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Brought over from another thread...

AIBU to think I've left it too late by starting my ds in the mining profession at 5?

How old is too old to go up chimneys?

What size coal is right for my fire?

Breakfast your only recourse is to paint this hair monstrosity for all of mankind. I can guarantee that this painting will be copiously displayed in all art museums throughout the world. Lest we forget!

After a long day visiting friends I remarked in the carriage home to my darling husband that I was looking forward to loosening my corset when we got home.

He is now not talking to me as he thinks the carriage driver could have overheard me and now fears I ruined our reputation.

AIBU to wish to loosen the top of my corset when I return home? I had several fainting fits throughout the day and only managed a small slice of cake and sips of tea due to the corset.

Also I caught him glancing at the vicars wife ankles several times but I fear to raise this in case it infuriating him further. He no longer glances at my ankles anymore.

I pay my poor rate punctually and very high it is too. I have recently heard of a pauper - the son, moreover, of a deceased pauper, so he ahs been on the parish all his life - demanding more gruel.

Why is not the inevitable whipping administered in public so that the ratepayers who provide the gruel and the instrument of punishment can see that they are getting value for their hard-earned money?

The maid left the washing out on the line overnight (slattern) as well as it now having being rubbed all over by spider willies - DH saw the table legs uncovered and has turned into a sexual deviant....

Who IBU? Shall I sack maid and send her to the workhouse?

Please don't judge me but I feel like I have failed as a parent: dd has won a full scholarship to Girton College. Where did I go wrong?

Gasp0de I cannot tell you how strange it is that you should say that - I very recently met an Inspector Cameron - I shall contact him immediately!

James Delaney had a use for me, I'm now ruined in every sense. It was marvellous if not a little rough. WIBU to be a stowaway on board a ship to Murica when said vessel is owned by a man who:

Has an unhealthy relationship with his sister and various dead people.

Has upset the East India Company.

Has upset the Crown.

Has upset the Muricans.

Makes little attempt at personal grooming/cleanliness lovely

But he does have a lovely hat 🎩 and is firm of thigh. He may have a use for me again oh god please make it so amen 🙏🏻

Also can anyone recommend a 2 in 1 poultice for raging gallop of the flange/ possible Flange rot.?

Just realised I should've posted my query on Georgian Mumsnet

AIBU to think that the Union workhouses should do for the poor? And failing that the debtor's prisons? Why should we have to support the surplus population!

"Theatre addicts"
Anyone seen that new review at The Savoy Threatre "The Only Way is The Duchy of Saxe-Coburg"?
It is most diverting. Some of the young blades have gorgeous beards.

countess - oh dear, her poor head may become overheated. However, it may not be as bad as you fear, at least she won't be awarded a degree there.

I say, has anyone perchance taken a ride on one of these new velocipedes?
It looks like cracking fun, but I would not wish to appear unseemly!
Anyway, I'm just off to send a letter to my friend Emily with this new penny post system! Father thinks its terrible for young women to use, but my friend Emily thinks he is dreadfully old fashioned and says I should become a suffragette.
What's one of those?

Our neighbours' Man has parked their phaeton over the entrance to our house. Their butler isn't answering the door to my maid and I'm certainly not walking into the street to board and alight my curricle.

AIBU to get one of our stable hands to set loose their horses and teach them a lesson?

I am suffering from Hysteria. My husband has made me an appointment with the rather handsome Dr Granville. AIBU to be rather excited?

He provides highly satisfactory treatment, er, according to my friend.

AIBU to think that my husband's invention to allay joint pains is now being used as an excuse to excite women with hysteria? As if they need it! I've given him an ultimatum. Either he stops or my pater's money will no longer fund our lifestyle.

He has promised to do this no more but can't account for charlatans taking up his invention which was NEVER meant to bring excitement to these unfortunate women

Mrs Joseph Mortimer Granville.

Shedone Oooh, a carriage parking thread! How very exciting! Perhaps you could submit a nice watercolour showing the offending carriage and how it's parked?

Perhaps you should purchase some, I believe they're called, 'Penguin* Bollards'. I hear they're quite the thing on the Isle of Wight!

*I asked DH what a Penguin Bollard actually was as I have no idea, but he told me not to worry my pretty little head about it, bollards were a man's business. At least I think he said bollards. At any rate it sounded like bollards.

Shedone do not neglect your bluebell watercolour on painting this monstrosity.

Has he not been whipped yet? If not, why not?

My maid's son, who lives under the stairs, is very willing to take up the position. he bears no resemblance to my husband

Best. Phrase. Ever. pelt of hair

Across - I got my DS to draw the situation. He's to be a cartographer and wishes to sail the world.
At least that's what he told me last Sunday when Nanny brought him down from the nursery.

want a safe fitting in our cellar to keep any valuables in that we might procure in future. Dh says it's a waste of time as we don't have any valuables and I'll only lose the key, so we'll end up with a useless empty box that nobody can open.

DS8 has returned from London in our carriage with a pet lion. I'm rather disconcerted with the animal prowling about but DS insists it is tame.

In other news, I'm off to visit an asylum later today. DH said it's hilarious fun and has bought me a stick especially to poke at them.

Then tomorrow there's to be a hanging outside the local gaol. DH is keen to go and honestly after the terror of tiptoeing round the Lion all day long, and the hilarity of visiting the Mad people, a bit of fun at the hanging should be a super end to the week.

CauliflowerSqueeze Enjoy it, but my dear great-grandparents used to reminisce about watching people being burned at the stake which sounds much more fun than hanging, doesn't it?

Shedone What a talented young man he is!! It's as plain as day!

Frankly, I think you should just have your coachman board NDN's phaeton, release the hand brake and drive it around to your mews and park it there. Let NDN send his man round to ask you for it back!

Parking is so frustrating, isn't it? I can't wait for the Season to be over so we can depart for the Country, can you? No parking problems at the old pile, thank God!

Cauliflower If you enjoy the asylum, may I take the liberty of recommending one of the even more amusing freak shows which are currently touring our isles? Unfortunately, they're popular with the lower classes, so your husband might need to take a cane to beat the oiks away, but the entertainment is well worth the effort.