,is in bed , her daughter has been coming and going all day. She lives close by but drives for haste.
Well a nice bath to minimise aches and pains then bed.
I bought a book of Maths and Arithmetic tests ,English and Intelligence tests.
For admittance to Grammar School ,a bit like the Eleven Plus .
I am doing O.K .
But have forgotten what a Cwt was , a Quarter ,Ton too, so not so good on those sums but the others OK.
Good fun.
Well another cuppa , then Antiques Road Show, bath and perhaps an early night but Morse is on late, he is so like my OH.was.
Those blue eyes and white hair! ;)
Viktoria.
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CWT was a hundredweight I think??
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Viktoria - I have a similar problem with a sink too far from the boiler - in Summer I catch the spare water for the garden! I have wondered about a small water heater, but I think the electricity might be a problem. (But then I always see the problems. ::))
I have just sent my diary in, and reading through the previous ones I have discovered that I always seem to plant out my tomatoes in the green house near this date, and also that there has been at least one other year when I am still hanging on to my winter duvet in mid-May.
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Funny aren't we.
The light mornings always have me creeping out of the bedroom at silly o'clock apparently.
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Top of The Hill, yes that occurred to me ,but if the heater is not actually plumbed in ,but manually filled( not quite as basic as first appears) I have two options.
Can still use the tap with water from the boiler or the heater with water coming straight from that.
I would prefer to wash up after each meal but breakfast us literally a dish,spoon .beaker and spoon
Occasionally a knife plate and beaker if I have toast instead of cereal.
Then the breadboard needs washing .
Lunch is usually a sandwich ,and a cup of tea ,so mot much there.
Evening meal is pots and pans etc and a hob clean and often my little Sage oven .Any prep boards etc.So the little water heater ought to be an
economy .
I use the little Sage oven instead of the big 60 cm oven .
Mind you if I wasn’t so forgetful and switched lights off etc etc , and played my CD’s less loudly !
Less often !
It is so irksome to run so much water and it still not be scalding hot.
I wear rubber gloves so I can use really hot water.
Must contact my friendly tame plumber
Viktoria.
P.S. Just watching The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebration ,wonderful and H.M seemed to really enjoy it all .What horsemanship !
We do do these things so well
Omid Djalili has just thanked HM for choosing to attend tonight’s occasion over The State Opening of Parliament !
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Viktoria.
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