Wandering Off Topic

[Vertigo Swirl]

Your Mother should have blamed the Amah.  Although I doubt that the Amah ever left you alone.  Mine never did.

It's funny.  There was none of the CRB checks or professional childminding qualifications stuff back in those days.  You'd get a young woman up from the ulu or the kampong and apart from the odd handwritten reference you really had no idea about her capabilities or motivations.  And yet - they were completely  entrusted with the house, the pets, even the children.  Nearly all of them became friends (or at least surrogate mothers) to me and I saw more of them than my own parents. We did have a wrong 'un though.  She let burglars in whilst we were on leave, they ransacked the joint and even slept in our beds, they did so much damage we had to stay in the Hilton for a few days on our return.  Looking back on it I am really quite ashamed about the fact that we had servants and the way they were treated (not badly as such, but as servants expected to do pretty much everything from childcare to cooking to laundry), I think even my mother feels bad about it these days...

[Eleanor]

It's funny.  There was none of the CRB checks or professional childminding qualifications stuff back in those days.  You'd get a young woman up from the ulu or the kampong and apart from the odd handwritten reference you really had no idea about her capabilities or motivations.  And yet - they were completely  entrusted with the house, the pets, even the children.  Nearly all of them became friends (or at least surrogate mothers) to me and I saw more of them than my own parents. We did have a wrong 'un though.  She let burglars in whilst we were on leave, they ransacked the joint and even slept in our beds, they did so much damage we had to stay in the Hilton for a few days on our return.  Looking back on it I am really quite ashamed about the fact that we had servants and the way they were treated (not badly as such, but as servants expected to do pretty much everything from childcare to cooking to laundry), I think even my mother feels bad about it these days...

I don't feel bad about it.  My Amah actually loved my children.  Especially the mewling brat.

[G-Unit]

You think.  But you were only married to The Military.  I was Part of The Navy.  And if you couldn't think for yourself then you didn't have much chance.  Perhaps this was what taught me to teach my children to think for themselves.

I haven't a clue what you think was the difference - or what it has to do with parenting.

[Eleanor]

I haven't a clue what you think was the difference - or what it has to do with parenting.

Of course you don't.

Some people do while others merely follow the band.

[G-Unit]

Of course you don't.

Some people do while others merely follow the band.

I was married to a soldier, you were married to a sailor. Both part of the MOD. The differences were?

[Brietta]

Oh look we're talking about the McCanns "neglect".  Again.  Some people will never get over it.  It's as if it was the single most pivotal moment in events of the 21st Century to date.

They're at it still.  Despite the passage of the years.  Despite investigators following a different direction in Madeleine's case or perhaps even because they have ~ rubbish continues till this very day.

From yet another poster full of hate in combination with a distinct lack of brain cells comes the following which refers to Madeleine as " ... the poor, unfortunate “missing” - Miss McCann"  >

STOP NONSENSICAL MADELEINE MCCANN SEARCH – £14M WASTED
May 14, 2022

£14 million has thus far been spent on a nonsensical search for a child left alone with its two siblings in an apartment with an unlocked door onto a public highway. That apartment contained evidence of death in a cupboard – clearly sensed by skilled cadaver dogs – and traces of blood, as referenced by The Guardian, in it also.

In December 2017, when £11 million of British taxpayers’ money had been spent towards the search for ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann, 86% of viewers of ITV1’s ‘Loose Women’ said the public purse should cease to fund the investigation. Now, in May 2022, with that sum now in excess of £14 million (aside from the millions in private money also), it is time to allocate resources to the search for missing people who actually can be found, we would suggest.

It is a mindset.  Which I think shows adherents up as having little else in their lives to keep them going.  I have always thought the last thing on their minds was any "justice for Madeleine" or should that now be, Miss McCann?

[Eleanor]

I was married to a soldier, you were married to a sailor. Both part of the MOD. The differences were?

I was a Wren Air Mechanic and served my own time keeping Royal Navy Jets up in the sky.

What were you doing?

Wren Mitchell.  115051.

[Eleanor]

One never forgets one's service number or one's service.  How very fortunate I was.  But it was a bit hard sometimes when your husband goes off to sea for two years and absolutely no cause for complaint from you.  Such was life.  This was service.  I had to see to my children.  There wasn't anyone else.  And so I brought them up with my own ideas of who I wanted them to be.

I have no idea if the children understood.  I might need to criticise their Father to discover this.  And I won't ever do that.

They are all in their Fifties now and largely smart arses.  But then I was a bit of a smart arse once upon a time.

We are all only what we think of ourselves.

[faithlilly]

Says the person who just now asked me why I care!  LOL.. I don't give a shit what you think, I am merely pointing out your hypocrisy and inability to think logically.  You started by jumping in with an accusation that I had a morbid fascination with "these sorts of people" but offered no evidence to support your claims.  I was merely pointing out your own morbid fascination with Luke Mitchell, a fascination to which you are perfectly entitled (it takes all sorts) but don't claim the moral high ground over me because that's just plain hypocritical.

Your posts are evidence enough.

[faithlilly]

Ah, and so we get to the nub of the matter.  You enjoy "triggering" me.  You know that there's a word for people like that don't you...?

I don’t intentionally trigger you, it just seems to happen…though to be fair not only with me.

The word your reaching for is TROLL. It’s rather low rent name calling but you do seem rather fond of it. No sure though why I’m supposed to be bothered when you go all school playground on me.

[G-Unit]

I was a Wren Air Mechanic and served my own time keeping Royal Navy Jets up in the sky.

What were you doing?

Wren Mitchell.  115051.

Then you left and became a wife and mother.

[Eleanor]

Then you left and became a wife and mother.

With a husband away at sea more times than not.

While you appear to have no idea of the real world.  But then that's The Army for you.

[G-Unit]

With a husband away at sea more times than not.

While you appear to have no idea of the real world.  But then that's The Army for you.

It's quite usual for sailors to sail, I would imagine. Every life has it's challenges and everyone has to deal with them. You're not special, you're not unique in 'living in the real world' you faced the same challenges as other navy wives.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Your posts are evidence enough.

That is simply untrue.  I do not have a morbid fascination with murderers and rapists.  I do not support them, minimise or deny their crimes or write to or visit  them.  Kindly desist from making stupid and inaccurate observations, many thanks.

[Vertigo Swirl]

I don’t intentionally trigger you, it just seems to happen…though to be fair not only with me.

The word your reaching for is TROLL. It’s rather low rent name calling but you do seem rather fond of it. No sure though why I’m supposed to be bothered when you go all school playground on me.

I think you have a morbid fascination with me too, sweetie xx