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Learning From Past Mistakes

Learning From Past Mistakes

My information has been relayed as gossip etc for decades. I have been listening  to Camilla Tominey today who is always respectful. However I believe this is another case of trying to shut somebody down.

Having experienced mass pile-ons al few times myself. my response would be,

“What was he supposed to do?”

His mother was KILLED by media attention. He sees his wife being subjected to the same behaviour and he acts to protect  her.

Watch “Lady Diana – Candle in the wind (Goodbye Englands rose) – Elton John – Lyrics in text” on YouTube

This is a husband’s god-given role.

Watch “Royal wedding: Harry and Meghan exchange vows” on YouTube

The problem is with those who had not insisted the media back off. You especially do not attack a pregnant woman. The stress could have been dangerous for both her and the child.

I mean, criticising her for holding her pregnant belly for goodness sake!

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Maybe Prince  Harry’s book is not a literary masterpiece but it is his story and should be respected as such.

If there is one thing I understand it is finding yourself rapidly pregnant a long way from home. among people totally obsessed with your husband. In my case add misogyny to the mix!! FYI Y’all nearly killed me and my daughter. All the people who were suddenly so protective of her at school made me sick. You weren’t interested in protecting her in a life or death situation! You came within a hair’s breadth of killing us both!

Sarcasm Ahead!

Where was the united front when Harry and Meghan needed it? I hope I haven’t taken that remark out of context! He did what he swore in front of the whole world to do. HE PROTECTED HIS WIFE!

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Remember This!

People have the memories of Dory from Finding Nemo as far as I’m concerned. To refresh a few memories please visit my page on Princess Diana.

Whilst I am making myself unpopular you may as well know I believe Harry was right to get his wife away from a totally toxic situation!

Giphy

Charm in a person is not a good sign as I have learned to my cost.

Watch “Meghan Markle on Getting Nostalgic Watching ‘Magic School Bus’ with Archie and Hosting Her Podcast” on YouTube


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My Quirky Ancestor who Joined up Accidentally: 2023 Update

Visiting my Grandmother was a lovely experience for me.. I am so glad I spent so much time with her and had listened to her stories.

She had been an attractive and cheeky redhead, whose fiery temperament at the time had led her into a few misadventures(including the time she had left her brother and his friends up a tree, when she had been posted as a lookout, whilst they had helped themselves to apples(scrumping)).

She had led an interesting life and I loved to learn her perspective on the historical periods, through which she had lived.

My Grandmother recalled the horrors of WW1, including having had a. brother who was gassed at the Somme however she could also recount some of her more light-hearted memories from the period.

Recently I was recalling for my children how she had accidentally joined up in WW1. She was looking for work and when she saw an opportunity to gain employment as a waitress, she had taken it.

She later discovered she was actually working for the military. I never learned more about her time as a waitress for the air force of the time. (My Grandfather had been in the Royal Flying Corps) yet she had never mentioned their paths crossing then. I believe Granddad had discovered her working behind the counter in Woolworths.

She had also worked as a waitress during her time there. She used to recount with pride how she had once served The Mr F.W. Woolworth. (Frank Winfield Woolworth).

I also worked at Woolworth’s/ Woollies at one stage.it was my first real job. I was fifteen. I must have met some annoying people but on the whole I enjoyed it,

I was earning an actual wage.

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BBC NEWS JULY 2ND 1978

I remember being terrified when I was asked to keep guard over the expensive items. I had patrolled up and down the aisle like an over zealous policeman.

I see he died in 1919, so my grandmother would have likely been a teenager at the time.

Source: Wikipedia.

I believe he had been over from America. Much to her delight, he had given her a gold sovereign as a tip, which she had secretly stashed away, only to have to give it to her mother – She was one of eight children and every day was a struggle for survival for the family.

It is amazing to me(and also a little scary) the idea that anybody could accidentally find themselves doing military service. Did she sign something?, though I doubt my Grandmother was the only one who found her way into the military this way.

My grandmother came from a family of eight children. They were fun and had a great sense of humour. One of the daughters of my nan’s brothers had used to keep a sign in book for any visitors who used their toilet. You were supposed to leave some small change in a box if I remember correctly. People would leave notes. One of the classics was:

“Sorry false alarm. It was only wind!”

We had a doodleart poster in our toilet in America. To use our toilet you had to be prepared to do some colouring in and sign the poster. We had loads of visitors so it was rapidly being coloured in.

