I have just rediscovered Little House on the Prairie...

[Fillyjonk]

Thats it really

But it is REALLY good

ds won't let me stop reading

Had forgotten about these books

Oh have just found this thread....

Went to parents recently and cleared out the loft. Found all my Little House books and am avidly re-reading.

They are currently in the dugout next to Plum Creek. Gosh how I long to live by Plum Creek and play on the tableland and let minnows nibble my toes.

Wiki stuff is fascinating.

Am full of romantic notions about discovering new lands and wittling pegs out of wood because its a long way to go for nails.

And how thrilled they were with a mug, a stick of candy, a cake and a penny for Christmas.

Moondog - am very impressed by the quilting.

es the kids are atm playing some hame involving whittling

I may have to try my hand at some whittling later.

Unfortunately I now have to go to Boots to buy medicines. Would far rather make a poultice in a whittled pot using creek-side plants and perhaps some maple syrup.

Can't wait for bedtime so I can get back to the creek...

DH will be thrilled

how does one make cornbread?

and maple candy sounds just mmmmmmmmmm

If you go on youtube you can watch loads of scenes from the series and the whole pilot film in 4 parts. My dc loved it in English as we only have it in German over here - doesn't sound the same! pilot film part 1

they grew their own herbs for medicine!

oh i shall tell you about cornbread when my amazon order arrives

on another note, has anyone come across the molly weir books which are set in glasgow and a little similar in feel? (only glasgow tennanment not prairie)

molly weir was mcwitch in rentaghost

The childhood ones from Molly Weir are def the best and then as she gets older they get less good, until "Spinning like a peerie" which is a bit annoying tbh

Psml at you lot.
I want Filly and McNoodle to come and live with me.

I will teach you how to quilt and we will get dh to make us a log cabin.

not come across molly weir

but did LOVE rentaghost

at moondog

I shall bring my new cookery book.

yes she got up her own arsey, I mean she was mcwitch fgs . early books I do like though. Tales of childhood adversity with an upbeat tone and emphasis on thrifty handicraft, oh yes. Preferably with grainy photos or woodblock prints

We have now gotten to the bit directly before they build their new house (on the prairie). There are, apparently, no neighbours for miles around, and they have with them 2 horses and a bulldog. . How then do they get the eggs and milk needed for pancakes .

piss myself laughing (or is it pmsl Never remember)

Some of those links for Cap Garland don't work. I still don't know how he met his death.

The story of him and Almanzo going to get the what was incredible eh? We don't know we're bloody born do we?

They ate alot of meat though.

Cornbread and prairie hen. Not a hint of purple sprouting or broad bean. I suspect that fussy eaters weren't an issue though back then.

I have always felt that I was born in the wrong age. I would have enjoyed being a pioneer.

Moondog - if your DH built us a log cabin, I couldn't be held responsible for my actions...puts Mr Darcy and his foppish ways in the shade.

He looks pretty damned good with an axe my dh. A very manly sort of chap. Not a fleece wearing Tesco frequenter.
Oh no no no no no no

I can make cornbread. I have spent a lot of time in North Carolina over the years (working on a kids' camp) and the people there were mazed at how I just 'got' so much of what they were about. Bushels baskets,pickles,churning,hanging around in rocking chairs destringing beans. Twas second nature.

I ran the cornmill and mill/trout pond single handedly once for an entire summer.

Oh, and managed the farm another summer.

I'm wasted here in Wal;es I tell you.

My DH gives the illusion of rugged axe wielding woodsman (rugged, swarthy, slightly rumpled) but is, in reality, a non-calloused IT geek with a penchant for Waitrose and a fear of the great outdoors. God knows how we ended up with each other really.

I have always wanted to spend time on a stoop, dehusking something, drinking homemade lemonade, waiting for something made from salt cod to come out of the kitchen.

I can also make cornbread - but somehow that just doesn't seem enough!

I am completely wasted in suburban Sussex - where can we go pioneer?

DH has been known to wear a fleece

ss I am completely in awe of the idea that there is anywhere left on this squished up planet (well, ok, USA) that could be pioneered.

I mean I'm sure one could pioneer in Outer Mongolia, but there aren't any stoops, or creeks, or maple trees. So what would be the point?

Right, that's it - am off to whittle a wagon and book a boat to Arizona.

Moondog- according to "The World of Little House" Cap died when the engine of a threshing machine exploded.

For that info, will you finish off my latest quilt ? Have done all the fun stuff, its just the piped edging that needs finishing off..

My mother was so into those books that she bought us pig's tails to roast for treats.
They are not that great.

I thought about Laura et al the way through my step class tonight. It rendered it nearly painless.

Oh the pig tails!
And didn't they bugger about with pigs' bladders too?

What is this 'World of Little House' book you speak of?? (Myessay on Relational Frame Theory will just have to wait frankly) Devastated at Cap's death. He is just the sort of boy I owuld love my little ds to be like.

Cmot,I love doing the piping and getting stitches all teeny and even. Bring it over.

Sal why will your Mormon aunt not have the rest of the family over?

Yes, pig's bladders too. Pa blew them up for balls.
(That sentence reads very oddly).

I think Ma would have loved AIBU.

God I sooooo love it.
All of it.

(Am I perimenopausal???)

Moondog, I have West From Home, Laura's letters to Almanzo when she went away for a time to stay with her daughter.

I do not want to tell you what she bought him for a present.