| User | Post |
|
9:06 am
19th May 10
|
Ciderman
Member
| | New Zealand | |
|
| posts 772 |
|
|
Borrowed from the museum archives and I found to be of interest in the current era.
Attendant Instructions:-
To Rise at 6:00 in summer and 6:30 in winter.
To open the windows when the patients have risen; to wash, comb and dress same.
To notice the patients in reference to health.
The attendants shall take an interest in those placed under their charge and exert every endeavour to promote their comfort and recovery.
They must bear in mind that the insane are not responsible for their words or actions, and must therefore on no occasion resent either intemperate language or unruly behaviour but exhibit towards patients uniform kindness and perfect self control.
The delusions of patients are on no account to be made the subject of merriment or amusement and no attendant is ever to make a promise to a patient which is known cannot be performed.
Auckland Asylum 1886
|
Civilisation is a veneer, easily soluble in alcohol.
http://cidermannz.blogspot.com/
|
|
|
9:23 am
19th May 10
|
Ciderman
Member
| | New Zealand | |
|
| posts 772 |
|
|
|
|
Civilisation is a veneer, easily soluble in alcohol.
http://cidermannz.blogspot.com/
|
|
|
9:34 am
19th May 10
|
Ciderman
Member
| | New Zealand | |
|
| posts 772 |
|
|
And for the girls!
|
Civilisation is a veneer, easily soluble in alcohol.
http://cidermannz.blogspot.com/
|
|
|
9:56 am
20th May 10
|
annmarie
Admin
| | England | |
|
| posts 759 |
|
|
Very interesting Ciderman. Imagine how brave you would need to have been to travel halfway around the world in those days. It must have taken months to get there. I wonder how meany ships didn't make it
|
|
|
9:26 pm
22nd May 10
|
Ciderman
Member
| | New Zealand | |
|
| posts 772 |
|
|
There are some interesting stories of those early days. Of husbands who skipped from England with a mistress. Of bigamous marriages when there was no practical means of finding information from the other side of the world. I do a lot of genealogical research for people and it's fascinating. Some are thrilled by a 'Black Sheep' in the family. Others don't want to know!
|
Civilisation is a veneer, easily soluble in alcohol.
http://cidermannz.blogspot.com/
|
|
|
5:27 am
23rd May 10
|
doreen
Member
| | | |
|
| posts 729 |
|
|
Ciderman said:
There are some interesting stories of those early days.
Of husbands who skipped from England with a mistress.
Of bigamous marriages when there was no practical means of finding information from the other side of the world.
I do a lot of genealogical research for people and it's fascinating.
Some are thrilled by a 'Black Sheep' in the family. Others don't want to know!
Cider those things are still happening today.
We can read all about it in the Daily Mail complete with photos.
|
|
|
11:54 am
23rd May 10
|
annmarie
Admin
| | England | |
|
| posts 759 |
|
|
We have a TV series on BBC1 called “Who Do You Think You Are?” It takes well know TV personalities and they trace their family history. It only gives you a brief idea of their family but some of them are quite interesting. There was one with Kim Cattrall (best now for Sex in the City) in which her grandfather just disappeared one night. It turned out he started a new family. I know in England it used to be quite hard and very expensive to get a divorce so a lot of people just left their partners and got married again.
|
|
|
11:07 pm
23rd May 10
|
Me.
Member
| | | |
|
| posts 558 |
|
|
Ann-marie wrote: Kim Cattrall (best now for Sex in the City).
I wonder how they find these things out, do reporters or columnists actually about a persons''s sex life? I wonder why she isn't so good at making love in in the countryside? I find the thought of listening to the birds and bees and the smell of freshly mown hay to be quite romantically intoxicating.
Then again there is always the excitement that you could get caught. These youngsters have no zest in their life, people in our 'developed' age group mostly started to learn about these things behind the bicycle shed, and that always rung my bell.
I have a suspicion Doreen may like to add to this most interesting subject.
|
|
|
|
|
7:27 am
24th May 10
|
doreen
Member
| | | |
|
| posts 729 |
|
|
Me … Is this a challenge????
A Forum flirt behind the Bicycle shed..
No, it is Whit Monday and I have a busy day +++.
But it was fun, my dear little Mouse… and the world looked on.
That is what Forums are for.
|
|
|
8:47 am
24th May 10
|
Me.
Member
| | | |
|
| posts 558 |
|
|
Doreen, you do of course realise Ann-marie is duty bound to ask for details, intimate details at that.
Please be gentle, at my age and in my condition, I am in no position for any excitement.
But they were good times, weren't they? 
|
|
|
|
|
7:14 am
26th May 10
|
doreen
Member
| | | |
|
| posts 729 |
|
|
Yes they were Good times BUT we are both older and perhaps a little wiser 
and changes have happened, haven't they.
Anyway you were Fickle.
|
|
|
9:28 am
26th May 10
|
Me.
Member
| | | |
|
| posts 558 |
|
|
Doreen, not fickle, my wife threatened me. In all honesty you were wise to walk away, especially after 'THAT' picture, the one taken by Hazel, got published. I still can't make out where all those spiders came from.
|
|
|
|
|
10:32 am
26th May 10
|
Ciderman
Member
| | New Zealand | |
|
| posts 772 |
|
|
Good heavens!
|
Civilisation is a veneer, easily soluble in alcohol.
http://cidermannz.blogspot.com/
|
|
|
11:03 am
26th May 10
|
doreen
Member
| | | |
|
| posts 729 |
|
|
Post edited 2:54 pm – 26th May 10 by doreen
That's it.
Hazel and Robin in front of my bicycle shed.
My thoughts, Robin's a fickle jade drifting like feather.
Men.!!
|
|
|
10:30 pm
26th May 10
|
Me.
Member
| | | |
|
| posts 558 |
|
|
Login
Register
Search 
Forums
Topic RSS