Watch “The Original DoodleArt Posters from PlaSmart” on YouTube

Little Miss Whoops

BTW MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS A MILKMAN. THERE DOES SEEM TO BE A FAMILY CONNECTION WITH MILK & DAIRIES EXCEPT IT WAS MY JOB TO ENSURE MILK WAS NOT WATERED DOWN OR OF PÒOR QUALITY!

CREAM WAS FUN. I GOT TO RUN AROUND SAYING, “STOP THE MACHINE.”

I don’t think they liked me much!

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Countries My Blog Has Reached

There are 195 sovereign states according to the UN. I realise this number can vary as explained in the following article:

http://metro.co.uk/2017/06/14/how-many-countries-are-in-the-world-why-are-there-different-answers-6708146/

One of my aims is to get at least one view from every single one of these countries. I will keep you updated on how I am doing.

This is hopelessly out of date but I can no longer easily check the countries people come from.

So far my blog has reached:

The United States – Welcome

Australia – Welcome

United Kingdom – Welcome

Canada – Welcome

Hong Kong -歡迎

Japan -ようこそ

France -Bienvenue

India -स्वागत हे(I know I have readers who speak Hindi)

Spain -Bienvenido

Phillipines -Maligayang pagdating

Nigeria -Bienvenue

Cambodia -ស្វាគមន៍

Ukraine -Ласкаво просимо

Indonesia -SELAMAT DATANG

Singapore – 歡迎

Mauritius -Bienvenue

Sweden -Välkommen

China -歡迎

Update:
Germany -Herzlich Willkommen
Ireland -Welcome

Bangladesh – স্বাগতম

Greece – καλως ΗΡΘΑΤΕ

New Zealand – Welcome

Sweden -Välkommen

Holland – Welkom

Pakistan – خوش آمدید

Israel – ברוך הבא

Mexico – Bienvenido

Uganda -Tukusanyukidde/Welcome(I hope I have got this right.)

Kenya -kuwakaribisha

Brazil – bem vinda

Cameroon – Welcome/Bienvenue

Malawi – olandiridwa

Sweden -Välkommen

Croatia – Dobrodošli

Thailand – ยินดีต้อนรับ

Tanzania – kuwakaribisha

Trinidad

& Tobago – Welcome

Oman – أهلا بك

Slovenia – dobrodošli

Romania -Bine ati venit

Indonesia -SELAMAT DATANG

Switzerland -Bienvenue, Herzlich Wilkommen, Bainvegni, Benvenuto

Netherlands -Welkom

Chile -Bienvenido

Belgium -Welkom/Welkom/Bienvenue

South Africa -Welkom

Somalia -أهلا بك

Finland -Tervetuloa

Russia-желанный

Georgia

Italy-benvenuta

Bahrain

By my estimation, I have heard from every continent except Antarctica. (I know that plenty of people live there. I had a friend who lived there for three years. His letters which had talked about fur seals and penguins, had made me quite excited about Antarctica.) If any of you do actually live there, please let me know. I would love to hear from you. I do realise different areas are parts of different countries.

Living and working in Antarctica

Antarctica

I have now found and am following the blog of somebody living in Antarctica. (I am unsure whether he is still living there.)

https://thelastdegrees.wordpress.com/about/

If my friend is anything to go by, he will probably love hearing from people. I remember the time he(my friend) wrote about all the mail getting accidentally dropped in the freezing water and how it had had to be rescued. Thank goodness for email.

Thank you Google Translate.(If I have got any of this wrong-I used Google Translate.)

I thank you all for your support.

I now make that fifty countries-50 to go.

I will be updating this as I go.

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Treacle Tarts, Pork Pies and Bathroom Locks

The Walrus & The Carpenter

The walrus and The Carpenter is from Alice in Wonderland.

I think I owe Millwall fans an apology. A more positive view of Millwall fans:

Millwall fans sing ‘Rocking All Over The World

Rocking All Over The World -Status Quo

“To talk of many things: Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax– Of cabbages–and kings”

Lewis Caroll

Yesterday’s post about queues grew out of a conversation I had with one of my youngsters. It is interesting how often we are influenced by a past, of which we have we have little or no personal knowledge. I have therefore decided to share a little more about my experiences settling into another culture.

