What is upsetting you?

One of the worst things about the heat as well as the discomfort is the constant watering of the garden. Things dry out so quickly and we are predicted to be having the hottest week this year.

It’s surprising how many others feel the same and it’s always very annoying when the TV weather reporters smile happily and say ‘it’s going to be another hot one tomorrow’! There are millions of resounding ‘oh no s around the country.’

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For those who are struggling with the heat, may I suggest putting your bed sheets in the fridge. It sounds batty, but it really does work. Put them in the fridge (folded up), for a few hours before bed, then when you make your bed it will feel lovely and cool. Also, sleep with your feet uncovered; that helps to keep the body cool.

The BBC and its stupid decision about the Last Night of the Proms! We must defund the BBC and make it find its money from other sources and not the British taxpayer whom the BBC clearly hates.

My rant about certain things - how this Covid19 situation really shows WHO will step up, and to WHOM it's just business as usual - we ALL have to play our part, but I cannot help feel more than a tad angry that there are too many entitled you know whats who just cannot be bothered, making it harder for others who, quite frankly, are a little tired of pulling everybody else's weight. Why should others have to be or do everything, whilst others slack off?

I get tired of hearing the unnecessary new cases popping up, new to people's selfishness, and the health care workers, etc, who already stressed and exhausted beyond belief, still have even more work to do. I am sick and tired, too, of people just doing their jobs being slammed and abused by, quite frankly, pathetic excuses for human beings. What is the matter with some people's brains and souls?

There, off soapbox.

I agree - you have to work for everything you have, because you cannot have the expectation that you are owed something. I couldn't go to university to get a degree- it was too high cost, never mind getting a measly student loan to cover some tuition and basic costs, there would have been the added costs of room and board, too. Couldn't just live at home. When I went to school, student loans were fairly measly, and a lot of people who really didn't need them, but got them, would brag about using them to buy cars or whatever.

I have worked in some kind of structured employment, both part-time and mostly full-time, since I was about 15. Before that, was babysitting. There wasn't a lot of extra money - two children and support payments for 2 step siblings.

If I ever wanted anything in life, I have paid it by myself, mostly. Of course, nice gifts from others very much appreciated, but I remember essentially paying for mostly everything else by myself. Let's take travel, when I was able: 3 times to the UK, once to California,and a couple of trips inside my country on cash only, really. That, plus a small balance put on my credit card and use of a small overdraft, too. So I worked a lot of overtime - I guess when there's a will, there's a way?

I guess my real point is that if you are able to, you can work and get what you need or want out of life on your own efforts.

I will say, though that it's getting harder to keep up with the Joneses. Money doesn't go as far as it did even about 10 years ago. Wages have stagnated, you get less for your dollar, and you see hard-work and efforts get ignored, and see lazy yet entitled and well-connected suck-ups get the rewards and plum jobs. That's never good, and highly unfair.

Not really upset about this, and actually find it a tad hilarious: self-appointed experts with chips on their shoulders. With my online research and reviewing of all kinds of royal forums and sites, one is bound to come across a few brittle (my word) self-appointed royal "experts". Now everybody can have their knowledge bases and can impart what they have studied and learned to others, and that is just great, in my opinion. But what I draw the line at is thinking you and you alone have the right to dismiss and/or ridicule those who are learning about a subject and may not have been privy to learning about the information you have stored up in your own personal knowledge bank. There is no need to be dismissive of people who just want to have some personal downtime and discuss something with like-minded people.

Learning about royalty, royal persons and/or royal history is rather a niche hobby; it's not everybody's cuppa tea. Finding people to share information with is actually rather hard and when you find that community, you are onto an amazing thing. Think community, sharing, and perhaps meeting new friends you wouldn't have had the chance to meet otherwise! I don't know why "some" administrators or bloggers, etc, get so militant, like they are the sole knowledge bearers and anybody who dares offer their own opinion or take on something is wrong, and how DARE they suggest such a thing, etc, etc, etc.

I have been reading some sites and have come across some of the same individuals who are obviously members of many of them, either as contributors or admins, etc. I cannot believe how dismissive and if not downright insulting they are to what I feel are just well-intentioned posters who are not meaning any harm. I have had my suspicions about somebody in particular, and I was right to realize early that there was something just off about this person. Just a tad too rigid and dismissive of others - a self-appointed know it all, it seems.

Now, I feel I have a strong knowledge base of royal and other matters, and I am nobody's fool. But I will be one of the last people to think that despite all my reading and studying on MANY royal topics, etc, that I am an "expert" and don't need to learn more. When you think you know it all, and you stop learning or feeling you can learn from others, you stifle yourself. You stop growing as an individual. And when you stifle or dismiss others, you are really defeating them and yourself.

I don't want RG to ever become a forum where you are dismissed and/or denigrated for what you know and what you can share with others. All contributions are important. Even if one doesn't agree with somebody's opinion about something, that's okay. We all come by our opinions and viewpoints honestly - and guess what? We can all learn something from each other.

Cheers,
Admin

I am upset about something. My Dad and the rest of the family have been slowly socially excluding me. This has been a kind of nightmare that I have fully come to realize. I have had to come to the painful conclusion that I am being subject to the process of exclusion. I have now noticed that they have never really accepted me as a social equal and I have decided to just accept and process the pain. It's hard and spreading like a kind of infection and the process hasn't yet finished and it has been painful. None of them talk to me online and it is increasingly clear that I am really alone in this world. I have friends and plenty of connections, but no real bond with anyone.