Further Back in time for Dinner!

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With the Robshaws!! Something to watch on a Tuesday hooray.

Does anyone remember a programme where they put a family into a stately home, and the other participants were the servants? I seem to remember there being several episodes.

I loved that, because, whilst I find the lifestyle of the landed gentry interesting, what I find most fascinating is life below stairs (it's one of the reasons I really enjoyed Downton - because you got to see the kitchens, servants hall etc).

@theoracleofdelphi - I love Sue too - she is on my celebrity dinner party list, right at the top!

Supersizers is on sky at the moment good food channel. I've been watching them. I love Giles and sue!

I love Rochelle, that is a stunning photo of her. I also love all other Robshaws, Super Sizers, Sue and Giles, Edwardian Country House. I'm just full of love!

Sue is current girl crush followed by Giles' sister

Victoria was on The Last Leg on Friday - you can find it on Channel 4 catchup.

She did a MARVELLOUS pun.

Thanks Lilyloo I'll enjoy re-watching those. Love Giles and Sue together or indeed separately!

Just seen the latest one where they were wine testing, an actual wine from 1933 !
however it seems the youngest daughter isnt actually 18 yet but had to stand with them while they tested the wine.

i think perhaps the family are all together now because of viewing figures, perhaps they read mumsnet threads and other comments and decided to put the whole family in rather than concentrating so much on Rochelle in the kitchen.

Lilyloo I like Supersizers too. i couldn't do what Sue does in it though (apart from the bits with Giles)

Oh and the dressing up, and dancing/keep fit bits I'd LOVE that

yes, you see the girls were doing keep fit while debbie was scrubbing the floor

I love the family, there are all so lovely.
and I so much enjoyed supersize me
and also another series, with a couple, no children, and a man, Victorian Farm i think, they also did world war 2 farm. made lots of meals out of carrots, and dresses out of sacks.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gn2bl

Well I stayed up past my bedtime last night watching Supersizers. Giles looked great in the Regency gear

no not supersize me, but supersizers with Sue and Giles.

Yes Norma with that jolly lady archeologist Ruth Goodman ? Is that her surname ? Did you see the Baking one just last autumn?

oh no, I missed a baking one

I'm a bit disappointed they haven't sent the girls to do anything for the war effort, in tonight's episode. Surely middle-class girls of their age would have been expected to do something? They help out a little bit in the kitchen, but so far, that's all they seem to do.

I am sure they would have been involved in the voluntary organisations like Debbie.

I can remember pig swill bins in my primary school playground back in the very early 1960's but maybe that was because we had a pig farm close by and not as a throwback to the war!

There's just such a contrast between them and Debbie.

Fourquenelles we had pig swill bins in our school (mid 70s) nowhere near a farm so I wonder if it continued well after the war

We had pig swill bins in my school in the 80s, but then we were out in the countryside with a pig farm up the road.

I loved Fred's face when he realised the was off out into the country with Debbie!!

My dad had a pub, in a town and they collected pig swill for something/somewhere. I was fascinated by the pig swill and this would have been 88-92 ish!

I'm not sure how old the girls are, but I think at 18 they would have to do war work unless they were at school or university.

Just checked. Single women of 20+ were called up from 1941. Princess Elizabeth did her bit though she wasn't 20 until 1946.