Australian Hospitality

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Stranger Things – Season 1 – Mr. Clarke explains to Mike, Dustin and Luc…

On my first trip to Australia. I had the touching experience of being welcomed by relatives, to whom I was a total stranger. I had been met with great hospitality. Back in England, I came to understand that Australians are also generally very open to visiting people they don’t know. Out of the blue, we would be contacted by a friend of a friend of a friend, who had wanted to stay with us in the UK. An Australian friend has since explained that this willingnesss to visit strangers and to accept strangers into their homes, had stemmed from the era when getting anywhere could take weeks. People would readily open their abodes to people, who were travelling around this vast (much of it is still sparsely populated) country.

Australians in common with many from warmer climes tend to flee the UK in droves once the leaves start turning brown. In truth many people struggle with a UK Winter. On the flip side, Australians have often stared at me in disbelief, when I recount that on my first visit here, I had willingly traversed The Outback in the Summer heat. AS A GENERAL RULE, DON’T DO IT!

Inbetweeners 2 Full Movie watch from 1 hr ten minutes to view the Outback scenes.

Caution as they use a bit of salty language.

Australians visiting the UK

While still living in the UK, I had begun learning to adapt to Australian culture. I would listen as Australians who had stayed with us, had tried to wrap their head around the issues which had puzzled or confused them.

Things like why do we put plastic bowls in our sinks?

I really don’t know the answer but I still do it.

I have had to try to explain things to my offspring- things like why we sing at football matches. I might not like football in general (Don’t get me started about my struggles to understand Aussie Rules football.) but I have nonetheless attended one UK football match and one Australian Rules football match. During my solitary football/soccer experience- watching Portsmouth(Pompey) go up the first division, I had witnessed people climbing poles and a pitch invasion. I also still remember Millwall (warning contains some strong language).

It is probably different now-no apparently not! I just checked You Tube.) Australian Rules football games are usually very safe. You’ll Never Walk Alone (originally by Gerry & The Pacemakers) can still reduce me to tears.

Hillsboro Disaster How It Happened In 1989 I will never forget seeing young girls faces as they were being crushed against the fence. I can’t remember ever seeing anything so terrible unfold in front of us on TV. We rarely used to watch football but I am still haunted by the face of a young girl whose face was crushed up against the fence. We saw this as it happened.

To this day, if I see somebody stick their arm out at a bus stop, I think,

“Ah British.”

This is another one of my British foibles. As I explain to people, if you don’t stick your arm out in the UK, the bus will just sail by, as we have something called request stops.(see video below) Mind blowingly buses would not infrequently speed by, even if your arm was stuck out resolutely. I remember the story of this wonderful bus driver, who had decided to skip stopping to pick up passengers completely, in his determination to keep to his schedule.

Great Advice About London Buses

Buses can be great fun!

Let’s not forget among my bus adventures I have sat atop an open top bus as it sped along a motorway at 70mph, travelled at the top of a double decker bus between London and Portsmouth for a visit to The Feading Reading Centre and wound up being ill and sat at the top of a bus where the driver had appeared to want to terrify us by stopping more inches from the back bumper of the car ahead.

Bus : Neurotically Yours ‘Bits’ (Foamy The Squirrel) #shorts Version #bu…

Laughter is the Best Medicine

It is so interesting to learn how other nations perceive us. I once went to a talk given by a very famous Australian woman, who had mentioned her frustration with our British love of meetings, whereas she had wanted to just to get on and do things. Australians also bemoan our whinging (complaining), although I have to say I listened to a fair amount of whinging from Aussies, who had struggled with some of our British customs, while they were visiting the UK.

For my part I have always been mystified by the LACK OF OVERFLOWS on Australian sinks an and locks on toilet and bathroom doors. THE WATER ALSO FLOWS DOWN THE SINK IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. My parents had found this particularly challenging, when they had come for a visit. My father said he had felt he needed to adopt the habit of singing while he was in the bathroom. We did eventually install locks ourselves, in later years.

THE SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND

Screams from Hell

Family members once lived somewhere, where they would get up every morning to find light bulbs carefully removed and placed on a surface. Haunted Houses in Hampshire My Grandfather used to work at Hurst Castle. (I have a very sensible friend who told us his mother used to dabble in ouji boards. He would turn white when talking about it.

He said, “I saw things in that house,,,” My daughter who was a toddler at the time, started screaming one day and said there was a black man in her bedroom. When I looked there was nobody there.

singing in the shower

Jesus taught us how to pray. It covers everything even evil; The Lord’s Prayer – Charlotte Church

One of my youngsters loves Harry Potter. Suddenly I had been asked about treacle tart. I said I felt I had failed as a mother. Had I really never introduced my children, to the rare delicacy, that is treacle tart?

