Author Topic: bbc 2 9pm tudor monastery farm (Read 5130 times)

Bodger · « **Reply #15 on:** November 14, 2013, 09:49:28 am »

I have it recorded on planner but how the heck did the blokes spend a penny if they were taken short?

devonlad · « **Reply #16 on:** November 14, 2013, 10:23:11 am »

Quote from: Bodger on November 14, 2013, 09:49:28 am

I have it recorded on planner but how the heck did the blokes spend a penny if they were taken short?

codpiece- tho not sure how they managed more substantial needs . I thought it was great. Loved the pig house

Backinwellies · « **Reply #17 on:** November 14, 2013, 02:41:07 pm »

Quote from: Bodger on November 14, 2013, 09:49:28 am

I have it recorded on planner but how the heck did the blokes spend a penny if they were taken short?

Obvious! like us girls do now!!

Victorian Farmer · « **Reply #18 on:** November 15, 2013, 12:31:08 pm »

it showed that farming was very skillful fencing with no nails etc no spuds .i think people were more skillful then, not naw i see trades folk doing work that wont last ten minutes building work etc .

benkt · « **Reply #19 on:** November 15, 2013, 07:18:56 pm »

Just seen this after recording it - absolutely fantastic - I used to dream of getting a suffolk punch but now a pair of oxen will do just fine!

bloomer · « **Reply #20 on:** November 15, 2013, 07:23:39 pm »

i watched it this afternoon as had some peace and quiet

it was very good.

benkt · « **Reply #21 on:** November 15, 2013, 07:45:24 pm »

Thanks for the pointers towards "tales from the green valley" aswell - they all seem to be on youtube and I've got a long weekend alone so should get through a few of them. Was meant to be going to friend's wedding where my daughter is a bridesmaid but we've got a sick goat so I'm staying behind to look after her instead.
BBC's Tales from the green valley episode 1 FULL

MAK · « **Reply #22 on:** November 15, 2013, 08:04:04 pm »

Sleep in Tudor times. We can not be certain becuase of lack of documentaionbut even in recent times before the electric light bulb rural familieswould sleep above their animals and start a sleep period after dark. They would wake for first breakfast at about 01:30 but the name for this time has been lost.
the term sleep tight refers to the need to tighten rope between pols that held a straw mattress. A sagging bed caused by the stretch properties of rope made for a bad nights sleep.
Sheep farmers who would herd their sheep on stilts of their marsh lands in SW of France (below Bordeaux) would virtually eneer a state of tauper or hibernation in winter. This may not have been a physiological sleep wake cycle but rather an aquirred behavioural state. There ae photos of these sheep farmers in their homes raised above the marsh looking as if they are on drugs.
life in Tudor times must have been so so different than today.