The Chateau Diaries #72 Winter is coming

[KyBourbon]

I’m one of those weird people that actually enjoys cleaning In the office, most of what I did produced intangible results. Working hours behind a computer. But when I clean my house, I can actually see the results…it really makes me feel good! I guess it’s a kind of “therapy.”

I stumbled across this YouTuber, Aurikatariina. She’s obsessed with cleaning and has amassed quite a following. She deep cleans her followers’ home…“for free!” Can you imagine if she volunteered at La La Lande? She’d be in cleaning Nirvana!

 

[BubbleWorld]

Is Matt not a plumber??

I think the less Matt gets involved in the dump, the more relieved he feels. Whenever there is an interaction from SJ/her lens, I always have the impression that he wants to walk away and when he looks at her, I often see contempt.

 

[Parrfect Porcelane]

Maybe she could develop a sudden interest in heating historic French homes and give a vlog on that with the hope of a sponsorship. It may only require one Wikipedia search.

 

[Belladonna1969]

Andy is more of a nana than a mama.
Plus, SJ appears to approve the swinger lifestyle herself.
BJJ knew that SJ always walks around the chateau with her iPhone cam on all the time and was afraid she’d give the ‘secret’ away…OR he was just being an idiot and didn’t think that anything she films can be edited out.

I can’t help but hear Undie each time SJ uses her name . Here in Australia we call knickers undies . Snicker

Also the aussie call to a lost soul (or Tattler) in the bush is more a Coooooooooooooooo....Eeeeeeeee.
If you ever lived in Australia up unto the eighties, you never forget that call. I remember being seperated from a picnic group in my childhood at Hanging Rock when the grounds were still quite rough bush. Kids knew to respond to that call.

Sure is and it helped me find my daughter when we were on a packed metro in Gare de Norde station , much to the amusement of those around me. “ here I am Mum”
“ goodo Possum ( we call her that)”

 

[Parrfect Porcelane]

It would be interesting to hear from the company that IJ claims didn't show up. I'd love to know their side of the story.

 

[KiKiGee]

I’m one of those weird people that actually enjoys cleaning In the office, most of what I did produced intangible results. Working hours behind a computer. But when I clean my house, I can actually see the results…it really makes me feel good! I guess it’s a kind of “therapy.”

I stumbled across this YouTuber, Aurikatariina. She’s obsessed with cleaning and has amassed quite a following. She deep cleans her followers’ home…“for free!” Can you imagine if she volunteered at La La Lande? She’d be in cleaning Nirvana!

I'm right there with you!!! Here are my favorite cleaners, Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie.

 

[Bored Mermaid CC]

those companies will surely be there...but i guess its the money they want to spend...Fan doesnt like to spend money on that heap..its clear enough now i guess..its just a stageset... to grab more and more money...

exactly-it’s a stage-why would anything need to be properly installed and working-everything she does in that place is TEMPORARY

her vlog should be called The Cheapskate Charlatan Diaries

 

[BubbleWorld]

Absolutely! And totally the wrong time of the year to find professional help. But I think it is rather ambitious tp plan to sort it out themselves? ...Well.by "themselves" I mean AnnMarie, so there is only one "hands on", unless he ropes in Dan?

You forget Squeaky Squirrel, who has plenty to say about .... well, nothing

 

[Albee]

Oh, honey, it was most probably installed by French workers 16 years ago, French workers IJ has been trying to get to come back.

In my mind……if they let you down you find someone else. Like the chapel restorer. There are only so many excuses one can make. Move one. Find someone else. That story is getting old.

 

[pink roses]

exactly-it’s a stage-why would anything need to be properly installed and working-everything she does in that place is TEMPORARY

her vlog should be called The Cheapskate Charlatan Diaries

But she is not a cheapskate when it comes to sheets ….when Nattie was unloading the car sj was name dropping the designer sheets it was stomach turning….

