Sandi, I have to ensure that I get everything I need to get done in a day, done by the time you post your videos because I spend the rest of the day reading about whatever you've discussed, and ordering more books. Thank you, to you both, for all your wonderfulness.
I have a friend who fought (not in her sense) to get New Zealand to honour Nancy Wake's wartime service. I sent him the link to this video and he responded: "I was aware of nearly everything said as having spent 3 days with Nancy ( who loved living through her escapades ) told me so much..... even in her 90’s how she could kill me with he swipe with the side of her hand and at the same time demonstrated just how she could do it .. . At the end of the war she was sitting with a friend in a restaurant in Paris ( speaking English with her friend) when she overheard the French waiter make the comment that” this English woman didn’t even know what the war was even about” . Nancy got up , and in her clear French she told him that she knew more about the war than this lazy waiter and she laid him on the floor with one of her quick’ Knock outs’. She could not abide either Germans or fools."
@Ant B And what, pray tell, will they say about you in 75 years? Extraordinary times creates extraordinary people. It is extremely difficult to judge the past with modern mores.
Every day this session with Sandi (and Debbie) is looked forward to and cherished. I really, REALLY, would love it to be transcribed into a new "book of days'. I fear awful withdrawal symptoms when it does to an end.
a very quick comment on the wearing of armour - underneath all the metal are straps and ties and buckles. A good suit is made for you, and that strapping, the harness, makes it quite comfortable to wear. The harness holds all the metal close to your body, so as you move, it does too but without any extra effort. Consider, if your sword is unbalanced, you use more muscles in its use, you get tired far too quickly and you're dead - same with the armour. If you couldn't wear it through a day of biff, sleep in it (done that), and then biffed through the next day - you'd probably be dead. Comfort and utility were the bywords, in Latin or Deutsch or French, with regard to wearing armour.
Oh yes I've seen reenactors in period appropriate plate mail practically doing acrobatics, leaping up from ground and rolling and such. There's a huge range of movement in plate. Although i think Joan of arc probably didn't brush her own hair.
This episode reminded of a book I’d read by Kristin Hannah, “The Nightingale”. A story of two sister in German occupied France during WWII. A story inspired by a Belgian woman named Andree de Jongh who also helped downed Allied airmen escape to Spain. Fascinated there were two women with the same tenacity sent me searching for more. And for that I offer many thanks. I am better for having watched you all these days. Take care. Be kind.
hi sandi, i am enjoying you videos very much. im in my 60+ s and am 6'1" and 'big' boned. needlss to say when i was younger girls of my stature where few and far between. this was before the internet and our library did not have any books about heroic woman. so i really enjoy you talking about them. but back then i developed my own ideas of what a hero was. a hero is a person who gets up every morning and works till dark - every day. i have never run out of things to do. i have helped birthings and cleaned and laid out the dead, and pretty much every thing between. to me it was just my duty. society needs its heros, but the real backbone of society is the woman who day in and day out do what is needed so people have something to eat, something to ware, and someone who loves without exspectation of anything back.
Hello Sandi, I have just discovered your Vox Tox segments today; I've enjoyed several, so far. I've only known of you from the Bake off show (which was also my introduction to Noel, as well.) These are a lovely respite from the hideous news that we are surrounded by today, especially with Donald the Douche in charge of not accepting any responsibility. Your enthusiasm for the blend of history and literature is inspirational, and you are a delight. Thank you so much for a new (to me) bright spot in our days. Subscribed and alerted! Big thumbs up, m'dear.
As a career naval intelligence man, I am gobsmacked that I did not know of Ms. Nancy Wake. I have always been inspired by those who have gone before me and hope to have inspired those that follow. We are all tested by the times we are born into. But it is not for glory that we serve. I was a warrior, that my sons might be merchants and that theirs, might be poets. And daughters, if I had the honour of having siring them, and granddaughters, might have been senators and artists. It is for our mates, and our families, that we step into harm's way. It would have been my greatest joy, indeed, even today, should peace reign and our services no longer needed. Alas, I fear that day is long in coming. Peace, and kind regards,
Love your work, Sandi. As a transgender man I may have once been burnt at the stake, but then again I'm no fighter. Love it that Nancy Wake was born in Wellington, New Zealand.
