The Chateau Diaries #271 Fanny has finally figured out how to stop the "hate" site, by boring us to death

[Gertrude Maud]

She was very hesitant to stroke him. Did completely the wrong move going in over his face/head. I was waiting to see if he was going to either growl as before or try to nip. He knows she's no animal lover. He just doesn't have that puppy look about him, perhaps that breed doesn't.

Agreed.

Mr GM commented that holding the pink phone in front of the puppy's face could either fully or partially obstruct it's view of her face thus causing it to be fearful or concerned. Animals need to see another creatures facial expression or eyes . . . so I googled it.

'In recent times, research has shown that: Dogs can recognize emotions in people's facial expressions. They're able to distinguish emotional facial expressions from neutral expressions, and they can tell happy faces from angry ones - just from photos of faces. Dogs can sniff out human emotions by smell alone.'

 

[JackSpratt]

I agree with you. I just rewatched and she doesn’t have anything slip to indicate who it was, but considering how Anne Marie looked I am thinking it was his friend and another doing the flue. There’s lots of ways to fall on a roof, and they were using a massive Cherry picker. Also, he was around quite a lot working so they’ve gotten to know him, the chapel workers just showed up that day, so they don’t know them yet. She said they went to the funeral, which might be kind of weird if you didn’t know the people. Having said that, would Brits choose to be buried in France or England? Nathan might have had a French worker and he died. I don’t know.

Iots of Brits who live in France are buried/cremated here. If this is where you've made your life why add the distress to family having a body repatriated.

If it was someone installing the flue it's understandable why Aumary looks so upset.

If it's a chapel restorer (sounds awful) but how ironic to have been working on the massive fire damaged Notre-Dame to then end up having a fatal accident in that chapel.

Like Mr Spratt said, you don't have to be high off the ground to have a fatal fall, you could only be a couple of feet up, fall wrongly, hit your head etc.

I would think both companies working there would have accident/health cover for their workers. Also the workers my have their own insurances too. Mr Spratt's got his own to cover for this sort of situation.

 

[Fennelbug]

Agreed.

Mr GM commented that holding the pink phone in front of the puppy's face could either fully or partially obstruct it's view of her face thus causing it to be fearful or concerned. Animals need to see another creatures facial expression or eyes . . . so I googled it.

'In recent times, research has shown that: Dogs can recognize emotions in people's facial expressions. They're able to distinguish emotional facial expressions from neutral expressions, and they can tell happy faces from angry ones - just from photos of faces. Dogs can sniff out human emotions by smell alone.'

She clearly has no affinity for things that feel things

 

[JackSpratt]

to be a bit clinical after such a tragedy, the chapel is probably not tall enough to fall from and cause such major injuries, whereas the chateau roof and chimneys are much higher up.
Something makes it even sadder because SJ is only putting heating in for the vlog. Ditto if it was the chapel - an historically insignificant chapel being restored for a vlog. Makes someone's death seem such a hollow waste of a life.

You can fall off the first rung of a ladder and still badly injure/kill youself, if you fall wrongly, hit your head on something etc. Just like you can drown in an inch of water.
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Wouldn't this accident make any of the small town newspapers around the Dump? Local news?

I did have a scout about but found nothing.

 

[Fennelbug]

I am disturbed. A work site injury resulting in death. What happened? Terrible. We will never know.

 

[vitanova]

I was happy that she stayed vague and specifically asked to not speculate in the comments as it could be upsetting for the family. If she had come out with any sort of details, it would have made it really easy to find information and ultimately the person who passed away. Speculating here is fine (imo), but some people are dumb and would start trying to find them, leave messages on the company business page, etc. My take is that the family asked for privacy from her vlog, and for once, I think she conveyed the message well.

or there is ongoing investigation. meanwhile in brenda's group people are sending condolences and T+P to lalande. why them?!

 

[shatcho shiek]

Fanny’s curtains…are rotten, so are many things about her.

Oh she knows they rotten and the flaky paint rotten sill in background done left in the for all her little miss Annie orphan act so please volunteer and donate more.

Having just come across someone's bank statements accounts myself within personal life someone who son I have been financing because she plays this same act on me oh I am asset rich and cash poor. I had a flippen fit in private I haven't confronted them as they will double down on the gaslighting.

Omg they even suggested I set up a fund me page for one of her assets as well as my labour of designing and publish a website total work time worth 5k to 10usd for free of course. I am yet to realese my wrath as a capricorn watch out. Oh how many Fanny's and mini aprons are there I this world.

 

[vitanova]

Dan making an episode on ninja warrior with his attempted ramp !!

nothin learned, you say?
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At least the didn’t do take after take of crocodile tears at the funeral like she did at Ian’s funeral. Likely not that she didn’t want it to be about her, but knew she get slammed (again) for disingenuous behaviour. And I see Philips finally got a dog, likely not because she wanted one, but it would get views and she’d continue to get slammed for being a controlling mean witch.

maybe she wasn't at home then.

 

[Gertrude Maud]

You can fall off the first rung of a ladder and still badly injure/kill youself, if you fall wrongly, hit your head on something etc. Just like you can drown in an inch of water.

My father, in his mid eighties fell off a ladder while cleaning a gutter, breaking his collar bone.
Someone we know, a FIFO worker, travelled straight to his country house rather than stopping first in Melbourne. He had not made contact with his wife by that evening. She drove up and made the grim discovery . . . he'd fallen off a ladder and died.
Even Alla (Dreaming Of A Chateau) was up a ladder in her slide on slippers. I just wanted to get in there and tell her to get down immediately.
Scaffolding and ladders are potentially dangerous and should be treated with caution.