 

[purejuice]

For what it's worth, I just stumbled across a young artistic queer person's IG which is all about Ren Faire cosplay. She wears different prosthetic pointy ears, some to be a faun, with horns, and some to be a [boi] hobbit. She's adorable, and the conceit makes her elfin features beautiful and more butch as they are not, perhaps, by the light of day.
I didn't know the elfin connection to Ren Faire cosplay. I thought that was about fat people bulging out of cross-laced clothing and turkey drumsticks. But I think there's a whole gender- and race- bending aspect for people whose looks are "anomalous" that I didn't realize.
(I'm tethered to what I call "reality", ie., you can't make this stuff up. Fantasy I find hard to apprehend/empathize.)

 

[KyBourbon]

I'm right there with you!!! Here are my favorite cleaners, Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie.

Yes! And, an interesting note about Aurikatariina…she has 374K subscribers, and her videos average well over 500K views. She has several videos that have over 1.1M - 3.1M views. Compare that to Teabeg…228K subscribers, and his videos have been averaging 50K - 60K views. It just goes to show that if you choose the right formula and execute it well, you’ll get the subscribers and the views.

 

[purejuice]

I think the less Matt gets involved in the dump, the more relieved he feels. Whenever there is an interaction from SJ/her lens, I always have the impression that he wants to walk away and when he looks at her, I often see contempt.

Yeah, me and my mean little nine-pound rescue dog? Our back hair goes up when he comes around.

 

[Bored Mermaid CC]

Oh, honey, it was most probably installed by French workers 16 years ago, French workers IJ has been trying to get to come back.

and I will bet my sister’s sour cherry pie the French engineers told them the correct number of radiators and size boiler to install, but they figured “well in the winter it’s just the few of us so we’ll cut all that down to 1/4 of what you say we need because we are hearty English folk and know how to handle the cold damp winters of England” and now the place fills up with hobos and hairbrained ninnies all year-can’t show guests or ”volunteers” with blue lips and jaundice skin on the weekly so time to do what we can to let them live in luxury but not do so much that it’s costs fan a great deal and since she is likely to dump the dump in the couple of years it just needs to “appear” to have a working heating system-Temporary Tales from the Chateau Diaries

 

[purejuice]

and I will bet my sister’s sour cherry pie the French engineers told them the correct number of radiators and size boiler to install, but they figured “well in the winter it’s just the few of us so we’ll cut all that down to 1/4 of what you say we need because we are hearty English folk and know how to handle the cold damp winters of England” and now the place fills up with hobos and hairbrained ninnies all year-can’t show guests or ”volunteers” with blue lips and jaundice skin on the weekly so time to do what we can to let them live in luxury but not do so much that it’s costs fan a great deal and since she is likely to dump the dump in the couple of years it just needs to “appear” to have a working heating system-Temporary Tales from the Chateau Diaries

IJ is pathologically cheap as far as I can make out, and has created this penny-wise/foolish pound-foolish mania in SJ. SJ makes a point of videos in which she is cheese-paring -- virtue-signalling -- as only SJ can do -- the $600, was it, MacQueen dress at the Italian outlet mall? Who goes to Italy for the outlet malls? And then to hang it like a war trophy in the Christie's boudoir vignette? Deffo sticking it to IJ. I imagine it comes from DJ's extravagant gifts to his daughter, which SJ exulted in, and likes to stick to IJ whenever she gets the chance.
"Harebrained ninnies". You win the intarnets today, mama.

 

[Marty McFly 9]

and I will bet my sister’s sour cherry pie the French engineers told them the correct number of radiators and size boiler to install, but they figured “well in the winter it’s just the few of us so we’ll cut all that down to 1/4 of what you say we need because we are hearty English folk and know how to handle the cold damp winters of England” and now the place fills up with hobos and hairbrained ninnies all year-can’t show guests or ”volunteers” with blue lips and jaundice skin on the weekly so time to do what we can to let them live in luxury but not do so much that it’s costs fan a great deal and since she is likely to dump the dump in the couple of years it just needs to “appear” to have a working heating system-Temporary Tales from the Chateau Diaries

I bet my sister's first born you're correct! And that's why they won't come back to deal with it, they know it is a crap system that was never going to work, and their advice and plan wasn't taken to begin with, so they knew this was going to happen. Trades people don't like to work for people who cheap out. Just like @Clara Burnett said earlier, heating systems are DESIGNED and the design needs to be followed for it to work properly.