Thank you Sandi - I am forever in awe of your knowledge and ease of presenting in such an engaging way ❤️ Thank you so much for bringing all these amazing women to our attention too (what a huge loss to history lessons in schools, that I haven't heard of them until now when I am close to 60 years old!!) I have just bought a book about Nancy Wake on eBay 😉 and she might well become my new historical heroine alongside Empress Matilda. I will forever be grateful for Vox Tox for waking up my brain in lockdown 🤓💡
Late medieval armour was indeed almost a piece of art. It didn't prevent one from combing their hair or performing other precise manipulations, but a knight would also wear a linen cap, a mail hood and a helmet for battle, so any efforts at combing would soon be undone.
Picture Noah Fielding poking around an antiquarian book shop and stumbling on this volume about Joan and saying “that would make a perfect little gift for Sandi!”
As ever, todays video allows me to plod on through another interminable day. However, for some reason this video has imbued me with a new sense of purpose. You never know, perhaps I will pick up the things I drop and leave on my living room carpet to taunt me... A side note, for anyone who may have read yesterday about my blocked loo, I am pleased to say an emergency plumber arrived resplendent in gloves and mask at around 4pm yesterday. What you may ask did I do up until then? Drank nothing but a little water to take my medication is the simple answer to that. However, I am pleased to say I have a friend gifted with something that eludes me much of the time - common sense! During a WhatsApp chat, I was struck by just how under used my brain was when Yvette, sounding puzzled, said “why don’t you transfer yourself onto your shower stool (wheelchair user) and pee over the drain”? I cannot begin to tell you the relief I felt, and how amazed I was at just how much liquid I had been holding on to! I think I may carry the camel gene. Yes, I did run the shower, and yes, I did clean everything with antibacterial spray. I knew I kept Yvette in my life for a reason... Thank you Sandi, Debbie, Alex, Bobby Knitwit and Mildred for giving me a reason to smile each day.
I love watching this, but always nave subtitles on. Today the autogenerator was really struggling! If you and Debbie ever have time, writing your own (correct) subtitles would be a boon for those with hearing impairments and auditory processing difficulties. On the other hand the various attempts it had at Orleons was quite amusing:)
Australian writer Peter Fitzsimons has written a biography about her in 2001. She died at the age of 98 in 2011. The Germans called her the White Mouse
@@paulinehendle9050 I was told it started after WWI when soldiers came back home having picked up the habit of swearing in the trenches (and you can hardly blame them). If they used an inappropriate word at home they would try to pass it off as 'French'
Nancy Wake's life needs to be a TV series or film ASAP. And it definitely needs to be scripted by Sandi so we get factual narrative, not some modern script editor crow-barring in unnecessary sex & titillation every 2 minutes.
Sandi, I have to ensure that I get everything I need to get done in a day, done by the time you post your videos because I spend the rest of the day reading about whatever you've discussed, and ordering more books. Thank you, to you both, for all your wonderfulness.
I have a friend who fought (not in her sense) to get New Zealand to honour Nancy Wake's wartime service. I sent him the link to this video and he responded: "I was aware of nearly everything said as having spent 3 days with Nancy ( who loved living through her escapades ) told me so much..... even in her 90’s how she could kill me with he swipe with the side of her hand and at the same time demonstrated just how she could do it .. . At the end of the war she was sitting with a friend in a restaurant in Paris ( speaking English with her friend) when she overheard the French waiter make the comment that” this English woman didn’t even know what the war was even about” . Nancy got up , and in her clear French she told him that she knew more about the war than this lazy waiter and she laid him on the floor with one of her quick’ Knock outs’.
She could not abide either Germans or fools."
This is the first time I have heard of her, what an inspiration
Just came across this documentary about Nancy Wake. So glad to have learnt about her. Thank you, Sandi!
th-cam.com/video/qNXKovYM15A/w-d-xo.html
@Ant B And what, pray tell, will they say about you in 75 years? Extraordinary times creates extraordinary people. It is extremely difficult to judge the past with modern mores.
Every day this session with Sandi (and Debbie) is looked forward to and cherished. I really, REALLY, would love it to be transcribed into a new "book of days'. I fear awful withdrawal symptoms when it does to an end.
