The Chateau Diaries #143 how tattle saved me and my family

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I love that her garters appear to be holding up loose leg skin instead of stockings!
 
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Have to say...i never liked that kind of gardenfurniture...i like our gardenloungeset..when i am outside i want to relax...not ending up with a square ass.... a painfull back...and sliding cushions...
 
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maybe Pavlina can start on the windows next?? they didnt have paint on them since the second world war...
 
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He doesn't APPEAR quietly spoken, harmless, free spirited..he is that Not materialistic which is why he didn't fit into the chateau grab culture.Spent time escaping from the chatter & mayhem at La Lande - going to the beach to get away. I think he is someone who doesn't want much out of life apart from somewhere to put his camper and to earn his keep. Welcomed like a 'gift from God' is what Mummy said when he arrived. Yes he is a bit dull & not to everyone's taste but he & Diesel were key cast members for Fanny's channel. It seems that genuinely nice people like the last two chateaux owners like him. They've obviously communicated before he arrives & he brings them something different. Clearly it up to them if they want to pursue a business opportunity with him & Tatayna. In terms of grifting I'd say he's pretty low down the ladder in that respect. I didn't get the vibe that he was putting himself up above the workaway - just that he was offering to help him. Not that we haven't seen him doing that plenty of times at La Lande so it's in character for him to do that. Unlike lazy boy Phi Phi. I hope the chateau owners don't go up the route of vlogging/Patreon. Saturated market now that (fingers crossed) no more lockdowns.
 
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maybe Pavlina can start on the windows next?? they didnt have paint on them since the second world war...
LOL! FFS, I just spat my tea out reading that. I agree, both inside and out, and windows at the HMN, especially from the rear 100% look like they have have been abandoned since 1945.
 
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he fit in the chateau grab culture enough, to make sure he stopped at lalande on his return to france in order to pick up his gifts
 
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he fit in the chateau grab culture enough, to make sure he stopped at lalande on his return to france in order to pick up his gifts
And look how he was treated when he arrived back there...
Hardly welcomed was he? Little Lord Fondletoy sent out to invite him in for tea as though it was an afterthought. No welcome back staged for the camera, for all his popularity. His tools and other belongings dumped in an out building. I think whatever gifts he received he deserves after the shabby way he was treated by NO before and after Tatyana arrived. And who knows what gifts were held back due to NO being in charge of them? Certainly the Spode dog bowl that belongs to Diesel, but I'm betting NO went through those gifts addressed to Selmar with a fine tooth comb and withheld anything she and SJ wanted for themselves.
 
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Plus, if you had sent him a gift, wouldn’t you want to know he had gotten it? I saw it more as being thoughtful to the gift giver. I think, like so much else in life, it comes down to our personal opinion. Do we want to see something negative or do we want to see something positive? There are a lot of small things that get blown out of proportion on this forum when, in actual fact, there’s no meat on that bone. I speak from personal experience when I say…when you have a near death experience as I’m guessing Selmar’s accident was, it changes your perspective. Might not be everyone’s cup of tea but, personally, I see no harm in what he does.
 
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I have to respectfully disagree.
Your evaluation, and mine, is who Selmar essentially used to be, before he arrived and was exposed to the ways of the HMN. "Mix with them, get like them", springs to my mind.
Even more so if you are sitting witnessing the explosive escalating revenue that occurred with very little effort from SJ during lockdown!
Today, is a totally different matter as he has been exposed to the ways of IJ/SJ/YT - plus the matter of how the hell did he and Tatty ever think that they were ever going to be able to buy a chateau without a bean between them, other than via ebegging or the grifting world at large as a result through his connection with the HMN, et al, i.e. SJ, who defo encouraged them, 100% wrongly imho. But, as we all know, she wanted them gone asap!
He is defo not the same person he was 3-4 years ago when he first arrived at the HMN.
Good or bad, makes no difference to me as Selmar is not someone who would ever be part of my own personal life. AND, I only wish him the best but like many others have said here, he does truly need a reality check.
 
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But he'd done his video throwing them under the bus by that point... It appears Diesel's Spode bowl was the spoils of war...

'Lay down with dogs, get fleas' springs to my mind
 
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maybe Pavlina can start on the windows next?? they didnt have paint on them since the second world war...
I would dearly love to see someone disassemble the hardware on those windows and remove the paint from it! I loathe painted hardware no matter what it’s on! It smacks of lazy…oh wait!
 
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I love that her garters appear to be holding up loose leg skin instead of stockings!
I'm so glad I opened that pic.. for some reason I thought you were talking about the lady chateau owner in the white dress Selmar was teaching to dance
 
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LOL! FFS, I just spat my tea out reading that. I agree, both inside and out, and windows at the HMN, especially from the rear 100% look like they have have been abandoned since 1945.
Perhaps paint theshutters mauve like the Chateau de la Batallie that Sillymar is visiting - it's an ugly exterior colour, but at least they're painted. Or maybe Anna has some extra green paint she can send over to Fanny.
 

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But he'd done his video throwing them under the bus by that point... It appears Diesel's Spode bowl was the spoils of war...


'Lay down with dogs, get fleas' springs to my mind
LOL. God forbid, I sincerely hope that you are not inferring that Diesel has fleas! Joking aside. I 100% agree with you which was exactly my point in my post.
 
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he fit in the chateau grab culture enough, to make sure he stopped at lalande on his return to france in order to pick up his gifts
I cannot agree. I think he went hoping for some sort of grown up conversation with the woman who had conned him into thinking he meant something to her as a friend. On the pretext of picking up his tools & his gifts (rubbish ones at that) were left for him in an outbuilding. Shabbily she sent her consort down to meet him. He is odd & dull but I don't think he is a greedy grabber like the chateau crew are IMHO.

Ah, but this is how a narcissist works on people. I'll say it again-that's what Jarvis has done to Petherick, Marie, Selmar..see a pattern. Idealization, devaluation, and rejection.
So he was King Selmar, a gift from God. Then he gets dull, she wants him gone. So his jobs are given to others, Dan, Amaury..come on Selmar get the message & just go why won't you. So when he decides he wants to go, that he has big plans she encourages him, yes, yes Selmar you & Tatti can do that...anything to get rid of him. Crafy mare setting him up for failure, to look a fool to expect to own a chateau. Who does he think he is? Only rich girls with rich friends can own a chateau not a grubby man in a campervan. Ha ha ha ha..laughing at him behind his back - whilst making herself look supportive. It's all about how they look. He fell for it.
The change I see is that he is now wanting more for him & Tatti. As for someone being in your life I think I'd prefer Selmar to Stephanie any day of the week.
 
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