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katholicos

ChocClare wrote: »

A really OS evening as I've put my back out, so I watched Edwardian Farm and the High Street programme on i-player - the Victorian one and half the Edwardian one.

I have to say - I SUPPOSE it makes good television but WHY do they always have to put really stupid challenges in? If their aim is really to revitalise the High Street, then it's a bit ridiculous to make it so very difficult for those taking part, no? I mean, come on, why choose a family where the WOMAN was the artisan baker if you know that means that her pig-headed husband who's never baked anything in his life will have to do the baking and will !!!! it right up? Similarly, giving the poor butchers nothing but game - good grief, NO-ONE sells ONLY game - you wouldn't have a long enough season. And surely they've got enough sense to dress the rabbits or the birds so they don't look so unappetising to "modern" eyes? Though I have to say, the very plummy woman who said, oh look at the poor little creatures hanging up wants taking out and giving a good slap.

Well, goodness me, I appear to be ranting. You can tell I don't normally watch television Perhaps I had better take a break from it for a while...:rotfl:

ooh, poor you, hope your back soon feels better. I don't watch much TV either and it annoys me lots too when i do watch it. I still have some catching up to do with all these programmes so i'm sure i will find fault to pick too!

ChocClare

I am knitting Dark Mark arm warmers for my little Slytherin to wear to the first showing of Harry Potter on Friday, so it helps to have something non-magical to watch while I'm knitting - even if it's occasionally riling. And it was brilliant to watch the butcher making links of sausages so effortlessly - and to watch the cooper at work on Edwardian Farm.

Bayleighs_Nanna

Hi,
I just joined yesterday and have read most of the old style living posts.
I have been trying to live a simpler life for a while now i make my own bread, learned how to knit, and make my own cards for birthdays etc. So this afternoon i am going to try making yogurt and if successful that will be one more item i dont have to buy. I am trying to get out of debt but i have worked out it will take about 3 years so i am trying everything to save money and pay this off.
Thank you all as i have got so much information from reading here and hope to learn a lot more.
Denise

rosieben

welcome Baylieghs Nanna, you'll find loads of support and information on the Old Style forum to help you with changes to your lifestyle. If you check out the Indexed collection you'll find threads on making your own cleaning solutions and lots of other stuff. Post if you have any particular questions, there's always someone here willing to help

Winged_one

We only watched half the Edwardian farm last night, as we watched Nigel Slater instead for the second half. I like the way he throws together bits and pieces to make meals, which is how I am cooking more now that I have the plot (getting small bits of a range of stuff, and using up various leftovers, rather than huge amounts of things - well I MOSTLY avoid gluts anyway!! ).

I spent half the time sorting out my fabrics (I have somehow agreed to make 10 stockings for adults for Christmas!) and trimmings, and then I cut out 1 dollie blanket from some fleece I had. I am intending getting all the fabric for stockings together, doing a pattern to cut them all out, and then sewing them all together over the weekend. (And perhaps a night or 2 next week) - along with the crayon rolls already cut out, 2 dollie blankets, 1 pillowcase and 3 pairs of pyjamas. The rest of next week's evenings will be doing the handsewing and finishing bits on all of those (and the buttons on both a duvet cover and 2 almost finished crayon rolls), and sewing in ends on some knitted stuff - 4 facecloths and a scarf (which also needs a button).

The first week of December should see a cookery blitz by night (cookie dough, chocolates and sweets, onion marmalade) and straining off various infused alcoholic concoctions. Oh, and writing my cards.

If I have any energy left, I have a long list of other crafts projects I would LIKE to do before Christmas - but I also know I have at least 1 pair (and possibly up to 3) of curtains to make, and a couple of rooms that may need various soft furnishings, to do straight after Christmas.

And I need to find time for a day off work to travel up North for one of my periodic shops - we are getting through our stocks of lots of things at present and I want to go before our budget cuts my salary ginormously and the VAT rate goes up across the border. (and possibly get one last present I need to buy - we're checking prices online this weekend). I am nearly out of tinned tomatoes, for example -YIKES!! - so there are a good few things to organise.

Winged_one

Oh, and I need to try and let DH understand that I have heard his hints for a breadmaker, (although we had agreed on no presents for each other this year) - we had already been talking about sharing an iPad (cos we use the laptop a LOT and he is loving his iPod with internet so we would use it). And I had already bought his present (a family present really - a Wii with conttrollers for all 3 of us).

That's not really very OS I know, but while we do have some gadgets, we use practically all of them a LOT, so I don't feel guilty. And many help to make us more OS (which is why I might consider a BM for his birthday!).

ginnyknit

Welcome Nanna, the more the merrier

Chocclare, hope the back is better today.

I watched Edwardian farm ( not much else to do) and really enjoyed it. I think people must have been constantly tired, cold and hungry as everything was such a balancing act - eat the food you have produced or sell it? I love the enthusiasm of the people in it.

Yes Mardatha Ohhmmmmm Ive done a lot of meditating and a bit of shivering too. The fridge freezer spent the day in the living room so I truly know how a battery hen feels I cannot even go upstairs as with the doors all open we would come down and find the Tv missing (yes its that bad here!) Anyway the units go in tomorrow so I will to some extent be able to replace a lot of stuff and have room to move in the living room again. i just want my O/s drying rack back up so i can dry the mountain of washing that needs to be done. Feeling a bit more positive now as we are on the home straight -- Aaaargh just went for a drink and the sink is leaking on the newly sealed floor --Ok just won't blooming well wash up tonight ...oooh this is liberating:rotfl:My sense of humour has come out of the box I was keeping it in

Fruball

Those of you that took a liking to the chap on Ed Farm (is his name Peter?)... I think you lost him to the goat :rotfl::rotfl:

OMG I was in hysterics at that :rotfl:

mardatha

Pile of paper plates and a fish supper pet tea, sorted !

Hippeechiq

Oh ginny I do feel for you.

The council did our kitchen 3 years ago and it was a ruddy nightmare - I hated every minute of it, and the fact that everything, and I mean everything downstairs was covered in thick dust for 9 days.

My downstairs is all open plan (stupid design) so everything in the lounge/dining room had a film of dust over it, and there were dust sheets all over the floor, lounge carpet and hallway covered in all sorts of !!!! that got trucked through the whole house. Luckily I was employed at the time, so for 5 of the 7 days I was out of the way all day, although I wasn't over the moon about them being in my home when I wasn't there, but there wasn't much I could do about it.

They did it in November, and on the days I wasn't at work, all the doors and windows were open and it was bl00dy freezing!

Everything from my kitchen - the appliances and including all the kitchen cupboard contents - were in my lounge, as the kitchen was completely gutted, replastered, retiled, and refloored.

Looks lovely now, and I have more storage space, but at the time :mad: