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#1: Unsuitable air? Author: RóisínLocation: Ireland PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:50 pm
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Is this a real medical complaint? Laughing Joey says that the air doesn't suit her or the triplets in Pretty Maids. In EJO-land girls are relocated from one half of England to the other because the air was unsuitable. Is all this air-suitability somehow linked to why the San was in the mountains? *confused*

#2:  Author: LesleyLocation: Allhallows, Kent PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:56 pm
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I think it might all be related - Hampshire is low-lying and many pollutants etc will tend to sink into and remain in valleys rather than rise up - the Thames Valley would be another. Mountain air was considered fresher, less contaiminated - this was all well before any Clean Air Acts in Britain.

As an aside - my father, born 1939, can remember, in the bad 'pea-soupers in the 1950's, going out with a torch to guide cars for pennies. And it was after some very bad fogs which caused a vey high number of deaths of people with respiratory problems that the Clean Air Acts were brought in.

#3:  Author: Elder in OntarioLocation: Ontario, Canada PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:32 am
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I do remember people complaining that they found the air in Bournemouth almost too relaxing, when they went there on holiday, so that might well apply to the area of the New Forest where Pretty Maids was said to be.

I also (heaven help me) remember the pea soup fogs of the 1950s. I know the London area was pretty bad, but the mining areas of Yorkshire, where I lived, may even have been worse. Probably as well that those Clean Air Acts *were* passed.

#4:  Author: KarryLocation: Stoke on Trent PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 1:32 am
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I have just read #A new Girl at St Chads' by Angela Brazil on Gutenburg, and agirl in that goes to school because the air in Hampshire was too relaxing!

#5:  Author: Joan the DwarfLocation: Er, where am I? PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 7:58 am
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I've always wondered... what does "too relaxing" mean in this context?

#6:  Author: Alison HLocation: Manchester PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:04 am
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There does seem to be a long-standing idea that the air in mountainous areas and by the seaside is better for you than the air elsewhere. There used to be a lot of sanatoria in the Alps and other mountainous areas, and - as regards the Welsh San - I know that people from Manchester and Liverpool who were ill but couldn't afford to go abroad would often go to mountainous parts of Wales.

A lot of it's linked to pollution as well, as other people've said. Even now we talk about going for a day out in Blackpool or Southport or other seaside resorts to get some sea air in our lungs! And levels of asthma do seem to be higher in urban areas than in rural areas.

I never did understand the bit about the air being too relaxing, though Laughing . Doesn't Mary-Lou say something similar about wherever it was that Verity was living?

#7:  Author: abbeybufoLocation: Romsey, Hampshire - UK PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:47 am
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Everyone frome elsewhere in the country who comes to stay with us always sleeps well Wink Certainly I am often more invigorated when I go elsewhere - but not sure how much of that is because I haven't had to use up energy going to work Laughing
I think it is worse in the New Forest area [where we used to live] and the Bournemouth/Poole connurbation [where I was brought up], than where we are now...and some of it is certainly the relatively low-lying topography, the south aspect and the proximity to the sea.

Ruth

#8:  Author: LulieLocation: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:51 pm
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My granddad used to live in the New Forest, now lives nearer Southampton. Whenever I go and visit him I always feel much more lethargic than when at home (which says a lot Laughing ) but as I live on the North East coast, which can be...er...bracing, I put it down to the lack of hills and north winds!

Maybe that's what all these authors mean when they talk about places being "too relaxing"?

#9:  Author: miss_maeveLocation: Buckinghamshire, UK PostPosted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:33 pm
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Lulie wrote:
My granddad used to live in the New Forest, now lives nearer Southampton. Whenever I go and visit him I always feel much more lethargic than when at home (which says a lot Laughing ) but as I live on the North East coast, which can be...er...bracing, I put it down to the lack of hills and north winds!

Maybe that's what all these authors mean when they talk about places being "too relaxing"?

I think it's true - I always looked on 'relaxing' places as maybe being places where the air is too still? Maybe being on top of hills, or near the coast, is considered as being more 'bracing' because there is more movement of the air.
Certainly, where I'm living right now could count as a 'still' place - I'm on the edge of the Chilterns, true, but in a valley, and I certainly feel more lethargic of late (although that could be Christmas dinner still working on me!).

#10:  Author: MiaLocation: London PostPosted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:40 pm
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I think EBD's ideas are derived from the Victorian mania for fresh and/or sea air. Here's a link I found quite interesting.

http://www.geocities.com/victorianmedicine/entire.html

#11:  Author: Mrs RedbootsLocation: London, UK PostPosted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:33 pm
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I certainly find my parents' place, outside Worthing, very relaxing, and am often very sleepy there. And when we were little, we were taken to Frinton-on-Sea, as it was thought to be bracing.

And I do have to admit that I never feel quite so well as when on our annual trip to the Alps!



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