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The lady is back and doesn't like what you are doing

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HotDogsJumpingFrogsILoveTurkey · 22/02/2023 09:06

Said my 4 year old when we were alone in the house.

The lady was getting cross at me. She doesn't think I am a good housekeeper or that I clean my windows enough (TBF I can't argue with either point).

All that could be my 4 year old projecting or something he overheard. Only he went on to say that she visits lots and says that Mrs McClarkson (I think) thinks I am a hussy because my front yard is a mess (cracked paving / missing gate). The lady said it was shameful. She doesn't like my running leggings either.

I have no idea where he would have picked up the word hussy and I don't think I know anyone who would use shameful. Or, anyone who would be that interested in the front garden or windows. Or who Mrs McClarkson is.

He then lost interest and decided to start telling me about his favourite crayon.

I'm being judged by a spirit.

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Velvian · 22/02/2023 14:14

My nan used hussy to mean a bit of a slag (crimes like wearing a dress without tights etc) . Me and DSISs were not exempt from the label. 😅

Cinecitta · 22/02/2023 14:30

CosyKnits · 22/02/2023 13:22

When I was about 5 or 6, a "man" used to stand by my bed and say horrible things about me to my soft toys. I never saw him because I would hide under the covers, and I couldn't understand what he was saying, as it was in the language of the country we were living in at the time, which I didn't speak. I expect he was calling me a hussy too!

On a much nicer note, my own 5 yr old has told me on two occasions that my (dead long before she was born) father sent her to me to look after me. Not sure I believe in that sort of thing really, but it is a very nice thought.

So you never saw him? How do you know that he was there then?
And he spoke a foreign language you didn’t understand. Then how do you know he was saying horrible things?

JaneJeffer · 22/02/2023 15:48

He's not wearing a badge by any chance?

OatFox · 22/02/2023 15:50

Well at least your ghost is judgmental and not throwing things.

TimeToFlyNow · 22/02/2023 15:57

Yeah I'm East Midlands and hussy would be a bit of a slattern. Haven't heard it for years though !

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HotDogsJumpingFrogsILoveTurkey · 22/02/2023 16:16

JaneJeffer · 22/02/2023 15:48

He's not wearing a badge by any chance?

I remember birdie badge! 🤣

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HotDogsJumpingFrogsILoveTurkey · 22/02/2023 16:18

Slattern could possible be used to describe my house keeping sometimes (like right now). 😪😳 So maybe hussy is the right term!

Yes, yes my partner should also be included in that.

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Justmeandthedog1 · 22/02/2023 17:16

Spiritualists often say children up to about the age of 4 can see spirits.

I “saw” a man at an event, about 80- 90 people present and I thought it odd that he wasn’t speaking to his wife, she was seated, he was standing to the side of her. His clothes were an unusual colour for the event. A couple of years later I found out he’d died 20 years earlier. His wife was at the event alone ( or so she thought…….)

OrlandointheWilderness · 22/02/2023 17:30

Perhaps Mrs McClarkson would like to replace the gate and paving slabs? Or clean for you?!

Thought not. Never actually helpful are they 😂

CrackedLookingGlass · 22/02/2023 17:38

Catspyjamas17 · 22/02/2023 09:46

There's a wooooo thread/forum?

Can only sensitive people see it?

Most of the odd things DD1 said were out of books I had read to her. She was like a sponge and it was only when we read a particularly book again that it clicked.

You don’t need to be sensitive, but there does seem to be a correlation between posting there and poor spelling and grammar.

JaneJeffer · 22/02/2023 17:39

You don’t need to be sensitive, but there does seem to be a correlation between posting there and poor spelling and grammar.
Oops

APurpleSquirrel · 22/02/2023 17:49

I remember birdie badge! 🤣

Oh I was just going to say this!! Whatever happened to that Op?

But yeah doesn't sound like something a 4 yo would normally say...

Mirabai · 22/02/2023 17:50

CrackedLookingGlass · 22/02/2023 17:38

You don’t need to be sensitive, but there does seem to be a correlation between posting there and poor spelling and grammar.

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There’s a correlation with the whole of MN with poor spelling & grammar - what do we make of that?

CrackedLookingGlass · 22/02/2023 17:59

APurpleSquirrel · 22/02/2023 17:49

I remember birdie badge! 🤣

Oh I was just going to say this!! Whatever happened to that Op?

But yeah doesn't sound like something a 4 yo would normally say...

I was also going to suggest introducing the OP’s child to the Birdy badge child. Mind you, Birdy’s sayings were doomier and more threatening. I suppose it’s personal taste whether you’d rather a threatening RSPB badge foreseeing disaster or a clairaudient four year old channelling someone who thinks you’re a hussy and a slattern….

CrackedLookingGlass · 22/02/2023 17:59

Mirabai · 22/02/2023 17:50

There’s a correlation with the whole of MN with poor spelling & grammar - what do we make of that?

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I think some sub-boards are far worse than others!

MavisCruet2023 · 22/02/2023 18:20

Yes - where is Birdie Badge?

Newstartonwards · 22/02/2023 18:22

APurpleSquirrel · 22/02/2023 17:49

I remember birdie badge! 🤣

Oh I was just going to say this!! Whatever happened to that Op?

But yeah doesn't sound like something a 4 yo would normally say...

Yes what happened to that thread….

CosyKnits · 22/02/2023 19:00

Cinecitta · 22/02/2023 14:30

So you never saw him? How do you know that he was there then?
And he spoke a foreign language you didn’t understand. Then how do you know he was saying horrible things?

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Well I don't think he was really there, but as a small child with a vivid imagination I could "hear" him, so it certainly seemed like he was there at the time. And I could tell he wasn't being nice because of the tone of his voice.

I only knew he was speaking this particular language because I recognised the sound of it. As it was all in my head, I assume it was just random words. Or nonsense that sounded a bit like the language.

Rec0veringAcademic · 22/02/2023 19:03

Just be careful you haven't got a Mrs Feldman. That would be the end of Sunday morning bacon fry-ups for you! 😅

WildFlowerBees · 22/02/2023 19:03

Mrs Clarkson will know you've been discussing her, await further abuse!

Ask him to describe her, her clothes etc in as much detail as possible then do some research. I'd be very excited. I asked my Goddaughter if she remembered anything before being here. She said yes I asked what she shouted 'EGG!' So not an old soul probably 😆

Rec0veringAcademic · 22/02/2023 19:05

(I was referring to the 1990's tv show "So Haunt Me" before anyone jumps to the wrong conclusion.)

Littlepaws18 · 22/02/2023 21:51

Originally, hussy was a shortening of the Middle English husewif, "housewife." Through the 1500's, hussy came to mean "any woman or girl," and by the 1650's it meant "an improper woman or girl." Definitions of hussy. a woman adulterer. synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, jade, strumpet, trollop.

I thought the word hussy was an American ism but actually it has old English origin- so if indeed it's a spirit she's either calling you a housewife or a trollop depending on how old the spirit is!

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