 

[Bored Mermaid CC]

But she is not a cheapskate when it comes to sheets ….when Nattie was unloading the car sj was name dropping the designer sheets it was stomach turning….

yes because that is “fun” shopping and something she can brag about- it’s like the wallpaper and the dishes-“look how glamourours we are at Stephantasyland“

Yesterday's CD flog did not go very well. There was only one donation. You know things are bad when, Isabelle Jarvis quotes me, "WHAT COULD GO WRONG???" On a side note, Cheri Cornish, asked about the white car, Nutti was unloading at the beginning of the flog. No answer.
Neil Hartley, Curtis Ryan Woodside, Tony In Los Angles and Gerry were busy during the live chat.

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Philip Janssen @Curtis Ryan Woodside We’re trying to get the heating company to come over
Curtis Ryan Woodside @Philip Janssen you will all have to huddle together like hedgehogs to stay warm. freezing here and raining too.
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jetje goes dutch @the Chateau Diaries i can remember some radioters leaking last year.. but this is just so weird..

Isabelle Jarvis What can possibly go wrong!?!?!?!?
The Chateau Diaries @isabelle Jarvis You trust us!!!!
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Isabelle Jarvis Sarah Yates the heating engineer let us down! He had promised last year to come and check the system ! So angry!

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Curtis Ryan Woodside @the Chateau Diaries great blog, glad i could catch it. PLEASE BE CAREFUL WITH THAT LINSEED OIL!!!!

Tony InLosAngeles So what’s this “doing it ourselves” title about??? Anyone know
Tony InLosAngeles Those windows up stairs need paint really bad btw!
Tony InLosAngeles MP you should paint some windows and work off that debt
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The Chateau Diaries @Gerald Grady Nonsense, Gerald! I’ll have an extra thick blanket waiting for you
M Parker @Gerald Grady hahaha! Especially with broken radiators dripping on your head at LaLande! Of course, at the beach house there's always the chance if Black Mambas dropping on your head...

there was quite a bit of shade being tossed!

and Mummy-if the engineer didn’t show up-why didn’t someone from the chateau contact to schedule?-oh that’s right your adult child doesn’t get up out of bed until 3 pm and apparently the business is filled with ninnies who don’t know how to make a phone call in France because no one speaks enough FRENCH IN A BUSINESS IN FRANCE TO DO BUSINESS WITH LOCAL FRENCH EXPERTS

[walks off mumbling again about what a bunch of grifting f*cking idiots]

 

[purejuice]

and Mummy-if the engineer didn’t show up-why didn’t someone from the chateau contact to schedule?-oh that’s right your adult child doesn’t get up out of bed until 3 pm and apparently the business is filled with ninnies who don’t know how to make a phone call in France because no one speaks enough FRENCH IN A BUSINESS IN FRANCE TO DO BUSINESS WITH LOCAL FRENCH EXPERTS

Good point, SJ is the only Francophone -- beside Amaury. Do we think Ian parlez?
I've always wondered how good SJ's French is, ever since she took Hanni to translate at the mairie.

 

[Bored Mermaid CC]

IJ is pathologically cheap as far as I can make out, and has created this penny-wise/foolish pound-foolish mania in SJ. SJ makes a point of videos in which she is cheese-paring -- virtue-signalling -- as only SJ can do -- the $600, was it, MacQueen dress at the Italian outlet mall? Who goes to Italy for the outlet malls? And then to hang it like a war trophy in the Christie's boudoir vignette? Deffo sticking it to IJ. I imagine it comes from DJ's extravagant gifts to his daughter, which SJ exulted in, and likes to stick to IJ whenever she gets the chance.
"Harebrained ninnies". You win the intarnets today, mama.

cheezus stop reading my mind-it’s getting creepy









*hate it when I spell something wrong typing quickly in anger is a bad idea

 

[Kat-the-Great]

This huge and ultimately unpredictable total expense means no travel for awhile - I'll bet South Africa will be called off. There will be no more luxuries for a while. It would look terrible to the Patreons if she kept on buying things she doesn't need. This will be a sad time for Stephanie! She needs her cousin really badly now. I hope he doesn't revolt and leave. I wonder if the paneling project will need to be put off until next year.