The Chateau Diaries #11 Shat o shenanigans

[MojoDublin]

I think your timeliness is out if sync here. The episode with Dock may have been aired on TV on the date you quote, although I seem to think I saw it before then However you haven't taken into consideration fact that there is a big lapse between filming an episode by TV company and it actually appearing on TV. So there is no correlation between that and her being in Vietnam with Geary.
What is wrong with a brother paying fir his sister to go on hols. I understand that it is her Christmas present. Yes I know they are not blood relatives but as good as.

The time lapse between TV filming and it appearing on TV will also explain why people think nothing has happened on projects but I understand that in fact 2 projects have been done and will be revealed when TV schedules allow

Hi natti

 

[frenchessence]

I’ll never forget her calling Gerry a “disgrace to all mankind” on one of the early gift sessions. Not said with irony, no sign of banter ....just cold and hard in response to some minor transgression I think. The guy was recovering from his cancer treatment at the time.....I was shocked.

Me also. I can’t recall a time a heard someone bring so directly rude, cutting and downright nasty - and on camera.

She would receive the old gardener dressed in her night robe, an elderly guy of who she knew he had a huge crush on her, for coffee in the kitchen, to receive all his free offerings from his private vegetable garden, even after she started dating Percy. The poor guy was even there when she met Percy for the first time, because she took him on a trip to SA. She certainly played with his feelings.

Presumably he was going on a working holiday to tend her lady-garden in South Africa ?

 

[Working class girl]

There has been lots of comments re heating and the cold at the Chatooo.
A). Does anyone remember a vlog some time ago where MPK was shown the attics where SJ pointed out the ‘defence’ windows? There were similar to arrow openings in ancient castles, but wider and longer. Most of them didn’t seem to have any glass or coverings. They looked wide open. I would have thought that SJ would have Selmar make coverings and double glazed glass ASAP. Certainly would make it a lot warmer.
B). When MPK was there one Christmas he fixed and started up the old cooker in the kitchen. It obviously works so why, in the winter, is it not fired up? It would make the kitchen warm and also some of the downstairs rooms, especially if it was loaded up before bedtime. There is certainly plenty of wood from all the fallen trees in her extremely dangerous forest/woodland!!!

EXTRA: SJ normally doesn’t worry too much re cold in the winter as she leaves volunteers there whilst she jets off to SA or Vietnam or other sunnier climes!

I think a later vlog explains that it is the circulation of air through these voids that helps keep the roof healthy However I am not a conservation expert

There has been lots of comments re heating and the cold at the Chatooo.
A). Does anyone remember a vlog some time ago where MPK was shown the attics where SJ pointed out the ‘defence’ windows? There were similar to arrow openings in ancient castles, but wider and longer. Most of them didn’t seem to have any glass or coverings. They looked wide open. I would have thought that SJ would have Selmar make coverings and double glazed glass ASAP. Certainly would make it a lot warmer.
B). When MPK was there one Christmas he fixed and started up the old cooker in the kitchen. It obviously works so why, in the winter, is it not fired up? It would make the kitchen warm and also some of the downstairs rooms, especially if it was loaded up before bedtime. There is certainly plenty of wood from all the fallen trees in her extremely dangerous forest/woodland!!!

EXTRA: SJ normally doesn’t worry too much re cold in the winter as she leaves volunteers there whilst she jets off to SA or Vietnam or other sunnier climes!

There is a later vlog that explains that circulation of air through these voids helps keep the roof healthy. However I am nor a conservation expert although I think blocking them up would negate the historical aspect.

 

[La Brocanteuse]

3:14 Look how short she is with Gerry and Percy here. First episode.

 

[Clara Burnett]

Presumably he was going on a working holiday to tend her lady-garden in South Africa ?

Worse. The guy went through a hard time after his wife left him. The 'kindness' Isabelle showed him indebted him, probably for life.

 

[Jeeves]

Hi natti

I've only just noticed that it is Working Class girl and not Working Girl!

 

[Hemerocallis]

She would receive the old gardener dressed in her night robe, an elderly guy of who she knew he had a huge crush on her, for coffee in the kitchen, to receive all his free offerings from his private vegetable garden, even after she started dating Percy. The poor guy was even there when she met Percy for the first time, because she took him on a trip to SA. She certainly played with his feelings.

