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I haven't been around in forever, but I saw the curtains in the trees today and I just....I can't even. 2014 will go down as the year Lady Lydia truly went around the bend, not quietly mind you but barreling at breakneck speed. :shock:

Her new heading on the blog makes me laugh every time I pull it up : "Ladies at Home - Creating Beauty at Home and a Beautiful Home Life"

Hey Lydia, in the dictionary under redundant, it says "see: redundant."

And all she ever goes on about anymore is how terribly, terribly busy she is keeping house. What on God's green earth do two older middle-aged/elderly people do in that tiny house that requires so much damn housekeeping? Do they have food fights every night? Mud wrestle? Seriously, what the hell?

Snark aside, I think she's clinically depressed and sliding slowly into dementia. I also wonder if her kids have started keeping their distance from crazy grandma; she rarely mentions them these days.

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I haven't been around in forever, but I saw the curtains in the trees today and I just....I can't even. 2014 will go down as the year Lady Lydia truly went around the bend, not quietly mind you but barreling at breakneck speed. :shock:

Her new heading on the blog makes me laugh every time I pull it up : "Ladies at Home - Creating Beauty at Home and a Beautiful Home Life"

Hey Lydia, in the dictionary under redundant, it says "see: redundant."

And all she ever goes on about anymore is how terribly, terribly busy she is keeping house. What on God's green earth do two older middle-aged/elderly people do in that tiny house that requires so much damn housekeeping? Do they have food fights every night? Mud wrestle? Seriously, what the hell?

Snark aside, I think she's clinically depressed and sliding slowly into dementia. I also wonder if her kids have started keeping their distance from crazy grandma; she rarely mentions them these days.

You have to wonder. I wonder about her husband. Can you imagine coming home every day to find that your spouse has bought yet more cheap pink bric-a-brac, or has set up a tent full of garbage in the front yard, or has taken to roaming the yard in a "cape" made from shabby white fleece? The curtains on the trees would have me truly worried. :|

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Huh you guys really weren't kidding about the curtains on trees. That's interesting.

Also she says

The air is quite warm and it is going to rain in a few minutes.

so is she going to take everything she carefully set out inside or is she going to let it get rained on?

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Ok, she goes on and on about refined speech in that post Salex quoted.

I mean to the point where she doesn't even think you should talk about your digestive tract in polite company.

And certainly you shouldn't discuss bodily functions, and definitely not any part of your anatomy.

But then she quotes scripture to back up what she wrote, and she shortens Titus to Tit.

She's just having fun with us, right?

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I think Lady Lydia has severely lost touch with reality and has been doing for a while.

That´s Lady Lydia in a nutshell, yes.

I actually heavily doubt she does even have ANY company these days (apart from her husband and some visits from her daughter here and there)?

Posts about her social life all sound like crude fiction and retelling stories from past times.

Her daughter does have a blog too, which is even more "far out" on the craftsy/pretend-victorian side :D ( thepleasanttimes.blogspot.co.at )

Also, as Lydia certainly is one of the bloggers who pulled me down the fundish rabbithole, does anyone know how reliable this snark blog about LL is ?

Because it draws a quite dreary picture about Lydia Shermans life...

homelivin.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/lady-lydia-does-not-practise-what-she-preaches/ ´bout the Ladies true living conditions...

homelivin.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/an-interesting-comment-from-a-reader/ <- about someone who claims to live near LL and is not so fond of her.

Anyone knows about her sons? She never mentions them. :think:

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Tree curtains. Tree curtains. Tree curtains. Nope, still doesn't make sense. Also, I love the idea of starting your "busy" day by dragging out a table, wicker chair, table linens, tree curtains and pink whatnots into the woods to make a to-do list. EFFICIENT! :doh:

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What is that one thing on the table, a birdcage with flowers in it?

I think you're right. Captive flowers are such a day-brightener!

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What is that one thing on the table, a birdcage with flowers in it?

I think that was a fad about 10-20 years ago in some decorator mags

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If I have no freedom from men, neither shall these flowers have their freedom! If I must be hemmed in by these walls, the very trees of the land shall also be hampered by outdated window treatments!

