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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: doganjo on December 31, 2010, 08:05:15 pm

Title: Edwardian Farm
Post by: doganjo on December 31, 2010, 08:05:15 pm

Remember the Victorian Farm series, well the same team are doing the Edwardian Farm - on now 8pm BBC 2

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Post by: robert waddell on December 31, 2010, 08:09:07 pm

watching it now

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Post by: knightquest on December 31, 2010, 09:11:12 pm

It's quite interesting.

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Post by: bsadevon on December 31, 2010, 09:13:10 pm

Just up the road from me at Morwellham Quay - once took a Canadian canoe up there - was very quiet and peacefull, hadn't realized it was such a centre of industry.

How things change...

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Post by: doganjo on December 31, 2010, 09:15:56 pm

Did you see all those lovely flowers they had, and I didn't know how clotted cream was made till now.  Knew about the ice freezing because I come from an Ice cream manufacturing family, very interesting.

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Post by: Blinkers on December 31, 2010, 10:43:07 pm

Another brilliant episode  ;D

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Post by: bamford6 on December 31, 2010, 11:16:22 pm

haw hard they must off worked take to day into the barn start tractor lift round bale up to  the field to the cage fill with hay 15 minites tops done 200 sheep fed next quad bike 3 loads off  feed stop each pen fill feed boxes .next undo valve water to 250 birds done next job and so on .think haw hard there day was

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Post by: bsadevon on January 01, 2011, 02:03:13 am

We may have posh tractors but modern farming pretty isolated - dispersed community's and incomer yuppies.

Last farm I worked on historically had 40 fulltime laborours + seasonal. Now has 4 fulltime 2 wives and some seasonal help if the gaffas feeling rich...

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Post by: little blue on January 01, 2011, 03:08:51 pm

and we liked the ducks!  :)

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Post by: Rosemary on January 01, 2011, 07:41:04 pm

We've not watched it yet - will watch tonight maybe if we can stay awake. Can't do late nights anymore  ::)

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Post by: doganjo on January 01, 2011, 07:53:30 pm

Quote from: Rosemary on January 01, 2011, 07:41:04 pm

We've not watched it yet - will watch tonight maybe if we can stay awake. Can't do late nights anymore  ::)

Bet you can really, you've just been working too hard lately!  Happy New Year - back to normal after tonight!

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Post by: Sandy on January 02, 2011, 06:49:05 pm

I enjoy stuff like that, not too different realy ;)

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Post by: RUSTYME on January 02, 2011, 07:45:06 pm

I couldn't find an online copy of Mrs Marshall's Ices , but found a book on making ice cream at home from 1908 , so near enough !!!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29416081/Home-Made-Ice-Cream-and-Candy-1908


cheers

Russ

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Post by: waterhouse on January 02, 2011, 07:46:36 pm

It reminds me just how far modern farming has gone from ordinary people.  Quite a bit safer tho' - I thought that the plough horse was going to give someone a good kicking.

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Post by: doganjo on January 02, 2011, 07:49:58 pm

That was a very simple ice cream she made.  I asked my cousin for a copy of Granda's original Milan recipe that our ice cream was based on so that I could try it out, and he refused.  Don't know why.  I'd have loved to give it a go.