Do you mean Bernard ?
On Selmars YT is a video "camper ride with Isabelle" where they visit him. He gives her salad and vegetables and she says something like "I never leave here with empty hands".

 

[Clara Burnett]

Do you mean Bernard ?
On Selmars YT is a video "camper ride with Isabelle" where they visit him. He gives her salad and vegetables and she says something like "I never leave here with empty hands".

Bingo, that's him

 

[Lululime]

I hear you - Whilst I watch and I observe

Sometimes Irish and indeed British humor dose not come off well

and is misinterpreted
Without either party’s involved
having a clue you didn’t get the jesting

Seen it on Doing it ourselves - mainland Europeans found it rude -
yet my Irish friends knew it was banter

Hi, I agree, but I’m a Brit and saw only cruelty. Nothing was lost in translation here. Gerry bit back....weakly....eyes down.....he felt it too.

 

[Clara Burnett]

I am looking for evidence of % of patrons being vulnerable and spending their last pennies

Well, keep looking, in my book even if it's only one, it's one too many. Percentage has no meaning when it comes to deceit.

 

[Incognito Chatelaine]

Mmn ... That comment was delivered with a rather a nasty tone . I’m sure @sandro37 will reply if she hadn’t already.

I don't think Sandro will dignify Julie Sue with an answer.

 

[Working class girl]

Booked a river cruise to Vietnam and Cambodia that was similar to one Gerry and SJ went on for less than £2000. Was there fore 15 days May/June 2018

So have you volunteered at the Chateau?

I don't have the necessary skills, can't cook, not that brilliant at housework or DIY and can't dance

 

[Sandton]

The next line in my post reads:

I think the problem is with the way the property and people are being treated.

I would also argue that SSB has had a somewhat luxurious life and between the lot of them: Isabelle, Nic, MP, and SSB they could probably easily have afforded to take care of some basic maintenance. Gerry could also invest? It is not that they did not have enough to renovate, they just didn't bother, that is a different matter entirely.

Does she mention at all when mp bought in 10% what that money went towards. Maybe that help fund her champers and the renovation of nicks apartment

 

[La Brocanteuse]

Does she mention at all when mp bought in 10% what that money went towards. Maybe that help fund her champers and the renovation of nicks apartment

A viewer sent an obscene amount of champagne and Nic is paying for the work on his apartment...

 

[Working class girl]

Nothing stopping you doing it I guess.


Paaaaarfectly put. I also needed a bit of escapism, but I started to lose it when the feeding frenzy of gift opening started. I thought it was sick in a time when people were having hard times because of a pandemic & they were living a fantasy life to most people anyway. I love Nicki Positano & have also watched the Chateau De Montmagner couple who are not remotely slick, but blimey they work hard. I agree that this forum is much more interesting that anything SJ can produce!

Don't have the IT skills. Have been following these threads for a number of weeks but have only just worked out how I can look at things in my profile.

 

[Incognito Chatelaine]

One would consider with your number of degrees you state that you currently hold, you would easily be capable of doing the research for yourself, rather than attempting to gain investment from amateurs.

First of all, Sandro was addressing me. You assume that I am an amateur, based upon what? Do you know me? No, you do not.

I would therefore request that you leave your suppositions about what I am, or am not, out of this thread. It contributes nothing to the discussion. Moreover, your reaction is an ad hominem.

 

[Pno]

Booked a river cruise to Vietnam and Cambodia that was similar to one Gerry and SJ went on for less than £2000. Was there fore 15 days May/June 2018


I don't have the necessary skills, can't cook, not that brilliant at housework or DIY and can't dance

And how much was airfare? And assume you have an income?

 

[Sandton]

A viewer sent an obscene amount of champagne and Nic is paying for the work on his apartment...

yeah the time line of that is totally out as he bought in way before last year.

 

[Incognito Chatelaine]

I am looking for evidence of % of patrons being vulnerable and spending their last pennies

You might be more concerned about the % if it included someone you held dear.

 

[MojoDublin]

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I don't have the necessary skills, can't cook, not that brilliant at housework or DIY and can't dance
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So it is you Natti Couldn’t have described your lack of attributes better myself ...