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The weird thing for me about Lady Lydia is that... I can kind of relate? I mean, I'm a feminist who works full-time and doesn't care for pink, but a good cup of tea on the patio? One of my favorite ways to start the day. I understand the wish for peace and orderliness and a bit of refinement in everyday life. Sometimes I put a pot of tea, a cup and saucer and my kindle outside on a fancy tray. Is this the road to madness? :o

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When you feel tempted to buy curtains at Goodwill to hang on the trees while you have your tea on the patio, let us know. We'll stage an intervention for you.

:lol:

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I think you bring up a good point, actually. It's fairly easy to relate to LL's intentions to surround herself in beauty and charm. Sometimes I look at all the electronics in practically every room in the house and each member of the family glued to their devices and I think, "WTF?" We're so disengaged now. It can make you wish for times gone by when people actually interacted with each other.

But where LL fails, like most fundies, is taking it to the extreme. And, her execution. Her execution sucks. Her attempts at creating beautiful painting-like vignettes in her life fail. They just fail. And we laugh.

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I think that was a fad about 10-20 years ago in some decorator mags

pretty safe bet LL has old Victoria magazines arranged in a fan shape on a wicker table somewhere in her house. :D

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VICTORIA MAGAZINE August 1988 Home & Garden (Beatrix Potter, Vintage Clothing, Lace, Pillows) *from Amazon

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don't know her IRL... but used to love Victoria magazine :embarrassed: thanks for the buzzfeed link! hilarious!

Kind of sad these fundie peeps like LL (and me back then) just don't realize that magazine came along as a pictorial break from harsh yuppie office life in the days before Pinterest. Like a lifestyle porno for people too busy to read romance novels or old English classics. :D

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I think you bring up a good point, actually. It's fairly easy to relate to LL's intentions to surround herself in beauty and charm. Sometimes I look at all the electronics in practically every room in the house and each member of the family glued to their devices and I think, "WTF?" We're so disengaged now. It can make you wish for times gone by when people actually interacted with each other.

But where LL fails, like most fundies, is taking it to the extreme. And, her execution. Her execution sucks. Her attempts at creating beautiful painting-like vignettes in her life fail. They just fail. And we laugh.

They fail sooooo badly. It's a strange kind of obliviousness, coming from a world where serving cereal on a paper towel is playing at B and B living, and forcing children to pay for dinner with chores is a fun activity. :wtf:

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The weird thing for me about Lady Lydia is that... I can kind of relate? I mean, I'm a feminist who works full-time and doesn't care for pink, but a good cup of tea on the patio? One of my favorite ways to start the day. I understand the wish for peace and orderliness and a bit of refinement in everyday life. Sometimes I put a pot of tea, a cup and saucer and my kindle outside on a fancy tray. Is this the road to madness? :o

Nah. I know I'm nutty as a Christmas fruitcake sometimes. Know what I did? Bought a cup and saucer in Betty Draper's casual china pattern. And I drink coffee from it, while watching Mad Men. As you do. :lol:

What I DON'T do, is blog about it, take 27 pictures of it, and tell everyone they're a lousy Mad Men fan and are offending the gods of 60's decorating if they don't do it just like me.

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Nah. I know I'm nutty as a Christmas fruitcake sometimes. Know what I did? Bought a cup and saucer in Betty Draper's casual china pattern. And I drink coffee from it, while watching Mad Men. As you do. :lol:

What I DON'T do, is blog about it, take 27 pictures of it, and tell everyone they're a lousy Mad Men fan and are offending the gods of 60's decorating if they don't do it just like me.

I see nothing crazy about this. :dance:

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I see nothing crazy about this. :dance:

Me neither, given that one day at an estate sale, I bought a set of dishes in my grandmother's every day pattern specifically so I could drink Folgers Coffee from one of the cups. And I don't generally drink Folgers.... but it was a compulsion. And maybe I should blog about it, now that we bring it up.... ; 0

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I see nothing crazy about this. :dance:[/quote

Soul sistah. :cracking-up:

Said cup and saucer sit on the kitchen counter. You should hear my kids..."DON'T PUT THAT IN THE DISHWASHER! It's Mom's Mad Men cup, she'll flay you alive!"

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