How The Edwardians Threw Parties | Edwardian Farm EP9 | Absolute History
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Back in the Edwardian period, thousands of tourists began coming to the Tamar Valley by paddle steamer every summer. The combination of reduced working hours and greater mobility encouraged a new form of tourism - day-tripping. Workers from towns and cities like Plymouth flocked to rural spots like Morwhellham Quay for festivities.
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Forget Downton Abbey! No need for a complicated plot with these regular folks. as stars. Just staying alive for another year is all the drama needed!
Forget Downton Abbey?!?! Sacrilege!
1:30
I wonder how the ducks will turn out. I figured they would eat the snails AND the strawberries. I have happy memories of collecting wild strawberries along a stretch of rocky road near an abandoned 3 story house. Nothing more delicious; and nothing more dangerous,-- for we saw many poisonous copperheads in Missouri.
Imitation is the best compliment.
@@birdsflowers2289
“…3 STOREY house…”
Everyone's dressed like Paddington Bear.
I think when I make my grand tour of the UK I will try to get at least one day on a canal boat or steamboat.
Go to the Lake District and take a steamer on one of the lakes, they are available on several and the views are stunning.
That Cream looks absolutley delicus
@31:18 I was not prepared for her eating that entire dollop of cream in one go
Where are episodes 10-12? This series is one video a month for an entire year!
Empire day = US 4th of July when we said no to Empire and colonies?
do the Edwardian female use a yellow dye on the teeth to be more realistic for the time era they are portraying.
Merry Ruth Goodman is a national treasure. I’ve binged the various Farm series and the one sure thing across the board is her cheerful spirit (even while on her hands and knees scrubbing a floor while wearing a CORSET for God’s sake). Thank you, Ruth Goodman!
Oh, yes without a doubt! She practically inspires, what wonderful history the British have--in ANY ERA! 👍
I agree with what you said about Ruth expect she sure has a habit of talking over others. She needs to be told about that.
Ruth is great, but corsets aren't nearly as restrictive as many make us believe! Except for the most stylish fashionistas of the period, nobody did tight lacing. Instead corsets were worn much like the modern day bra: not too tight, not too loose
Yes! Ruth is a wonderful gem
Yes but there's no need to use our LORD'S name in vain.
I don't know why, but I found this a very emotional episode. The love of Alex for the animals, the enthusiasm of Ruth for, well, absolutely everything (if only it could be bottled!), and Peter's quiet enjoyment of every new experience, are totally infectious. I got completely bound up with the excitement of it all.
My maternal grandparents were around 20 years old at this time. I was imagining them visiting cousins back at the family farm in Shropshire, perhaps on Empire Day.
I've thoroughly enjoyed this series, but this has certainly been my favourite episode so far.
I really liked when Alex had started training his horse and the horse nudged his arm a little, a trusting & affectionate move
"im one with the cow now"
"great sensation isnt it"
*peter looking absolutely pressed with a bright red face*
*strained voice* "yep..."
It is now noticeable hearing the music soften when the narrator speaks
Yeah that was bothering me. Im hard if hearing anyways so i could barely hear him over the music
It's a refreshing change.
They heard the public outcry ..thank goodness.
No shit welcome to 21 century
Its called "ducking"
The elaborate preparation these shows must require is amazing - the locations, the many people gathered with their special backgrounds, the research, the costumes, the machines, the steamer, the ships, the crafts, the animals - it’s amazing how beautifully they bring it all together. Just love these! We forget all about the film crew, director, etc., invisibly there to show us the history we enjoy.
I would never have made it raising strawberries. I would have eaten too many and probably been beaten for it. I really really love strawberries and other fruit, you can keep the processed sugar!
Edit: I have always preferred fruit over candy, probably because fruit is so much more expensive than candy so we rarely got fresh fruit growing up.
meh, I'm not a fan of strawberries. You can have them all xD
There's lots of points in history were fruit was cheap and free if you could find it growing wild but sugar only came from sugar cane which was expensive here because you can't grow sugar cane in the UK. Sugar is cheaper now because it's grown locally as sugar beet
I wonder what Ruth is doing these days?🤔 I hope she's doing well.
probs something related to this stuff considering this video just came out yesterday
@@JKelly756 u confusing the fact it got uploaded recently with when this was produced and aired on tv.... years ago
Galad Ballcrusher good point
gail handschuh thanks so much! Its nice to know she is doing something!
She’s so adorable! I love her laugh
These really are amazing. They go all in. I love these, all of them. Tudor farm is my favorite, I guess because it was so long ago. Thanks for your uploads.
The TENNESSEE HORSE TRAINER THEY BROUGHT IN HAS TRAINED ALEX ALSO TO BE MORE PATIENT with the animals !!
Agreed. That scene reminded me of the work of Monty Roberts.
He was a bit rough with the shire horses before huh?
No need to yell
I have become addicted to this series. Wonderful way to learn about history. Well done. Ruth is a joy she makes everything seem jolly. The guys are great as well.
Peter “I wish I hadn’t done that” immediately pops another strawberry n his mouth
right. so cute lol
LOL I lit up after that.
It's so easy to do with fresh strawberries! haha
I have so enjoyed watching these series . It’s July 29 2020 and what an incredible job these three did . Love it as I binge watch history in watching absolute history right now on building castles and water wheels . Incredible truely wonderful viewing xo
same!
These were made by BBC back in the early 2000s. I'm so happy they sold out the license and the new holder is so happy to let it be on RUclips. I did a bit of Googling and you can still get the websites that were associated with the show through the BBC archives.
angel whispers thank you angel whispers . Love you name . As an Aussie we didn’t get much of the bbc here in the 70’s unless it was Benny hill or steptoe and son . Or love they neighbour . I was a child of the 70s but thank you for helping me . Have a great day
Same👍
The Christmas specials are always my favorite!!! Especially the Christmas during Wartime, i’ve never enjoyed learning as much as I have while watching these!!!
So wonderful to see humans and animals working in harmony. The bits where the people form bonds with their animals are my favorites! :)
Harmony? Hm, not what I saw.
@@venus_envy what'd you see, then? I saw a symbiotic relationship between human and animal, or in this case, cow. Milking a cow doesn't lessen the shortage of milk for the calf and does no harm to the mother; keep in mind these are domestic and they work different than wildlife.
I thought this was going to be about garden parties, omg the cows are so cute!
Goodness! With all the work of weeding the potato fields, keeping sheeps healthy, milking for cheese, Cheese-making, cleaning around the house, gathering firewood, laundry, etc, i'm pretty sure kids as young as 5 or able were definitely put to work to help out with the hundreds of chores of daily life. Meanwhile the kids of nobility had their childhood given to them by these poor hardworking kids bringing in economic fortunes for royals
welcome to the human experience
What's changed? Not much.
What they call "cut rounds" was what we in America call "Buttermilk Biscuits." Hahah and they couldn't quite place the bread texture.
We call that a biscuit, its almost a cake like bread or muffin.
Same thought. As soon as they get to the buttermilk, I though oh, they're making biscuits. My mom would roll into a log like that, and then do drop biscuits instead of cutting them. Perfect as a bit of salty bread for the sweet things.
,@@illegaleaglebear497
A burning question answered. If cookies are called biscuits, what are biscuits called? Cut rounds! They look like my mom's buttermilk biscuits and have nearly the same recipe. They are also very good spread with honey-butter. Not honey and butter, but honey-butter. The two are creamed together before being spread over the biscuit.
I'd love to know what Peter's up to these days. Thanks for the great recreations!
Peter is said to be working on his victorian house, reaping I hope we'll from his how to book&has 2kids&I would think a wife😉
It was very nice to be able to hear the narrator.
These episodes make me so filled with glee, that I find myself smiling like a dummy for the majority of the show.
Im sorry, but i absolutely lost my shit when I saw the paintings for sale and he said, "Ive only just started the other" and then "you can have it to be honest"
I can't help but watch this and think of JRR Tolkien's description of The Shire. The Hobbits lived in an idyllic 19th Century version of England (they're very anachronistic to the setting of Middle Earth). I get the sense of that watching this series (the music in many places also evokes what I think The Shire would sound like if set to music). Fascinating videos.
well mordor was germany...france was gondor...rohan was england...shire was ireland and west country uk.
