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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: silver swan on February 08, 2011, 02:56:39 pm

Title: Victorian Farm
Post by: silver swan on February 08, 2011, 02:56:39 pm

Those of you who enjoyed the BBC series 'Victorian Farm' may like to know that a new version of Henry Stephens's seminal work, 'Book of the Farm' (edited and abridged by Alex Langlands - one of the Victorian Farm presenters) will be available from March 24th.

On the other hand, you may already know/not be interested in the slightest!!!   ;)   

Title: Re: Victorian Farm
Post by: Sandy on February 08, 2011, 02:58:15 pm

 :) Thanks, I loved it but will miss it, I miss everthing I love so end up watching on the computer so not that bad!!

Title: Re: Victorian Farm
Post by: Helencus on February 08, 2011, 10:10:45 pm

Thanks silver swan I loved the series so that's interesting may get hubby to buy it for me :-)

Title: Re: Victorian Farm
Post by: RUSTYME on February 09, 2011, 12:30:03 am

If you don't want to buy the book you can read it online, or download the whole book on PDF  on the link below.
It is the Original book , not the abridged one that Alex Langlands has done.

http://books.google.com/books?id=WxhJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+book+of+the+farm#v=onepage&q&f=false (http://books.google.com/books?id=WxhJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+book+of+the+farm#v=onepage&q&f=false)

cheers

Russ

Title: Re: Victorian Farm
Post by: plumseverywhere on February 09, 2011, 09:22:16 am

I might buy that for hubby's birthday. we really enjoyed the programme, having bought an old victorian farm which we are 'doing up' whilst struggling to deal with the land  ::)  I swear we are still doing things the same way our former occupants did most days  ;D

Title: Re: Victorian Farm
Post by: scattybiker1972 on February 09, 2011, 01:36:24 pm

what i found absolutly fascinating was the  farmers back then still had to have another income coming in and  it wasnt enough just to run a farm also how  the imports were starting to be a big part of life...nothing much has changed