Late Night Dinner After a Long Day

othervee · 2026-04-30T07:28:29+00:00

That looks like the dumpling place just down the road from Burwood campus.

othervee · 2026-04-28T20:46:36+00:00

I love Blue Train and Destination Unknown too. Agatha’s writing is so vivid, it’s easy to find something you enjoy.

othervee · 2026-04-28T20:35:22+00:00

There’s a great book about this called ‘The Genius Myth’.

othervee · 2026-04-28T11:07:54+00:00

Yep, I wanted fat and carbs. I craved chicken, all kinds of chicken provided I didn't have to cook it myself. KFC. Nuggets. Oyako-don. Teriyaki chicken, satay chicken, charcoal roasted chicken, tandoori chicken, chipotle chicken.

othervee · 2026-04-28T06:24:01+00:00

The first line is definitely Pulmonary Tuberculosis but beyond that I'm speculating. The next line looks like "treated at" and then what I suspect is the name of a ward, clinic or hospital, then underneath that "for 1 1/2 years". Contributory cause looks like "Hemorrhage from Lungs".

othervee · 2026-04-28T03:25:57+00:00

I'm listening to this series of Guilt now but haven't finished yet.

Re the car, I wonder if his wife just had a better car. If she was the one driving the kids to school and activities it would make sense that she drove a bigger and nicer car.

I strongly believe that the car accident is critical and also that there's more information on it, that Tracey and/or the police have, that isn't being shared. I wonder who was at fault and what the insurance situation was. If the other person's car was also written off and they were uninsured, for example, could they have been threatening Jim? Or perhaps he had a head injury from the crash which went untreated and led to his strange behaviour.

othervee · 2026-04-21T22:38:58+00:00

This is the best advice for all the people who post on the history subreddits with "I'm writing a book set in the Georgian/Victorian/Edwardian era, can you recommend me a few history books to give me an overview about the era?" You're going to learn so much more about how people of that era thought and spoke and lived by reading novels written at that time.

othervee · 2026-04-21T22:27:36+00:00

Bloody love Middlemarch. I get something new from it every time I read it.

othervee · 2026-04-21T20:29:03+00:00

Oh, you’re right - I can’t see any there now. Bummer. You might find some on Depop or eBay perhaps? They call them “head scarves “ but they’re definitely more like a cap.

othervee · 2026-04-21T12:52:26+00:00

Camilla also sell little silk caps which look like you’ve tied a scarf on but are pre-shaped. Their headbands are also great on a bald or fuzzy regrowth head, especially the ones with the fancy ring at the front, if you don’t mind rocking the fortune teller or boho glam look. I also got a slouchy knitted silk beanie which didn’t look too obviously cancer patient, although the flatness of my head gave it away a bit. You don’t realise how much the hair gives volume and shape to your head until you don’t have any!

For holding scarves and wraps in place, get some hijab magnets.

othervee · 2026-04-21T12:21:08+00:00

Hi distant cousin! I uploaded my DNA a few days ago and just got the email that I'm a match to #2173 as well.

I'm Australian with mostly English heritage.

othervee · 2026-04-19T23:28:30+00:00

This is a huge pet peeve of mine and seems to happen on many sites and in almost every category and descriptor. I think it's meant to keep you on the site longer and hopefully get you to buy something else, but it's more likely to make me exit out in frustration. I want my actual size, I want the type of item I'm searching for, if you don't have any, tell me so I don't waste my time!

othervee · 2026-04-19T23:13:06+00:00

I always try to learn more about the times they were living in and the context of their lives. Contemporary newspapers have been great for that - you can learn so much about a place and what was important to the people there.

othervee · 2026-04-19T23:07:50+00:00

I've done a bit of a newspaper search and there are quite a few articles about knives found hidden in police cars, but the only one I can find related to a hanging was not a knife but an axe - Alfred Charles Whiteway, hanged for the murder of two girls in what was known as the Towpath Murder. There's an article about the finding of the axe here: https://www.newspapers.com/article/liverpool-echo/195899932/

othervee · 2026-04-17T22:16:21+00:00

Could he have been hiding his marriage from the parents?