Farmers the most unapriciated people throughout history and today God bless every farmer and ty for your hardwork
If you're not starving, thank a farmer. If you can read this, thank a teacher.
We throw "Slug a bug" parties. Slugs LOVE beer! If you take shallow lids, set them out among your veg, slugs will climb into the beer and DIE DIE DIE!!🤫🥳
It's hard if your dog drinks it, though!!😅🤣😂
Damn, I love these videos! Keep ‘em coming.
Hear! Hear!
These finished in 2013! There are no more!
NATH C D’uh! I meant only upload them to this channel.
@@HiraethRestorations Yep sure you did!
calves drinking milk is the cutest thing on the planet.
i think the calfs angery little face in the muzzle while they were milking the cow was pretty cute too xD it looked so betrayed
@Anni Runaway I won't fund that out, because I've been a vegetarian for 20 years. Make the choice for a healthier body and a happier planet.
Unless ur the one putting the tube down their throat lol
@@mountains7694 Do you consume dairy? If you do, you are subsidizing veal. Not your mother, not your breast milk. Just something to think about.
@@venus_envy I don't. There's a brilliant Swedish oat-milk that I use for everything from bakning to cereal, and olive margerine. Never miss it.
The milking stable was clean, and then you see all the poo on the cows backside. 😂
That cow milking segment was absolutely anxiety inducing.
You really should train them from calves
11:45 THIS is what we call "biscuits" in the US (especially down south)! They are so delectable and are perfect for sweet or savory additions... Or to just eat by themselves! Mama has always used a small metal can (used and cleaned, like mushrooms or peeled tomatoes sized), to make uniformed biscuits with results about the size y'all ended up with. (Extra FYI: she bent the opposite side of the can into a heart, which also works great!)
I REALLY LOVE y'all's work on English history and the FANTASTIC shows y'all create that give us such an immersive, much more realistic view of historical times than I've truly cleaned from reading literally hundreds of books and watching tons of documentaries, etc., where I was told about it... But NOTHING beats watching y'all live it! Thank y'all, again! 💜😊💚
I’m from the northeast (NJ) and I grew up calling them rolls. Though I do understand the terms biscuits and may say them in certain circumstances. But rolls is how my family and relatives say it.
I'm in Canada and was thinking the same thing. We call them biscuits, too.
I always think the Southern accent sounds more West Country and I saw another programme from Devon where they were making biscuits like the American ones.I wonder if quite a few of the people who settled there came from the West Country?
Yep, those are biscuits indeed. Usually a breakfast food.
You got that right! Love from New Orleans ♥️⚜️♥️⚜️♥️⚜️♥️
I don't know which I enjoy more. The overall activity, or the beautiful surroundings.
yeah, I'm a sucker for landscapes, as well. At 39:20 and a few other time marks I put the video on pause and just took the breathtaking surroundings in for a minute. As someone who had grown up in the countryside, with mountains, hills and lakes being my playground and who had lived between 4 walls for the last 20 years you have no idea how much I suffer because of lack of nature. I'm an environmentalist to the core of my being and several times a year I need to refresh my energy levels by hugging the ground and smelling the fresh green grass and hear the birds chirping and feel the mild wind in my face.
Edwardian time period is my fav. Worldwide, 1890s - 1920s are just fascinating. Esp comparing different nations.
me too!!
45:52 oh my god Ruth actually said "groovy". that's the cutest thing ever. I love her so much.
I highly doubt that the term "lettle sluggy wuggy frens" is historically accurate
Lol
What, you never read Carroll's Jabberwocky: "T'was brillig and the slythy tothes did gire and gimble in their wabes?"
Oh please! You think baby talk is an invention of recent decades? The documentary evidence of this type of speech dates back at least as far as Shakespeare.
about the flower language:
It probably was more a case of every one oe most people knew the code but the parenting generation opted to play dumb...as with many things...As this harmless way of flirting meant that officialy neither societal standards were broken nor physical damage was done, why interfere?
There was enough time to interfere once the official meeting was hold...🤔
A biscuit! They made an American biscuit! Though I don't usually add milk powder to mine, I'll definitely try it out!
That sheep was OVER IT and letting Alex and Peter know it. 🐑 😂 If the pastels were originally made with lead, what was used when Ruth and Peter were mixing the colors? I know the goal is authenticity, but we now know just how toxic lead can be, so what is the modern equivalent?
You can use titanium dioxide to replace white lead oxide for most uses.
In the tudor monastery series they mined and smelted lead, so I wouldn't be surprised if they used lead for the pastels.
Some other chemical whose toxicity we're not aware of yet.
Well, I don't about anyone else. But, Peter with his facial hair and rugged good looks, would keep me watching. Even, if all you showed were rabbits dancing with too-toos! What a hunk❣ Giving credit where credit is due. This is a wonderful portrayal of Edwardian history & lifestyle! Thank you Absolute History--for both! 🥰
Peter Ginn seemed like the "workhorse" of all these series even though he is a historian himself.
@@alanprior7650 not true at all..most of the really taxing labour he didn't do.
Never found Peter to be good looking...Ruth is my favorite and why I watch it
@@CW-rx2js Lame
He’s very handsome, and I admire his calm and gentle manner and his enthusiasm for trying new things.
I often wish I could Join Ruth, Peter, & Alex I am a very old soul and would loved to have joined them in many of the tasks they did. Thank you all for doing such a great job. Cheery Oh!
I know! I daydream about joining them.
Me too. Only without the exhausting work.
I would love to join them on any of their adventures!
it's Cheerio
I remember reading, in "The Hobbit" that "[Gandalf] had eaten two whole
loaves (with masses of butter and honey and clotted cream) ..." in Beorn's house. Now I know what Tolkien was talking about.
As someone who makes clotted cream, I totally understand the "insatiable appetite". So delicious!
All the people saying "the cut rounds are just American biscuits" crack me up. I'm over her like.... where do u think Americans got the recipe from?
Thats like asking someone too speak amerikan hihihi
Riiight? Like which one they think came first? XD
Something doesn't have to come first to be compared to its predecessor. They're making comparisons based on what is most familiar to them, not making a statement on order of invention. Also, it seems both American biscuits and Devonshire Cut Rounds came about around the same time, late 19th/early 20th century, so there is no telling which came first. All you people saying "This recipe is from the UK so obviously it's the first of its kind" crack me up.
Maybe someone from the same family (both in britian and america) had the same idea
It was most likely that British settlers brought the recipe during the colonial period 1607-1776?.
Wonderful series enjoyed all the amazing things they did from making bricks by hand to milking the cows hard working folk that's for sure
These are the videos that made me realize I actually love history. I hated it in school, it was SO boring. Maybe because it was mostly American history, but it was the worst.
These are *so* interesting and it's nice to actually care about history for once!
It would be so easy to teach American history through people living it, but there are too many academics to do something so straightforward.
For me the best part of the salt and ice mixture is that you don't have to waste all the salt you used once the ice cream is made. You can just evaporate the water out and reform your salt to use again later on.
Of all of these, this Edwardian series is my favorite.
29:27 that sheep looked that them thinking what the F did you do that for, and I didn't like it one bit
I noticed she cut the stems straight across on the flowers. This is a mistake. Green stems should be cut on an angle...that's how they are able to absorb the nutrients in the water. Woody stems are cut straight across. Just food for thought!
I was taught woody stems have to be pounded with something like a hammer so the water/ nutrients can get in. It always made our cut lilacs last much longer.
darkfireeyes7 wtf
@@PbTheOneWhoSikhs it's an old technique for tying to extend the lives of cut flowers with woody stems. Apparently slicing up the stem is more effective, but for years florists had mallets in their shops to pound or smash the end of stems to soften them so they could absorb water.
www.bbg.org/gardening/article/cut-flower_care
@@darkfireeyes7 That is super fascinating. I've never heard that before.
But the question is, did they do that back then. Just because it's done that way now, doesn't really mean anything.
11:57 did he just make a biscuit? i’m american i mean an american biscuit
Was thinking the same thing. I'm American to and from the south. Those look like the biscuits my grandma used to make
Southerner here and that is surely a buttermilk biscuit.
I'm here asking the same thing! I can't find any info for a "cut round"
Wait...I found his recipe. www.loopybunny.co.uk/Bread/Savouries.html Yeah, southern style biscuits for the brits.
@@carolcruz6494 Yes indeed, like many dishes (including humble apple pie and the popover - known there as the Yorkshire Pudding) the English scone has left its mark on American cuisine today
Ruth: “I am a convert. I’m moving over to cut rounds indefinitely”
Me from Kentucky: “Yea ya are.”
Right? We call those biscuits in this side of the Atlantic.
Of all the episodes in the Edwardian series, this one struck me as having the most heart and soul. I have imagined that somehow the participants became their roles, lived their lives in the Tamar and loved the people of this valley a century-plus ago.
What I wouldn't give to have been at that cream tea 🍓
It's so very weird to hear a woman in, let's say, late middle-age, wearing Edwardian dress, say something is "so groovy."
But she's right! That ice and salt thing is groovy!
It's funny because Devon and Cornwall are still very popular English holiday destinations. My family and I have been on holiday to both places and they have gorgeous sandy beaches. Cornwall especially is great for surfing so if anyone outside of the UK is looking to holiday here, I definitely recommend Cornwall or Devon
It looks just beautiful in the countryside!
I’m in the US but would love to visit!
Cut Rounds are very similarly made to biscuits in the southern states.
the other way around i d say .... guess where the guys in southern states got the recipe.... their grand grand parents brought it from europe so ....
Well any one from the southern USA .. did he not just make biscuits.. and since the wheat imports were from abroad its possible this recipe is an import also
Next time I try to explain to a Brit what a "biscuit" is in the US, instead of saying it's a savory scone, I'll say its like a Devonshire cut round.
My great-grandmother, when she was working quickly and didn't want to be bothered rolling out, would pinch the rounds off the log of dough. They were called "cat-head" biscuits, which seems to have been a common term in the local area.
Yum!
@@ellenseltz4548 Same! My mom would pinch a bit, roll it in her palms to get it into a ball, and flatten them down on the pan. Done. Dad talks about his mom making cat-heads, too. Eastern NC family.
When lead training your horse, or pony. When they step toward you, slack the lead. This lets off pressure, and rewards the behavior. Yes keeping a tight lead can work, but a slack lead will allow the horse to relax. If they stop, then gently tighten the lead again until the horse walks along again. Patients is important. Good work though Alex.
Peter looks like Gilbet Blythe from Anne With An E!!
Mixing igments and dyes is something Ruth could have learned from her husband.
I love these series! Please keep uploading them, they're so fascinating! Wildly different from my modern-day city life--I never thought I'd be so interested watching people make rope or keep pests away from strawberries.
19:45
And there's his duck... Not "and there's his hen" but and there's his duck...that's the funniest thing I've heard all week!
Anybody: Hey Peter, we've got some-
Peter: I'll eat it later.
Peter a man after my owne heart 😊
lol In America we call those buttermilk biscuits. Didn't look a lot different in the ingredients.
I was thinking the same thing! I came here to say that. I'd love to try them with fresh clotted cream and homemade preserves, though. It sounds amazing.
yup American here, butter milk biscuits for sure
I was watching him list the ingredients and all of a sudden my American mind went, “biscuits. They’re biscuits. I’m watching British people marvel over biscuits. This is precious.”
Not enough butter tho
@@rinnyrindawg 'biscuits' are something very different overseas. More like what you would call a 'cookie'. But scones or breads like this aren't uncommon, either.
Hello Mr. Steamboat Pilot! **swoon**
Edit: It so gets me whenever they sing their national anthem, and I'm not even British. There was an episode in their WWII series where it was sung that had me sobbing.
Maybe it's because it's so simple and heartfelt, especially when common people sing it. It's a good thing for a nation to have a head of state that all the people can rally around apart from politics and personal differences. So many handsome men in this series! : D
I love how this is shot.
i have the language of the flowers book, its so beautiful, and its the perfect place to press flowers!
Love these series. Wonderful watching what everyday people went through to make a living.