Pauline Hendle What a wonderful idea. I too don’t look forward to the day these wonderful videos come to an end.
Don't forget to appreciate the occasional appearance from Mildred when they happen too! I don't want this series to end
I hope a realistic depiction of the life of Nancy Wake will be made soon. She sounds like a hero we all could use any day of the history.
a very quick comment on the wearing of armour - underneath all the metal are straps and ties and buckles. A good suit is made for you, and that strapping, the harness, makes it quite comfortable to wear. The harness holds all the metal close to your body, so as you move, it does too but without any extra effort. Consider, if your sword is unbalanced, you use more muscles in its use, you get tired far too quickly and you're dead - same with the armour. If you couldn't wear it through a day of biff, sleep in it (done that), and then biffed through the next day - you'd probably be dead. Comfort and utility were the bywords, in Latin or Deutsch or French, with regard to wearing armour.
Oh yes I've seen reenactors in period appropriate plate mail practically doing acrobatics, leaping up from ground and rolling and such. There's a huge range of movement in plate. Although i think Joan of arc probably didn't brush her own hair.
A revelation! Thank you.
This episode reminded of a book I’d read by Kristin Hannah, “The Nightingale”. A story of two sister in German occupied France during WWII. A story inspired by a Belgian woman named Andree de Jongh who also helped downed Allied airmen escape to Spain. Fascinated there were two women with the same tenacity sent me searching for more. And for that I offer many thanks. I am better for having watched you all these days. Take care. Be kind.
hi sandi, i am enjoying you videos very much. im in my 60+ s and am 6'1" and 'big' boned. needlss to say when i was younger girls of my stature where few and far between. this was before the internet and our library did not have any books about heroic woman. so i really enjoy you talking about them. but back then i developed my own ideas of what a hero was. a hero is a person who gets up every morning and works till dark - every day. i have never run out of things to do. i have helped birthings and cleaned and laid out the dead, and pretty much every thing between. to me it was just my duty. society needs its heros, but the real backbone of society is the woman who day in and day out do what is needed so people have something to eat, something to ware, and someone who loves without exspectation of anything back.
Thank you so much, Sandi! Saving my day, as always❤️
Thank you Sandi. You are a ray of sunshine ... stay well and safe. Best regards from South Africa 🇿🇦
Hello Sandi, I have just discovered your Vox Tox segments today; I've enjoyed several, so far. I've only known of you from the Bake off show (which was also my introduction to Noel, as well.) These are a lovely respite from the hideous news that we are surrounded by today, especially with Donald the Douche in charge of not accepting any responsibility. Your enthusiasm for the blend of history and literature is inspirational, and you are a delight. Thank you so much for a new (to me) bright spot in our days. Subscribed and alerted! Big thumbs up, m'dear.
You are so interesting and so lovely to listen to. Thank you for all you are doing. Xx
As a career naval intelligence man, I am gobsmacked that I did not know of Ms. Nancy Wake. I have always been inspired by those who have gone before me and hope to have inspired those that follow. We are all tested by the times we are born into. But it is not for glory that we serve. I was a warrior, that my sons might be merchants and that theirs, might be poets. And daughters, if I had the honour of having siring them, and granddaughters, might have been senators and artists. It is for our mates, and our families, that we step into harm's way. It would have been my greatest joy, indeed, even today, should peace reign and our services no longer needed. Alas, I fear that day is long in coming. Peace, and kind regards,
Love your work, Sandi. As a transgender man I may have once been burnt at the stake, but then again I'm no fighter. Love it that Nancy Wake was born in Wellington, New Zealand.
I have no idea why, but this one brought me to tears. Thank you Sandi!
Nancy is one of my all time heros
Thank you Sandi - I am forever in awe of your knowledge and ease of presenting in such an engaging way ❤️ Thank you so much for bringing all these amazing women to our attention too (what a huge loss to history lessons in schools, that I haven't heard of them until now when I am close to 60 years old!!) I have just bought a book about Nancy Wake on eBay 😉 and she might well become my new historical heroine alongside Empress Matilda. I will forever be grateful for Vox Tox for waking up my brain in lockdown 🤓💡
Another brilliant start to the day!
