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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2021 10:24:18 GMT -5
I'm no prude, but I really don't want to walk outside and see people walking around naked. I think there should be some boundaries. What did the Dowager on Downton Abbey say about people being nude at some hotel? Something about it being cold and damp and why would anybody want to do such a thing. |
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Post by AR15 on Jul 21, 2021 10:26:31 GMT -5
Interesting -- I read that book and don't recall that piece. I have to reread it. I'm no prude, but I really don't want to walk outside and see people walking around naked. I think there should be some boundaries. Oh, by all means - I don't think there's a right or wrong way to approach this. Though I'd definitely say it was bad to feel ashamed of your body (because of the mental health implications), I also think a person's boundaries are entirely their own to set. I just thought it was a nice story either way  |
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Post by JessicaGirlSpy on Jul 21, 2021 10:38:14 GMT -5
I share a bedroom with three older sisters (one is now at university and the twins will be attending university this autumn. We have room for other bedrooms but our parents believe it's important for siblings to share bedrooms) so I think nothing of changing in front of my sisters or being au naturale in front of them). But the mere idea of thinking of a guy seeing me in my in my birthday suit embarrasses me. I dress modestly because that's where my comfort level is.
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Post by Easton on Jul 21, 2021 10:41:50 GMT -5
I can imagine life in the Walton household. There were 7 kids in my family as well. Five boys and 2 girls. I'm the youngest boy. I have and older sister and lost my younger sister just before last Christmas. If they were like my family, we shared beds and baths. I can remember bathing with my younger sister and also with my 2 next-older brothers. One would sit at one end of the tub, the other at the other end. I would sit crosswise between their feet. Except for my oldest brother and older sister, I slept with all of my other brothers and younger sister.
Early in the series, Elizabeth and Jim-Bob shared a bed. I imagine that Jason and Ben shared a bed as well as Mary Ellen sharing with Erin. Before he got his own room, I imagine John-Boy shared with his brothers as well. I have a feeling that his room used to be Grandma and Grandpa's room until their bedroom addition was built on the bottom floor off the livingroom. It's definitely an addition as is the mudroom off the kitchen at the other end of the house. That's why there are 2 sets of stairs leading up to the small landing where the bedroom door is and where the steps continue to the hallway upstairs. It also explains why there is the landing inside the grandparents' bedroom and the steps to the left leading down to it. Strong evidence that John-Boy didn't always have his own room. Only when the kids outnumbered the bedrooms did they build the addition for the grandparents and John-Boy, probably into his teens, finally got a room to himself.
The floorplan is logical and more-or-less mimics what we see on the screen. However, in that floorplan, the steps run up parallel to the outside wall of the house as seen from the front. The landing in the hall at the top of the stairs faces John-Boy's bedroom, an impossibility since his room is at the left as seen from the front of the house. In other words, the hall at the top of the stairs appears to go left, and there is no 'left' to go so. Somehow, somewhere, the steps must double back to face the front of the house, but what we see on the screen is contrary to that since, from the landing at John-Boy's room, the grandparents' bedroom door is on the right side at the bottom of the stairs.
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Post by JessicaGirlSpy on Jul 21, 2021 12:20:01 GMT -5
I can imagine life in the Walton household. There were 7 kids in my family as well. Five boys and 2 girls. I'm the youngest boy. I have and older sister and lost my younger sister just before last Christmas. If they were like my family, we shared beds and baths. I can remember bathing with my younger sister and also with my 2 next-older brothers. One would sit at one end of the tub, the other at the other end. I would sit crosswise between their feet. Except for my oldest brother and older sister, I slept with all of my other brothers and younger sister.
Early in the series, Elizabeth and Jim-Bob shared a bed. I imagine that Jason and Ben shared a bed as well as Mary Ellen sharing with Erin. Before he got his own room, I imagine John-Boy shared with his brothers as well. I have a feeling that his room used to be Grandma and Grandpa's room until their bedroom addition was built on the bottom floor off the livingroom. It's definitely an addition as is the mudroom off the kitchen at the other end of the house. That's why there are 2 sets of stairs leading up to the small landing where the bedroom door is and where the steps continue to the hallway upstairs. It also explains why there is the landing inside the grandparents' bedroom and the steps to the left leading down to it. Strong evidence that John-Boy didn't always have his own room. Only when the kids outnumbered the bedrooms did they build the addition for the grandparents and John-Boy, probably into his teens, finally got a room to himself.