Though, certainly glad the tradition of “Empire Day” is no longer a thing. Just goes to show, how colonialism and the superiority of Europeans inculcated systemic racism, exploitation and discrimination throughout the 19th, into the 20th centuries and still in need of healing today.
imagine living like this for a year, without all our technologies that we dearly enjoy on daily basis. I think that that would be an awesome break for everyone
I can’t even being to imagine how happy Mr. Akton must’ve been when they called with the idea to do this. Then came in and really started doing it! I mean, this is just incredible. TRULY incredible.
How amazing is it that there are so many knowledgeable and skilled people, still working true to the original art of it all?
This and The Edwardian series, have been real a pleasure to binge on. Thank you so much for making it accessible and free to me, an American, who now finds herself thinking in an English accent occasionally lmao
uick remedy for slugs and smails. place out bottles of beer with the dregs left in the bottom of the bottles. slugs and snails love the smell of hops and brewers yeast and will climb into the bottle drink the beer, get drunk, fall in the beer and drown. no more snails or slugs. ask any local taverns to collect left over beer, ale, and mead, or scrumpy after the end of the night to be collected the nextmorning for you.
The bread the chef made is what we call biscuits in the USA. They are a staple in the south. We particularly like them for breakfast. Check out this video. I think you will enjoy it: ruclips.net/video/75LbQRW9NhE/видео.html
The art in the guestbook is tremendous!
It was cute when the sheep shook off the mixture and then looked at them and baaa'd. 🤣 It was like he was telling them off.
I made clotted cream once with a modern recipe. I love seeing the traditional version!
I’ve been over-watching. This is how I’ve noticed that Peter seems a bit off his feed for most of the Tudor series. I hope he pulled through what ever obvious crisis he’s enduring here.
Excellent work! Your films are more exotic and fascinating than anything I've ever seen on RUclips. Thank you so much!
I remember watching this year ago on bbc2 and becoming obsessed with Alex hes so adorable
We southern United States puddle jumping rebels call those butter milk biscuits. I love this series.
29:29 that sheep was ma a a ad af
Peter shouting “COME-on…COME-on….COME-on!” At top volume repeatedly at the cows can NOT be calming to them. 😆 it seems to be a habit that he picked up in previous series, and no one has corrected him on. Cows have sensitive hearing and shouting at them will only make them behave more stubbornly
I noticed that too
Someone mentions it when he's with oxen in one of the first series. But they don't say it to him, they say it to the audience while he's put in the field. 😅
What always gets me about these episodes is when some one is preparing food, they make a small dish of it, but when it's time to serve, huge mounds of food keep magically appearing. It's like they have secret hotel kitchen with about 6 cooks working their collective butt off.
not allways ... did u see that episode where they caught a stingray? did u see any other part of fish on the plates apart of the cuts Ruth made of the stingray earlier? nope
Amerika got it’s Biskuit recipe from Britain 🇬🇧 and my taste buds are eternally thankful
TRADITIONAL CLOTTED CREAM! My Cornish heart must have it!
Traditional heart disease, to follow.
I wonder what Peter is up to. I've developed a bit of a crush of him watching these shows.
36:30 this scene looks oddly familiar. Two people sitting around with their faces covered. 😷
1:31: you totally missed the opportunity of the calf saying: MAAAAAAYYY 😂
When I was a child and we milked our cattle (by hand) would go into a headlock Stanchion (it was just a drop stanchion) made out of 2x4s.
Our bucket was also covered with a cloth so no hair or anything dropped into it while we were milking...your milk was strained even before it got into the bucket.
And this was 60 years ago.
I *think* that what they did to the sheep to control parasites was not drenching but dipping. Drenching is making the animal drink a large amount of water or other liquid for its health, while dipping is applying anti-parasite liquids to its fleece. On a big farm, the sheep would be actually driven one by one into a chute dug into the ground and filled with the parasite killing liquid (sheep dip) so it completely dampens their fleece. Shepherds, let me know if I'm right or wrong! :o)
17:16 baby cow says "I'll show you how this is done" 😂
I love these shows, Ruth is amazing, the guys too!!!