Just discovered this series. Fabulous! I love Sandi Toksvig.
Late medieval armour was indeed almost a piece of art. It didn't prevent one from combing their hair or performing other precise manipulations, but a knight would also wear a linen cap, a mail hood and a helmet for battle, so any efforts at combing would soon be undone.
Respect indeed.
A joy as always.
Picture Noah Fielding poking around an antiquarian book shop and stumbling on this volume about Joan and saying “that would make a perfect little gift for Sandi!”
Thanks Sandi, `Debbie, Alex and special mench for Mildred.. another cracking video 😊
A case of “I’m alright I’ve got a pencil skirt” ☺️😷💦🧼👏🏼💦💚
As ever, todays video allows me to plod on through another interminable day. However, for some reason this video has imbued me with a new sense of purpose. You never know, perhaps I will pick up the things I drop and leave on my living room carpet to taunt me... A side note, for anyone who may have read yesterday about my blocked loo, I am pleased to say an emergency plumber arrived resplendent in gloves and mask at around 4pm yesterday. What you may ask did I do up until then? Drank nothing but a little water to take my medication is the simple answer to that. However, I am pleased to say I have a friend gifted with something that eludes me much of the time - common sense! During a WhatsApp chat, I was struck by just how under used my brain was when Yvette, sounding puzzled, said “why don’t you transfer yourself onto your shower stool (wheelchair user) and pee over the drain”? I cannot begin to tell you the relief I felt, and how amazed I was at just how much liquid I had been holding on to! I think I may carry the camel gene. Yes, I did run the shower, and yes, I did clean everything with antibacterial spray. I knew I kept Yvette in my life for a reason... Thank you Sandi, Debbie, Alex, Bobby Knitwit and Mildred for giving me a reason to smile each day.
Thank you sandy just loving your vlogs hugs xx
Sandy just discovered these. OMG love them
I love watching this, but always nave subtitles on. Today the autogenerator was really struggling! If you and Debbie ever have time, writing your own (correct) subtitles would be a boon for those with hearing impairments and auditory processing difficulties.
On the other hand the various attempts it had at Orleons was quite amusing:)
Wonderful. Thank you.
Wonderful :-). Thank you.
FOOCKING BRILLIANT!!
Gallons of respect all round. 👍🏻
Thank you.❤️
Australian writer Peter Fitzsimons has written a biography about her in 2001. She died at the age of 98 in 2011. The Germans called her the White Mouse
Thank you
I met the White Mouse at a function in Port Macquarie. She told a man next to me to "shut the fuck up, I'm talking." 😁
Les Maquis? I like the sound of that.
I'm a terrible singer.....but I do it anyway cause it makes me happy! 😊
As a man, I have to say the idea of terminally floppy linen makes me uncomfortable.
hahahaha. As a woman, the idea of "terminally floppy" ALSO makes me uncomfortable (or is it 'dissatisfied'?).
Have i told you lately that I love you!
Not to takeaway from anything said here, however,there's a man called Bobby Knitwit ! ! (credits)
Why is this not a movie or tv show?
Wow
❤️
Thanks sandi for more fact about us women. Joan of Arc was no fool and what's wrong with wearing trousers.
I think that you will find, that with all of that starch in it, it was a rough, ruff........
Did I hear "quer ass with a fold"?
Does anyone know why people say "excuse my French" when they swear? And what do the French say?😂
I would imagine it stems from a time when most people didn't understand French or using foul language was assumed to be as bad as being French?
Pauline Hendle wow, merci bien, who said as bad as being French?
Hannah Golding we do not blame any other cultural group, we just say “merde”
@@paulinehendle9050 I was told it started after WWI when soldiers came back home having picked up the habit of swearing in the trenches (and you can hardly blame them). If they used an inappropriate word at home they would try to pass it off as 'French'
@@Keshexpress1 I meant a more ignorant time Anne! I'm far from anti-French!
Nancy Wake's life needs to be a TV series or film ASAP. And it definitely needs to be scripted by Sandi so we get factual narrative, not some modern script editor crow-barring in unnecessary sex & titillation every 2 minutes.
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