 

[Freesia54]

The accident is tragic. I think for anyone there at the time it would have been immensely traumatic and sad and you could see that on Amaury's face, it would be something that would stay with you. Who knows how it happened, I am thinking it might have been inserting the flue for the log burner at the contractor would have been so high up. The chapel the scaffolding was still on the floor and the landing is softer onto grass. I'm certain Amaury would be good in a crisis and I am also sure he has a tonne of empathy, something Fanny lacks

He's also fluent in French.

 

[shatcho shiek]

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Who was it? She was careful to say ‘outside contractor’. Awful news. Chapel or heating guys?

I said this before it's properly business insurance needed as most western insurance companies require this if you're running a business where you have clients or workers coming onto your property whether or not part of its residental or not you need to pay it.

Oh but the governmental agency will pay I hear often cried . Ah not when the families will sue the pants of you because the disabled pension doesn't cover tit. Also there was a recent video put out my a chateau owner wasn't she American? Covering this exact situation.

 

[vitanova]

Possible timeline:
Oct 23/24 - Fanny & Snorty arrive with dog
Oct 25 - Gerry arrive, accident occur
Oct 26 - Ch4 filming
Oct 27 - Guests arrive, film Maria’s last concert (worker in hospital, but not yet passed away). They may have not even said anything to the guests about the accident.
Oct 28 - Puy Vidal Halloween Party
Oct 30 - employee died
Nov 4 - funeral
Nov 5 - CD

cd was on 3rd

 

[OhIDontKnow...]

My father, in his mid eighties fell off a ladder while cleaning a gutter, breaking his collar bone.
Someone we know, a FIFO worker, travelled straight to his country house rather than stopping first in Melbourne. He had not made contact with his wife by that evening. She drove up and made the grim discovery . . . he'd fallen off a ladder and died.
Even Alla (Dreaming Of A Chateau) was up a ladder in her slide on slippers. I just wanted to get in there and tell her to get down immediately.
Scaffolding and ladders are potentially dangerous and should be treated with caution.

My aunt was in her closet trying to put stuff on the very top shelf with a ladder. She fell off and broke her femur and broke her total leg in eight places. It didn’t go through her skin, but if it had severed her femoral artery she could have died.

 

[TorontoGWM]

Sunday night’s vlog:
“We are so distraught over what happened I have now made the difficult decision to suspend all renovations at the chateau. Out of respect we are vacating the chateau and my fake boyfriend and I will be taking a Greek Cruise that offers support for mourners. We will then fly to Dubai for grief retail therapy; and then off to Germany to return the dog and to Vienna to buy mourning evening gowns. Upon our return we will be moving to Venice to the Venetian Palace Michael T and Brenda have bought me. We want you to continue to send gifts and to double your Patreon contributions. I will need a new Venetian wardrobe and my fake boyfriend and friend Oily are going to open a gay bathhouse called Kebabs.”

 

[Gertrude Maud]

My aunt was in her closet trying to put stuff on the very top shelf with a ladder. She fell off and broke her femur and broke her total leg in eight places. It didn’t go through her skin, but if it had severed her femoral artery she could have died.

Your story reminds me of Cameron Diaz. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe she was putting suitcases in the top of her wardrobe.
This was when she was with Justin Timberlake. She fell off the ladder and broke her leg.

 

[Pekey]

We know one person sadly died but ... what of the other person who fell?
How is this person's health .... are they in hospital still ?

 

[Kickintheass]

In previous c4 Christmas filming episodes (obviously filmed in autumn) there have been fully decorated Christmas trees. So I reckon there was at least one in the chateau. What Christmas themed project had SJ planned for her and Gerry?

The chateau with the tea rooms and purple wallpaper that's up for sale were recently filming for the c4 Christmas episodes.

 

[Elviemary]

Fanny’s curtains…are rotten, so are many things about her.

With all her income why does she have such shabby curtains, and look at the flaking paint, Never mind, buy another designer dress or another Dinner Set.

 

[OhIDontKnow...]

Your story reminds me of Cameron Diaz. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe she was putting suitcases in the top of her wardrobe.
This was when she was with Justin Timberlake. She fell off the ladder and broke her leg.

All the way to the top of a closet and falling off the ladder is no joke apparently! My aunt really messed herself up. She had osteoporosis so that didn’t help anything. All kinds of screws and pins. She stayed in bed for a really long time and had to have a nurse for maybe six months. She was slow to improve with her physical therapy and it just dragged on and on. Afterwards she was a little strange. It might have been the anesthesia or ptsd. She wouldn’t leave her bed. Like all day long. For three years. It got kind of ridiculous. We’d go over to visit and after about a half an hour she’d just sort of slip off and we’d find her in the bed. She’d come over to our house, she’d make an excuse and go get in our bed! I finally said WTF is the deal? She said her therapist told her she was still mourning the loss of her leg. I said, if you look down you’ll see it is still there. She got shittin’ and said she meant that it wasn’t the same anymore. I told her I didn’t understand why she couldn’t just appreciate the fact that she still had it and could walk. I don’t remember how long all of that lasted, but she got my uncle to hire her nurse away from the service and paid her a full time salary for six years. She was her “assistant”. They paid her $45k a year. 6 hours a day 5 days a week.

 

[Lady Avonlea]

In previous c4 Christmas filming episodes (obviously filmed in autumn) there have been fully decorated Christmas trees. So I reckon there was at least one in the chateau. What Christmas themed project had SJ planned for her and Gerry?

The chateau with the tea rooms and purple wallpaper that's up for sale were recently filming for the c4 Christmas episodes.

Gingerbread theme with Fanny’s embroidery!