The floorplan is logical and more-or-less mimics what we see on the screen. However, in that floorplan, the steps run up parallel to the outside wall of the house as seen from the front. The landing in the hall at the top of the stairs faces John-Boy's bedroom, an impossibility since his room is at the left as seen from the front of the house. In other words, the hall at the top of the stairs appears to go left, and there is no 'left' to go so. Somehow, somewhere, the steps must double back to face the front of the house, but what we see on the screen is contrary to that since, from the landing at John-Boy's room, the grandparents' bedroom door is on the right side at the bottom of the stairs.
In my family there is 6 kids. 4 girls and 2 boys. I'm the youngest girl and I have one older brother and one younger brother. We are close-knit, though sometimes my sisters and I do squabble from time to time. And like the Waltons, we hold hands when we say grace during before meals and we do have evening family devotion led by my dad and an evening family prayer. |
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Post by patriciaanne on Jul 21, 2021 12:54:17 GMT -5
Interesting -- I read that book and don't recall that piece. I have to reread it. I'm no prude, but I really don't want to walk outside and see people walking around naked. I think there should be some boundaries. Oh, by all means - I don't think there's a right or wrong way to approach this. Though I'd definitely say it was bad to feel ashamed of your body (because of the mental health implications), I also think a person's boundaries are entirely their own to set. I just thought it was a nice story either way I agree people should not be "ashamed" of their bodies. Although lately I've been pretty ashamed of my own. 😳 But I also don't think that individual standards of modesty necessarily signify "shame." Even when I had quite the slamming figure, I was very careful how I dressed in the city -- where I was most likely to be gawked at. I found it gross and it made me feel very unsafe. What's worse is my grandmother told me one day I would 'miss" that. Are you KIDDING me?  I do NOT miss it!!! |
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Post by AR15 on Jul 21, 2021 14:14:28 GMT -5
I agree people should not be "ashamed" of their bodies. Although lately I've been pretty ashamed of my own. 😳 But I also don't think that individual standards of modesty necessarily signify "shame." Even when I had quite the slamming figure, I was very careful how I dressed in the city -- where I was most likely to be gawked at. I found it gross and it made me feel very unsafe. What's worse is my grandmother told me one day I would 'miss" that. Are you KIDDING me? I do NOT miss it!!! Understandable! Sorry to hear that you had such an unpleasant experience. By "ashamed" I mean more, actively not being comfortable in your own body and thinking there's something wrong with it, which is what Mary was writing about in her book - you can be completely unashamed and still be more comfortable being dressed modestly at all times and not want to be naked (or in revealing clothes) around others. |
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Post by whisper on Jul 21, 2021 17:57:50 GMT -5
Phew!! heatwave here in the UK, I'd gladly strip off!  No air con, me and the dogs slept in the hall last night, the only cool place in the house. |
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Post by Johnny on Jul 22, 2021 2:59:50 GMT -5
Phew!! heatwave here in the UK, I'd gladly strip off! No air con, me and the dogs slept in the hall last night, the only cool place in the house. Does the hall have a few windows so you can feel a cross breeze at night? |
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Post by avaleewalton on Jul 24, 2021 10:51:58 GMT -5
Phew!! heatwave here in the UK, I'd gladly strip off! No air con, me and the dogs slept in the hall last night, the only cool place in the house. this heat is terrible isn't it 😭😂❤️ I'm not a big fan lol! I prefer rain. |
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Post by whisper on Jul 24, 2021 11:49:06 GMT -5
Phew!! heatwave here in the UK, I'd gladly strip off! No air con, me and the dogs slept in the hall last night, the only cool place in the house. Does the hall have a few windows so you can feel a cross breeze at night? No windows, but a lovely cool tiled floor . Back to normal temperature now . thank goodness! |
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Post by whisper on Jul 24, 2021 11:51:54 GMT -5
Phew!! heatwave here in the UK, I'd gladly strip off! No air con, me and the dogs slept in the hall last night, the only cool place in the house. this heat is terrible isn't it 😭😂❤️ I'm not a big fan lol! I prefer rain. I think we are going to get some soon xx |
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Post by Easton on Jul 24, 2021 13:53:27 GMT -5
^ Have you ever noticed that a room heats up much faster than it cools down?
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Post by whisper on Jul 24, 2021 14:02:07 GMT -5
^ Indeed I have
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Post by Easton on Jul 24, 2021 17:38:16 GMT -5
^ I live in an old historically-listed building that was build in the late 1800s. It has thick outside walls which include 2 layers of red brick. There is no insulation. My apartment gets sun on the east, south, and west walls, virtually from the time the sun comes up in the morning until it sets at night. Once it heats up, it's still radiating heat into the apartment all night long. I have fans, but no air conditioning.
It hasn't been oppressively hot inside yet. Somehow I've managed to keep it relatively comfortable.
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I do NOT miss it!!!
No air con, me and the dogs slept in the hall last night, the only cool place in the house.
