Confession. Anyone else as nosey as me ?

There was a medical expert being interviewed from his home last week and I was transfixed by a black and white sketch on the wall behind him. It appeared to be a naked man and woman in very acrobatic poses and I honestly don’t know what they were doing! Once I’d told DH to look at it neither of us took any notice of the rest of the interview.

I have been giving private music lessons online via Zoom. It is like my very own version of Through the Keyhole. Thankfully it is only my piano keyboard and me that can really be seen by them. Just as well. There is such a mess on the teacher's chair next to the piano because of all the copies of the pupils' music.

Someone interviewed on Sky News this afternoon looked as if he was sitting in a laundry basket. He’d tried to make a neutral backdrop by covering his bookshelves with crumpled sheets on chairs propped up by cushions. The OH said he was probably hiding his book collection. (Well that’s the gist of what he said ) .

JoyBloggs and oodles

When you have the screen running, select the little arrow next to the ‘Video’ option and you can select an image.

Don’t say you have a green screen, unless you do, and you can use photos from a mobile or, like I do, a jpeg or png file with my company logo.

I use Zoom for quite a few meetings and quite a few of us do the same.

I hope that helps

Thanks Fran, very interesting, 'my friend' will be very grateful for these good detailed instructions, much appreciated!

I wouldn't call it being nosey, more like concerned for their welfare?

There was a photographer being interviewed on BBC this evening who had some of the most interesting shelves ever.

kitty my mind is boggling... what was on the photographer's shelves?

Not that I'm at all nosey, just got an enquiring mind as they say...

Just seen William and Kate's place on 10 o'clock news. Nothing much for us snoopers there! They'd obviously spent the afternoon tidying up...

No toys? Or sticky fingers on furniture or a half eaten biscuit lying around?

I'm not worried about people seeing my home and i'm also interested in seeing other people's home. I am worried, though, when I see my image in the little square. I look absolutely awful.

Eloethan apparently nearly everyone feels the same way and we nearly all worry about what we look like. So much so that we don’t concentrate on how others look or their backgrounds.

That’s what I’ve been told and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that’s the case as two of my weekly meetings are at 6.30am!

Oh yes me too. I'm so busy twisting my head to read book titles that I barely hear what is being said.
My daughter did her first conference call recently and realised everyone had lovely tidy interesting backdrops whilst hers was the red fridge covered in children's drawings and clutter on top.

Bummer! Missed Kate and Will's pad. I was letting the dog out for a wee.

joy, the photographer had lots of bits and bobs and plants and 'stuff'. All very artistically done as you would expect from the woman who does the photos for Mary Berry's books.

Thanks, kitty, the photographer's shelves sound quite pleasing... I really must have a go at ours. Apart from all the books, our bookshelves are used as a sort of display area for treasured-and-much-loved-homeless-items dumping ground for objets-of-not-what-you'd-call-art...

Was there any ????? on the shelves kittylester

I am off to do a little light dusting and to wash up just in case the BBC wishes to broadcast my wisdom to the nation.

They do seem to be interviewing a lot of people now. When it got to the stage of interviewing someone whose marriage did go ahead but who could not go on honeymoon, I'm afraid I turned it off.

funnygran I think I know the picture you mean but I thought it was a horse in an oriental sort of drawing.

Not a ???????? to be seen.

The 'clap' is being filmed in Dd's street tonight and she is issuing instructions about not wearing onesies and brushing hair - the dog might even get a bath!!

40 years ago, I lived on a narrowboat that had portholes.
It was dark enough inside at the best of time, but you could guarantee that several times a day, it would suddenly go a whole lot darker as some nosey parker pressed their face up against one of them to have a good old nosey.
In fact, it wasn't unknown for faces to appear simultaneously at several portholes when an entire family wanted a peek.

I have to admit that I soon lost my patience, and was not always very polite to them.

On the other hand, people who stopped to chat to us and showed an interest were usually invited in to have a look. This was back in the days when living on a boat was quite unusual.

My husbands first cousin died before Christmas and then almost on top of her, her sisters husband died suddenly. We didn’t go to the funeral as according to their spouses they were very private people.
This is all very well but it denied us the chance to grieve or in old fashioned parlance ‘ pay our respects’
They are dead for goodness sake.
My husbands family are all like this. They present being ‘ private people’ as some sort of badge of honour. It resulted in my Mother in law having no friends at all. She was so Private, she never engaged with her neighbours, or spoke to anyone, so no one came to visit her.
Apparently the more social interactions you have the longer you are likely to last.
Compared with my MIL my Step MIL was the nosiest person your could wish to meet. She had hordes of visitors well into her old age and lived until 96. Be nosy is my manta, it shows you have a enquiring mind.

I do exactly that. Only half listen to the chat but the background holds my attention much more. Same as looking into people's houses who do not pull their curtains.

Funnygran
I saw that too and wondered. I was so engrossed that I tried to enlarge the picture with two fingers...???