Pork pies (a very British indulgence) are one of my guilty pleasures. You can easily buy pork pies here, if you know where to look. Every now and again, I suddenly get a desperate longing for a pork pie. It (the pork pie) often doesn’t even make it home, as it is usually an urge I have to satisfy right there and then.

My children had also found UK driving really fast. I don’t know whether that’s British or just my family.

I have always tried to explain my cultural differences – or as they consider them “idiosyncracies” I think that is how we teach people to be more open and accepting of each other. There are some brilliant videos on You Tube, which we will sit and watch together occasionally, to help demonstrate some of my more British issues.

There is often a bit of negotiation involved, although I sometimes feel I get a raw deal, frequently having to watch a full half hour of videos in exchange for one of my five minute “gems.”(Please see video below.)

There is often a bit of negotiation involved, although I sometimes feel I get a raw deal, frequently having to watch a full half hour of videos in exchange.. I’ll watch your videos, if you watch mine.

Some Very British Problems

Honestly I think I have experienced all of these issues at one point or another.

Source:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpko_-a4wgz2u_DgDgd9fqA

Jeremiah 29:11

https://youtube.com/channel/UCsU17J7iJkq1gRN4d9A6lgQ

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Nailing My Colours To The Mast

Nailing My Colours To The Mast

Forr he who blesses Israel shall be blessed

From being moderately supportive of Palestinians, I am so sick of everything being made all about them, I now don’t want to know.

I SUPPORT ISRAEL end of story. As far as I am concerned the pro Palestinian lobby has overplayed its hand.

Here’s THE TRUTH About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (A Comprehensive…By Ben Shapiro whom I respect even if we have widely differing views at times

Don’t bother sending me sad ads about the Middle East. I now think the noney gets funnelled straight to Hamas.

I expect people will be out on the streets protesting again when it is their friends and family being blown up. Sorry but I think you are all f’ing morons!>

When they come for your family and friends may their be even more protestors on the streets on their behalf!

I don’t care how many PHDS you’ve got your still MORONS!

Coronavirus – A Vent(Please Do Not Read If You Are Easily Offended (Includes Canada)

Coronavirus A Vent. Please Do Not Read If You Are Easily Offended

It is interesting to think about our mindset in March 2020.

March 2020

Australia, we have escaped the worst of this pandemic SO FAR.

That is not the same as the whole situation being over. Doctor’s worldwide are poised for a second wave. Right now we are in the eye of the hurricane.As everybody knows that means we get a brief respite to regroup. We aqree not in New Zealand, where it has been virtually eradicated.

Nobody has pressed the off switch, Coronavirus has not suddenly disappeared. It is still with us and probably will be for the foreseeable future.

We have been told to socially distance. Lives are on the line.

I am one of the boring people trying to do the right thing. At least one of my followers had a refrigerated truck, which was being used as a makeshift morgue, parked virtually outside her apartment. That was New York. In Europe the numbers impacted have been terrifying.

March 2020-March 2o20 Seems to be what Coid had started to take off round the world.

https://beautybeyondbones.com/2020/03/23/life-in-the-covid19-epicenter-nyc/ March 23rd 2020

https://familytreeourstory.com/2020/03/31/new-york-city/?

Global National: March 20, 2020 | Canada surpasses 1,000 cases of COVID-19

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New York medics transport bodies to refrigerated truck, serving as temporary Morgue..

https://beautybeyondbones.com/2020/03/30/coronavirus-the-power-of-one/

By the 22nd September 2020 there were 200 000 dead Americans

https://youtu.be/ojrtwXqqc6g?si=iBfEcJwi2jL-_VWH

https://familytreeourstory.com/2023/11/06/love-to-the-uk-original-post-22nd-april-2020/

WE ARE NOT IMMUNE.

Current US Covid death toll ;1183 455

This is not about the protests, which while not ideal, seem to have largely been conducted responsibly. I am just talking about good ‘ole -fashioned stupidity.

Stupid is a word I generally ban in my presence but in this instance, it is justified. One and a half metres guys. It is not exactly an impossible request. Call me all the names you want. It is not about me. It is about somebody’s mum, somebody’s pop – anybody who might not be hospitalised or worse, left fighting for every breath, because we all got bored with social distancing.

It is about the doctors and nurses, who have died at a disproportionate rate worldwide.

Nobody pressed an off switch.

