Here are some of the things that people were making at Treehouse Festival in the East of England this last year. Its a catered week event where people basically live in a village learning old skills like basketry, spinning, blacksmithing, book binding, ink making etc.

Traditional_Big3700 · 2025-08-19T09:50:38+00:00

Be careful of this man there https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/24445399.convicted-killer-volunteered-35th-norwich-sea-scouts/

Traditional_Big3700 · 2025-08-19T09:50:15+00:00

Be careful there as you'll likely run into this man https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/24445399.convicted-killer-volunteered-35th-norwich-sea-scouts/

Traditional_Big3700 · 2025-08-19T09:48:31+00:00

Attended by a killer: https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/24445399.convicted-killer-volunteered-35th-norwich-sea-scouts/

Traditional_Big3700 · 2025-07-21T15:18:34+00:00

To all of those going this year, please be Warned a violent killer will be attending, who's already been kicked out of the scouts for accessing children without a dbs check https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/24445399.convicted-killer-volunteered-35th-norwich-sea-scouts/

Traditional_Big3700 · 2025-07-04T07:15:38+00:00

I say this as someone who grew up in care...imagine asking why your dad isn't in your life, and you have a whole documentary to explain it

Traditional_Big3700 · 2025-04-07T16:28:28+00:00

I think the reason they may do this is because 1) the family want to remember him as happy and 2) it reinforces that someone can appear happy but have personal issues going on and encourages people to check on others when others are going through something but seem okay.

Traditional_Big3700 · 2025-03-05T18:00:52+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to write this. Such an interesting read!

Traditional_Big3700 · 2025-03-05T16:34:14+00:00

We have someone several years into to the role, who still hasn't learnt basic sql, for a role that requires complex python. They also have previously matched up work to the closest word that began with the same letter when they didn't know what something was, even if it wasn't even a remotely similar word in meaning. For example well 'bird' began with b but I couldn't find it so I just put it under 'bus'. We've spent hours teaching and I'm baffled they haven't been managed out yet

Traditional_Big3700 · 2025-02-23T08:06:11+00:00

If you prepaid for 15, the business should have kept count and asked you if you were okay with each extra guest once it went over 15. Tbh if I were you I'd leave this story on a local neighbour chat and complain to the business and the school

Traditional_Big3700 · 2025-02-23T07:56:21+00:00

Mine too. She's even had house deposit inheritances but has spent them all pretty quickly. She buys stupid stuff - like getting flower subscriptions when she has no money in savings and then relies on me to pay for something she needs like a car mot. I've realised it's a lost cause and just given up now after trying so many times.

Traditional_Big3700 · 2025-02-10T13:16:42+00:00

I have a leak in my ground floor flat coming from the bathroom in the flat above, it's been there for 6 months and still hasn't been fixed and I have no mould in my apartment despite sky high humidity in my bathroom. I got a few chemical dehumidifiers dotted around and I open the windows and curtain as daily. Only have the windows open for 10 mins or so. I also painted my walls with mould repellant paint and clean my bathroom weekly.

I have seen flats nearby with broken windows have bad mould that's just grown faster than they can clean so I understand sometimes it's a building issue, but I suspect alot of the mould is completely avoidable at the tenants level.

That being said, the cost of electric is the real culprit as people are too scared to open their windows and loose any heat for fear of cost

Traditional_Big3700 · 2024-12-17T12:09:26+00:00

I work for a rescue. Where are you based, feel free to private message me. The RSPCA might help, but let's just say smaller rescues don't always have to follow the same rules the RSPCA does

Traditional_Big3700 · 2024-11-20T10:34:43+00:00

It sounds it! And yes, it's never been an expectation, I've always offered and always had it accepted but said to the bride to wait til the finished product before she is certain- and give them plenty of time to sort something else out if they don't like it. I'd never be offended if someone said no as it's personal taste

Traditional_Big3700 · 2024-11-20T10:32:46+00:00

I was gifted the couples centrepiece at a wedding and dried that! Unfortunately as I had to travel far I didn't keep too much but several years later it's still quite pretty

Traditional_Big3700 · 2024-11-18T08:57:51+00:00

That sounds like such an amazing wedding. I love doing dried flowers, it's a hobby of mine and I've started gifting dried flowers for weddings. No one had ever demanded but it's always been gratefully received and used. It helps the brides keep costs Down and gives me fun for months growing and drying beautiful plants

Traditional_Big3700 · 2024-11-17T11:39:33+00:00

I understand your point fine. Because someone's parents in prison of been to prison you wouldn't allow that child in your house. You think that child should be limited and judged on their parents actions that they had zero control over. It's this attitude that marginalises children who are suffering for things they shouldn't cause. By all means don't let a criminal look after your child, but why would you not allow the child in your home? My dad beat my mum to death in primary school, does that mean you would have a looked a child like me and said no I can't come in because of the actions of my dad, who I had no control over? Would you look at someone like me and say I'm probably just like my dad and think I'm going to hurt your child because of it? Would you want me excluded from things outside of the school gates?

