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Post by toffeecrumble on Sept 13, 2008 8:48:27 GMT -5
Do workers eat what is set before them, treat the friends with respect, fit into the family arrangements, or are they rather too demanding when they arrive at your home, these days?
We need your car, special diet, different time for meals, separate rooms, use of your telephone, computer, television, softer pillows, we want to have gospel meetings in your home, barn, garage, shed....................... The demands are endless, or are they?
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Post by aileen on Sept 13, 2008 13:03:56 GMT -5
No the demands are not great and nothing like you imply.
I find that if you treat them as any other they like it best. So many get sick of special treatment.
I give them macaroni, not roast beef. No special bedding, or anything. Washing? There's the machine, help yourself.
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Post by september on Sept 14, 2008 3:43:14 GMT -5
Do workers eat what is set before them, treat the friends with respect, fit into the family arrangements, or are they rather too demanding when they arrive at your home, these days? We need your car, special diet, different time for meals, separate rooms, use of your telephone, computer, television, softer pillows, we want to have gospel meetings in your home, barn, garage, shed....................... The demands are endless, or are they? In my experience, your list of demands are accurate. When Tommie Gamble deigned to stay with us, he requested his meals at times that suited him, with no thought for anyone else eating and less for the one that was expected to cook twice or re-heat. Special diets are rampant; no sugar/salt/eggs or whatever Jan De Vries has dreamed up at their last appointment and unless you are going to cook two meals, then you must cook sufficient of the bland offering for the other hungry mouths that come to the table. Seperate rooms are a requirement and if there is not adequate stabling in your home, they each go to a different home in order not to share. Some workers are particular about bed clothes and, even in this day and age when households would otherwise have long abandoned them, require blankets on the bed, not quilts/duvets. I haven't experienced any specific requests about pillows. They no longer demand cars as there is a field car although a certain brother worker always seems to find an excuse to "need" the fanciest car in the field for a lengthy jaunt to a funeral of some obscure person at the other end of the country. The telephone is required, and Mr. Gamble also requested a writing desk and a comfortable chair be put in his room. We were rather lax about returning the contents after re-decorating otherwise he'd not have made such a request. I've never been asked for access to a television! Aileen, some sister workers and perhaps the younger brother workers may use the washing machine themselves, but I've done the washing for many. Some tend to keep the bulk of their washing for the favoured home in the field, presumably getting a better service and perhaps faster turn-around time. Some workers of course, chip in with the housework or cooking - Ann Quinn being a shining star in that respect. She loves cooking anyway and I think it is a way for her to unwind. And no, not always roast beef - pasta and rice dishes are often served to those that are less particular about dietary limitations.
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Post by aileen on Sept 14, 2008 6:36:01 GMT -5
Its not just younger or sister workers can use a washing machine. I've had the overseer doing his own, and loving it (or saying that!)
People who get thiese demands might (IMO) be too soft with them. Treat them as you would your brother, sister, children. You'll liekly get a better reception, that a list of requests.
I have only cooked different food for those that I know have a good reason (Colostomy etc). Many workers have their mobile, so don't need the landline.
TG hasn't stayed here with us. From what you say, doubt he'd want to.
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Post by lovejoy on Sept 17, 2008 11:30:55 GMT -5
Jan de Vrie, that's the name! there was a time they all waxed lyrical about this Doctor. Like there was never another doctor in the UK!!
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Post by september on Sept 17, 2008 12:38:21 GMT -5
Jan de Vrie, that's the name! there was a time they all waxed lyrical about this Doctor. Like there was never another doctor in the UK!! They still do. I happened to bring a worker to an appointment at his clinic once and could barely get through the door as the waiting room was full of other workers and dottering old friends. One worker sighs with something akin to being star-struck and says that only for Jan, she'd never have managed to stay so long in the work. Someone less charitable says Jan fills the place of a husband for all these women by providing a listening and sympathetic ear. I have no opinion on the man personally; he seems pleasant enough when I meet him but I do think he's grossly over-rated medicinally.
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Post by aileen on Sept 17, 2008 14:06:58 GMT -5
JdV must be one of the few friends who is regularly on TV and has his own radio programs.
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Post by degem on Sept 17, 2008 14:41:27 GMT -5
What is Mr. DeVries speciality?
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Post by otto2 on Sept 17, 2008 15:47:08 GMT -5
and what Tv & radio programs exactly? & is that in Ireland or mainland UK?
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Post by Claire on Sept 18, 2008 0:07:25 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2008 2:48:05 GMT -5
JdV must be one of the few friends who is regularly on TV and has his own radio programs. And a regular column in a well known "Sunday" newspaper ! Nothing at all wrong with that, except of course Sunday newspapers were once a taboo !
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