My Corona – Chris Mann

See Alsu:

We had also experienced a serious outbreak of racism here in Australia.

https://familytreeourstory.com/2022/06/27/the-dangerous-spread-of-misinformation-and-racism-2/

https://familytreeourstory.com/2022/06/27/the-dangerous-spread-of-misinformation-and-racism-2/

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Sydney Morning Herald – Timeline if a Pandemiic

https://familytreeourstory.com/2023/09/06/for-whom-the-bell-tolls-2023/

March 2020

By April 2020 this was how I was thinking and feeling.

See Also:

https://familytreeourstory.com/2020/03/06/saying-hi-to-our-chinese-students-who-cannot-get-back-right-now/

https://familytreeourstory.com/2020/03/16/british-virus-survivor-speaks-out/

I will give Foamy The Squirrel The last word here. This is how Foamy was talking in December 2020.

Update December 2020 Contagious Stupidity – Foamy The Squirrel

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That Time I Did A Runner

That Time I Did A Runner

I joke about my ex boyfriend rifling through the sewing cupboard and betting us five pounds that he could get colleague to sew on a button. I no longer find this funny since learning about Cluster Bs. He had once told me I wouldn’t like him if he stopped running, He was always surrounded by a cluster of supportive females. He had also left me to my own devices while climbing Mount Snowdon. His friends had chastised him for it.

I forgot he has also climbed the foothills of Everest.

TENOR

Guy Sebastian – Climb Ev’ry Mountain – Australian Idol Concert 2004

God Who Moves The Mountains (Lyric Video) – Corey Voss [Official]

Isaiah 2:2

Walter White Teaching Chemistry – BREAKING BAD CLIPS

I wonder what would happen if my teaching colleague ex had been triggered and left to explore his dark side?

See Also:

https://familytreeourstory.com/2023/04/08/breaking-bad-walter-white-discovering-his-dark-side-3/

https://familytreeourstory.com/2020/03/25/getting-sneaky-about-education/

EXAGGERATED STARTLE REFLEX

Exaggerated Startle Reflex

If You Creep Up On Me, you are taking your life in your hands!

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My abuse has been ongoing. They do subtle things so that they have plausible deniability. He sent my bowel screening check which I believe had been removed from our garden whilst I was in the process of moving t let me know he knew my address.

It felt like when Julia Roberts went to her cupboard in Sleeping withThe Enemy and found her cans all neatly stacked again. I am in rebellion still about having to have everything perfect.

Or when she walked in and heard Berlioz playing.

House of Terrors – Berlioz

That was my prison for two decades!)

So if you are “friends” or “family” who have become flying monkeys, you can fuck right off.

OTHER THAN OUR CHILDREN WHO WILL ALWAYS NEED THEIR FATHER IN THEIR LIFE!

Safety is Relative

Safety is Relative

I could sit out in a boat in the middle of a lake in the middle of a thunder storm, amid man-eating swans and still feel safe with him. I couldn’t even sit in the lounge of our hòme with my ex and feel safe!

Women Need to Stop bringing Each Other Down!

https://familytreeourstory.com/2023/02/26/just-a-couple-of-kids/

In Bali we had witnessed women delivering breeze blocks to a building site by carrying them on their heads.

WE NEED TO EMPOWER EACH OTHER

https://familytreeourstory.com/2018/01/14/bali-the-soap-eater/

https://familytreeourstory.com/2023/05/12/lazy/

This Woman’s Work – Kate Bush

Mr Brexit is one of the few people who wanted me to do WHAT I WANTED!

My daughter too wants me to do what I want. The main thing I want is to see her happy and safe to be whoever she wants to be and not somewhere which appears to seek her complete subjugation.

TENOR

https://familytreeourstory.com/?s=Feminist

My daughter and millions of others saw the one woman who did make it to the top, being torn down.

https://familytreeourstory.com/2022/08/07/speaking-out/

See https://familytreeourstory.com/2023/05/03/misogyny-benefits-nobody/

The Clothes We Wear

I want to go back to the days when my ex can complain about a jacket because it had only lasted thirty years.

Jessie J – Price Tag ft. B.o.B (LyricJessie J – Price Tag ft. B.o.B (Lyric

THE 10 MOST AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABLE FASHION BRANDS | Vlogust

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Remember God created women from Adam’s rib.

Genesis 2 22-24

See Also:

https://familytreeourstory.com/2017/07/15/my-great-grandfather-was-a-tailor/

https://familytreeourstory.com/2023/09/22/a-touch-of-class-2/

https://familytreeourstory.com/2023/09/22/a-touch-of-class-2/

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