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I love this programme - it really inspires me to actually DO things.
NannaC - What a lovely tale about your things being used on the programme - you should post a picture of your kitchen on the 'Where the OS magic happens' thread, I bet we would all be envious!
I will be getting the DVD of this, but am also tempted by the book. Does anyone have it yet? What is it like?
I notice on Ruth Goodman's website that she does workshops - I would be keen to go to one of these, I think she is so good at what she does. Would like to get her on here!We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment0 -
Is the recipe for lip salve in the book ??0
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I am really enjoying this series, i thought it was lovely how 'touched' and emotional the men became when they delivered the lambs.
Ruth is such an inspiration in her very approach to cooking and home remedies etc...loved the way she knocked up that fence too...what a woman....my fence in the back yard is falling to bits and she can come and fix that any day for me, i wouldn't know where to start!
It might not be the thing to say here but i have always been intrigued about how women 'dealt' with their menstrual cycle in that 'period' so i found it rather fascinating...was i right in hearing that she said dry moss may have been gathered and placed inside the sanitary towel, as it was very absorbent?
Think i'll stick to my always.....but i am thinking about alternative sanitary protection. But i'm thinking more of washable pads, rather than moss filled cotton ones
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Blairweech wrote: »...
I will be getting the DVD of this, but am also tempted by the book. Does anyone have it yet? What is it like?
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I have the book and I'm really pleased with it, it covers so many things. I paid £7.99 at thebookpeople, there's a link and also a voucher for free delivery mentioned earlier in this thread. I'd love her to join us on here, she could teach us so much
Is the recipe for lip salve in the book ??
yes it is, also her recipe for pheasant hash, which is not like hash (made with potatoes) that I'm used to and some other recipes. ... don't throw the string away. You always need string!
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Im just loving the series,great tv!Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. :beer:0
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I too watched the series with especial interest as I am in the middle of 'The Victorian Age ' at Uni. (Last week our lecture was on the poor in the 19th century.It was a real eye-opener.Next Monday is all about the workhouse.
Most of which eventually became our hospitals.)
I find the series facinating and a great glimse at a mainly forgotten age.Watching the men help the lambs being born was amazing . The lip salve looked great and not that hard to do I would have thought if you had the materials at hand .I am going to drop large hints about the book for my birthday.Can't wait for next Thursdays episode.Don't think I fancy the bathing arrangements though, I've got too used to central heating0 -
Yes best thing on telly at the moment. We don't realise how easy our lives are compared to those days. I found it amazing that a farm worker could be arrested for accidently killing a pheasant on the land he worked on. My mother was brought up in the early 1900's and she used to say there was no such thing as the good old days, what with large families of children often left as orphan's, poverty and hardship. I am enjoying the os side of things though , I agree she is quite a woman, learning a lot from this. Everyone is so enthusiastic even the animals look happy, that horse is adorable,”Pour yourself a drink, (tea for me now)
Put on some lipstick
and pull yourself together”
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I'm loving the programme too. I want more cooking though! I know it's about running a farm so there is loads of other stuff to cover.0
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It made me cry when the lamb's were born.
I thought last night's programme was the best yet.
I could'nt fancy the cosmetic products though,what with being made with lard and mutton fat.
What was that stuff beginning with an A that she used to colour the lipsalve with.I did'nt quite catch the word.
The sanitary pad was great,who'd of ever thought of using dried moss like that.
I've always wondered what they did before that for their periods,guess that's why they used to take to their beds for a few days.
I think I'm going to have to get the book too.0 -
This programme is fascinating, I will have to get the DVD when it comes out, maybe OH will buy me the book for my birthday( hint hint).
So much of the household stuff reminds me of my Grand mother......she was born in 1886, so was a child towards the end of the era, but her mother taught her well, and she in turn taught me lots of little tips.
The laundry episode in particular reminded me so much of life in the 40's.....thanks to the war I was brought up in an all female household. Washing was done in a dolly tub with a posser, whites were boiled in the copper, then put through the mangle, rinsed ,again in the dolly tub with a generous amount of blue (which incidentally she also used in the final rinse on her hair) and then through the wringer again and then hung on the line to dry. Sheets were soaked in the bath overnight and boiled in the copper, then possed before getting the same treatment. She did have an electric iron which was screwed into the light fitting!!!!! it was only in latter years that we had one with a plug on to go in a socket on the wall.
Washing machines came in during the latter part of her life, but she would not use one, said they ruined the clothes....
I do remember her saying that she and her sisters used layers of old towels in sanni bags, which were soaked, and boiled when they had their periods. The bags were made out of old sheets and had loops on which a long piece of tape went through and was tied round their waists, the forerunners of the belts of my teenage years.........
Drying the washing in winter was a nightmare, often it was not fit to put it on the line, so it was dried on a clothes horse in the sitting room.....so the room got very steamy!!!!Was 13st 8 lbs,Now 12st 11 Lost 10 1/4lbs since I started on my diet.0
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