In Canada we still celebrate Empire day as Victoria day on May 24th. It's considered the beginning of summer. It's a national holiday and most cities and towns have parades, public fireworks and outdoor events like concerts.
and everything is hecking closed! 🤣💩
No empire so no empire day. We do have may bank Holliday instead. We have 4 to 7 weeks paid annual Holliday’s and 6 ish bank Holliday’s The majority only have 4 weeks. And no one needs two jobs. Unless you can only get part time jobs. And that’s rare
@@garygalt4146 Are you still talking about Canada? Because what you said is not true at all actually, many full-time jobs don't pay a livable wage. There are a lot more contract and part-time jobs than there are full-time. Vacation isn't automatically paid, plenty of people get paid by the hour so if they don't work, they don't get paid.
@Celto Loco You know how I know you're a troll? Because you 1) don't know where everyone else in Canada lives, 2) don't know everything about everyone else in Canada, and 3) know nothing about how hard people work, and yet get called lazy, and yet despite all that, you seem to have formed a rather strong opinion. If the median price of a house is $ 1 million or more, the average person, not just lazy people, can't possibly afford it. The average single person income is about $51,000. It's basic math.
It's not right to celebrate Empire Day
I wish I had known times and experiences like this. I long for a time I never lived. Northern Arizona USA
I believe you. I, too, long for such a lifestyle (in nature, surrounded by green grass, clear-water lakes, mountains, happy people and lots and lots of poultry and fauna in general). I have grown up in the countryside in the 80s and early 90s surrounded by nature and livestock, I have played in the dusty roads of the countryside, eating bread, cheese, sugar and biting from tomatoes like they were apples, I rarely washed my hands before eating, every week I caught frogs, lizards and grasshoppers with my bare hands and never EVER in my entire life had I been sick or ill from doing any of these even though - by nature - I'm a pretty sensitive guy with a shaky immune system. I miss those days like no one can imagine...
Take a road trip to Western Oregon.
Anywhere west of the Willamette valley and east of highway 101.
I lived in a town with a guy who would drive his horse drawn carriage to people's houses to deliver fresh milk from his cows.
Money was hardly ever a problem for anyone.
Bartering goods or services was usually better than cash.
I always had someone offer to shear my sheep for me, in trade for some tractor work or produce.
Salmon and wild mushrooms in the fall... Nettles and wild ginger in the spring.
It took me years to learn all of the edible native fruits.
When you're walking in the forest, you can safely drink from the many crystal clear springs running down the mountainside.
@@kaisersose5549 I've felt for many years now that THIS is the direction towards which society must head if it was to ever evolve. I've always believed that highly civilized society don't use money (or any financial compensation)
Not without modern antibiotics.
@@deaniej2766 spaghnum moss for external wounds. Works like a charm for me.
Peter could lure me into a windowless white van, nvm a paddle boat #easilykidnappedbyPeter
Too long in lock down, eh?😂
Nah I agree. Settle down on a small farm.
I love the Americans here, realising they recognize the recipe. But framing it like the Brits are doing something American.
Its cute like a grandchild of 5 telling his grandpa, that the old man takes after the kid. And not the other way around.
My biggest takeaway was sailing to the arctic for a few ice cubes when all i have to do now is plug in to the socket.
I love these shows it's like being a kid again with my grandparents.
I would have thought to apply the lime coughstic soda mixture would be done without livestock in the area save their little webbed footies from chemical burns it's also going to change the ph of the soil and potentially burn the roots of your plants not to mention its non selective so your benificial helpers like worms will also be burned.
Yes, well, changing the ph of the soil is what they want to do. The soil's too acidic. I was concerned when they were spreading it, that lime dust was getting on the horse.
My family farm is very sandy (western Michigan, lower peninsula) and the neighbor who farms the land has to add lime every couple of years. He tests, according to Ag Dept. regulations. The use a product called agricultural lime. It's just limestone, crushed very fine with newer technologies developed since mid 20th century.
OP is talking about the extra-caustic slug-repellent mixture dribbled around the strawberry beds I believe, rather than the just plain quicklime used as field fertilizer?
@@anna_in_aotearoa3166 slaked lime, or ground limestone. Quick lime is limestone that has been burned to drive the water out of the lime compound. Quick lime is used in traditional mortar/cement making; or to keep down the flies & stench in the cesspit under the outhouse; or to dry up and help decay the corpse of the dead cow or horse in the outer pasture.