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Thursday February 05, 2009

A Victorian Farm

On BBC2 on Thursday nights has been an interesting show about life on a Victorian Farm. Two men and one woman are basically running the place living the life people would have done for a year in a time warp. I am most impressed with their enthusiasm for what was a pretty grim life. They do get help and specialists come in and advise them on how to look after their stock, crops and so on. The funny thing is when the experts drop in they dress like the three presenters in period clothes. You don't get a vet arriving in his 4X4 with green wellingtons!

For me I would not be worried about the cold of the house or some of the other things I would have to do but some of the things they eat I could not bear eating. The other night the woman made Brawn which is basically the head of a pig boiled down. The meat and other bits are extracted and a jelly is made and the bits of meat including the brain and eyes go into this jelly and it sets.

The other interesting thing is the relationship between the presenters and animals. The pigs are the best. I just loved the bit where the heavily pregnant pig made a nest of straw for when she was going to give birth to her piglets.

More info on the program can be found here.

( Feb 05 2009, 12:33:16 AM PST ) Permalink

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