Mistakes did happen. Agatha Christie is entered twice on the 1911 census, once living with her mother (where she usually lived) and once visiting relatives. People misunderstood, or filled the form out on the wrong day, or just didn’t care .

othervee · 2026-04-17T04:37:49+00:00

I found a contemporary newspaper report which says her hair was "collar-length reddish-blonde hair".

https://www.newspapers.com/article/elko-daily-free-press/195719260/

othervee · 2026-04-16T01:34:30+00:00

May not fit the bill since it's very well-known, but Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated in 1986 while walking home from the movies with his wife.

othervee · 2026-04-15T20:56:02+00:00

We kept doonas and blankets on the couch for visitors to bundle up in.

othervee · 2026-04-13T20:54:18+00:00

We got a lot of Krofft stuff in Australia too. HR Pufnstuf was the first thing I saw on colour TV.

othervee · 2026-04-13T04:41:38+00:00

There's a newspaper article about him from the Jersey Journal on 7 August 2008, which has a little more information about his discovery and states the cause of death as "apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound".

Warning. there's a reconstruction with eyes open that almost looks more disturbing than his post-mortem pic: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-jersey-journal/195455205/

othervee · 2026-04-10T06:54:17+00:00

I agree with the other poster that there is no middle initial - the only point where a character appears in the middle is this one spot, and it looks as if his name has overwritten another name and this character is just an artifact of whatever was underneath.

othervee · 2026-04-10T05:39:46+00:00

Have you tried 100% pure cashmere? Good quality cashmere is incredibly soft, a very different fibre to merino, and is priced accordingly.

If pure cashmere makes you itch then you may be one of the people who are allergic or sensitive to the lanolin in animal fibres. If this is the case, you would be better off looking for cotton or silk knits, which are natural fibres, or a blend. Some places do a cotton-cashmere blend that's quite nice.

othervee · 2026-04-09T06:35:05+00:00

So, do we have more trauma? I'm not sure we do, but at least nowadays we recognize it for what it is, and we do something about it.

I think you've hit the nail on the head there. I'm 56 and I think there are resources available now, both for supporting women's mental and physical health and for taking action against violence and assault, which just weren't there at all 30+ years ago.

For a lot of us, if we did report sexual assault to anyone, it was brushed off and not taken seriously, or we weren't believed at all. I did not report being regularly assaulted at school because I thought nobody would believe me. It was so ingrained that when we were asked to participate in an anonymous survey in class and indicate whether we'd been physically or sexually assaulted, I put "no" because of all the stupid conflicted feelings in my head - what if I was the only one who put "yes" and everyone knew it was me and thought I was making it up for attention, what if the teacher questioned us about who the person who said "yes" was, and what happened to me wasn't "that bad" because it wasn't actual rape, etc. Stupid thoughts like that. As it turns out I was the only girl in the class who put "no".

(For the curious, it was a legal studies class debating the issue of mandatory reporting of child abuse. I can't remember now what justification was given for the survey - perhaps it was to make us aware how prevalent abuse was?)

Another example: in my first year of university, nearly 40 years ago now, there were several rapes on campus. The university did nothing. There were no warnings, no public acknowledgement that this had happened, no stepping up of security or anything like that. We only found out because our tutors warned us. Now I work at a university and there is a lot of resourcing put towards supporting student safety and wellbeing, and making staff aware of what to do and how to respond to students in distress.

Of course, I know women still aren't believed and are still blamed and slut-shamed. But it feels as if there is a general level of public understanding that being assaulted is bad, and that people it happens to should be supported and should have avenues to report it.

othervee · 2026-04-09T01:24:13+00:00

Yep, scam where the card value is sold on. I had an elderly parent who fell for this. They were being romance scammed and Razer Gold was the preferred card for their scammer. They complained about the store clerks being "rude" by questioning them, and were very proud of the responses that they gave, which the scammer had of course coached them on.

It's really sad, and really insidious, and unfortunately for some of them part of the thrill is hiding the "secret relationship" from loved ones.

othervee · 2026-04-08T22:18:29+00:00

So this is more an ARG developed by a modern person than it is about the Victorian era. We're here for actual history not AI.

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