Victorian Farm; BBC TV

mardatha

be careful with stones --if its the wrong kind they can explode and cause a lot of damage !!

Caterina

mardatha wrote: »

...Caterina, I'm a complete countrywoman and scared stiff in towns, but I wouldn't have spent a night in that cottage under those big roof beams ...god know what's living in them !!
.... carefully not thinking of things with lots of LEGS here...

You wouldn't have liked living in the house where my sister lived for a while in rural Italy, where the place was CRAWLING with scorpions! She woke up in the middle of the night one night to see one scorpion directly above her on the ceiling :eek: . I think that was the day she decided to move, and who can blame her?

citroennut

Patchwork_Quilt wrote: »

Thanks very much for recommending this programme, chaps. After watching it, I found two or three large stones from the garden, scrubbed them and put them on top of the stove in the living room to heat up. I'm going to wrap them up in old pillowcases and put them in bed to see if it works. Weird, but why not use the heat?

I also tried putting some water in an old pan and standing it on top of the stove. It got to nearly boiling so I made a drink with it anyway.

Patchwork quilt, we have a woodburning stove and not only boil kettles on it but heat soup, cook potatoes etc and at Xmas my DH warmed his mince pies beautifully on it!

competitionscafe

Repeated tonight on BBC2 at 7:30pm (I think) ??

thriftlady_2

Available on DVD

Penelope_Penguin

DH and I just watched the recording I made earlier in the week. What a fabulous programme. I agree with thriftlady it's so much better to have experts recreating the life for us to see, rather than them enduring it full time, just to create arguements for TV.

The only quibble - when Alex was demonstrating th threshing machine he showed how difficult it is to remove the ears from "wheat". He was holding barley :rolleyes: :rotfl:

Can't wait to see those Tamworth pigs. They make great eating :T MY Dsis has a house swap at Church Stretton at Easter, and we're meeting up with her. I think we'll have a day at Acton Scott. Any othe Old Stylers want to join us

Penny. x

JayJay14

I had a look at the Acton Farm site after watching the prog and the cottage is available for holiday lets - you get instructions on how to use the range etc. It's all candle light etc and an earth closet but they have installed a WC and shower in one of the outbuildings for those who can't cope:D

I think I would love to try it but I bet now the programme has been on it will be hard to get a booking.

snoozer

I enjoyed the programme but it still doesn't rivwl my all time facourite, the victorian Kitchen Garden. The gardener in it (I think his name was Harry Dodds) had worked as a gardener in the twenties, using traditional Victorian methods and the programme went through the year showing what was done. Well worth looking out for on DCD, they followed it up with the Victorian Kitchen where Harry supplied the fruit and veg for the cook (again someone who had worked as a cook in a country house).

Patchwork_Quilt

citroennut wrote: »

Patchwork quilt, we have a woodburning stove and not only boil kettles on it but heat soup, cook potatoes etc and at Xmas my DH warmed his mince pies beautifully on it!

Thanks for this. The stones were a bit clunky, to be honest, but nice and warm. Emergencies only, I think. Soup sounds good

rosieben

snoozer wrote: »

I enjoyed the programme but it still doesn't rivwl my all time facourite, the victorian Kitchen Garden. The gardener in it (I think his name was Harry Dodds) had worked as a gardener in the twenties, using traditional Victorian methods and the programme went through the year showing what was done. Well worth looking out for on DCD, they followed it up with the Victorian Kitchen where Harry supplied the fruit and veg for the cook (again someone who had worked as a cook in a country house).

I missed the series but maybe they'll show it again in view of the return to growing our own veggies

Patchwork_Quilt wrote: »

Thanks for this. The stones were a bit clunky, to be honest, but nice and warm. Emergencies only, I think. Soup sounds good

Dad used to warm ours for us in the old range oven and wrap them up very well in towels lest we woke up with grazed shins