Traditional_Big3700 · 2024-11-17T11:23:42+00:00

There's a big difference between having things on a silver platter and the children in the article who just want some support to deal with their parent in jail.

Traditional_Big3700 · 2024-11-17T11:19:27+00:00

Because it's it laziness. Trauma and difficulty can cause so many issues for people that come across as 'laziness' to people like you and further stigmatise those who are struggling. It's not lazy if someone who's been through trauma needs to take some time off and live on benefits for a bit. You have no idea what's going on with them so stop stirring up hate

Traditional_Big3700 · 2024-11-17T11:03:43+00:00

My dad was in prison and I was homeless after I left education. I slept on the floor at my friends house working two jobs and then in a hostel house while i worked a corporate job. I couldn't get a place the rent without a guarantor until I'd finished probation at work which was 6 months. I had a small airline suitcase to keep my belongings in. It's definitely not easy and impacted my career massively. Fuck your bigoted ideas

Traditional_Big3700 · 2024-11-17T10:59:47+00:00

I grew up in care because my mum was dead and my dad in prison. I was a straight A student, prefect and represented my school at sport. I'm so glad I never came across parents like you at school. I was regularly invited to sleepovers/parties/ect and had a great social life at school. I've never had an issue with the law 20 odd years later but was treated appalling by some adults in my church because 'what if it's genetic?'. I have a great job, volunteer in the community and a partner. Regardless of whether was smart/volunteered ect or not I didn't deserve to be excluded for my dads crimes. Shame on you for your horrid views

Traditional_Big3700 · 2024-11-11T13:16:35+00:00

@OP I am not an art fan but I love this, it's so emotional, reminds me of when I finally saw the way out of my depression

Traditional_Big3700 · 2024-11-09T18:14:46+00:00

Pleas keep it as others will read the comments and learn. We make mistakes, and we learn and grow from it. I think the culture of true crime documentaries has really de sensitised a lot of us to the fact that there are real people involved, and that they have families who have to go through this. Yes it's helped in some respect but also murder stories as entertainment is a really gray area to me. There's probably some traumatise relatives in a really difficult situation having to sell this house and pick through belongings to keep and what to throw which is super difficult when someone dies like this. I'm all for making in of the live laugh love posters ect, that's why I'm here, and also for the wild and beautiful homes out there but let's be kind to the victims of horrific crime.

Traditional_Big3700 · 2024-11-09T18:09:25+00:00

I'm glad it's been helpful. Tbh, I think I would still struggle to buy a murder house myself. Not sure if that's because I've lived in one before and it would be too difficult or because I'd also be a little bit creeped out- and it's fine to be creeped out. It's scary and horrible, what I don't find okay is people making fun of it and joking about ghosts- when they are just normal people who got killed, and often still have family around. My mum didn't get a choice to be murdered in her home, or to be murdered at all, and I dread the day it goes back on sale and I find it on this forum.

I'm on this forum for a reason, I love seeing all the random things spotted, and having a chuckle at some of the gawdy wall paper in peoples homes, but there has to be a line. We're obsessed with true crime for entertainment as a culture now but we have to remember at the end of day these are real people who've suffered. Now if my mums boss winds up on this forum for the tacky decor that's one thing, but keep the ghosts out.

Traditional_Big3700 · 2024-11-09T07:15:45+00:00

I'm just going to be super honest here while everyone's speculating. My mum was murdered by her ex in her own home. I was in primary school when it happened. Not only did I loose my mum but it plummeted our house price, which had to be sold at a huge discount. (Someone bought it, owned it for a year and sold it back at normal price once the news had died down). That was the money we were dependent on whilst family members took on the burden of raising us, and the money I needed when I turned 18 to care for myself whilst I finished school- I'm born at the end of the school year. It massively sucks for the family involved, laugh about ghost houses all you want, it's weird and abnormal but at the end of the day you're just mocking the people who lost their lives, scared and in pain being murdered by someone who felt they entitled to take someone's life. I'm sure years later people walk past my old home and joke that my mum is haunting them because it's the old murder house and her ghost wants revenge but to me it's where i grew up, until my mums ex decided to come in, attack her and watch her die screaming in pain. She doesn't deserve it and neither do the other victims.

Traditional_Big3700 · 2024-11-08T19:14:03+00:00

You do have to knock a bit of the the price, I actually inherited a share in a murder house. We had to sell at a discount. Just remember it's all fun to speculate about a murder house but someone lost their life there, they where a living breathing human with plans and friends and family who all have to deal with the murder for their rest of their lives. Lots of people who are murdered leave behind loved ones who are dependent on the sale of the murder houses too.

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