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Victorian Farm

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Kathyis6incheshigh · 16/01/2009 10:22

No-one else watching this then?

I love it so much. Historical reality tv with people who actually know lots and are good-humoured and cheerful and polite to each other.

And you learn so much, all about mangel wurzels and chaff cutters!

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Katisha · 29/01/2009 22:45

Are they actually living there all year. dressed up as Victorians? (Sorry probably thick question)

HarleyQuinn · 30/01/2009 08:01

Yes Katisha they are, its an awesome programme, I loved the Tudor one they did awhile back.

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Kathyis6incheshigh · 30/01/2009 13:26

In the last one IIRC they were not supposed to be living there because of health and safety but I bet they actually were....

In this one they have shown us Ruth's bedroom but not where the men sleep, which makes me wonder a bit.

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HarleyQuinn · 31/01/2009 14:13

hmmm maybe, I wonder why the other woman and bloke didnt do this one, maybe they couldnt fit them all in the house

rubytwokids · 01/02/2009 00:56

Hands off, Burningbright - he is all mine! and also .

skramble · 01/02/2009 01:20

PIL have been watching it all and they tell me the woman is staying in the house but not the men.

Aniyan · 01/02/2009 14:52

I read somewhere (Radio Times maybe?) that they spent 3-4 days a week living as Victorians on the farm, but didn't sleep in the cottage. They stayed overnight somewhere else on the farm - I think Ruth spent one night in the cottage because she'd spent so long getting the place ready she wanted to try it out.

MamaHobgoblin · 12/02/2009 21:39

Wanted to start a VF thread and then discovered that it already has a small, select fangroup!

This is the last episode and I've missed a lot of it, because it tends to clash with DS's bed'n'boobtime. I'm going to miss it - it's a light year away from the sort of historical reality show where the participants whinge about doing without their IPods etc. I love this sort of thing, where you get all sorts of obscure crafters coming out of the woodwork.

Am gutted to hear that they're not really sleeping on the farm, though!

ABetaDad · 12/02/2009 21:51

I have been watching it a bit. Very good.

I am a farmer's son and my Dad actually used some of the implements and did the stuff they do on the programme when he was very young. At the age of 8 he was routinely sent to the fields with a horse to do harrowing although they had a tractor as well.

What is striking about the programme is just how little food is producd by each man hour of work. This programme has a powerful salutory lesson for everyone who thinks that we can go organic and low tech in farming.

One man today can plough and plant 50 hectares in a day with one massive machine. Just 25 years ago that would have been 10 hectares (I have actually done it) and it would have been just 1 hectare using a horse only 75 years ago.

LoveMyLapTop · 12/02/2009 22:00

I have loved this programme, has been a real gem! Sorry that it has finished.

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Kathyis6incheshigh · 13/02/2009 09:47

I loved the bit last night about the teenage straw plaiters wandering around in girl gangs intimidating people but no-one could say anything because they were working.

Ruth makes a v good tv chef methinks.

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LoveMyLapTop · 13/02/2009 12:00

I think Ruth is awesome and fancy the curly haired farm hand.

BurningBright · 13/02/2009 14:36

Really sad this has finished. No more weekly fix of the lovely Peter. He has the most heavenly voice. And I bet he's good with his hands!

BurningBright · 13/02/2009 14:39

And of course, the fascinating insights into Victorian farming life are edifying and though-provoking too.

Now back to thoughts of fun and frolics inthe haybarn...

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Kathyis6incheshigh · 13/02/2009 14:41

Whilst wearing your handmade Victorian summer dress and home-plaited straw hat, of course.

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MrsTittleMouse · 13/02/2009 14:47

It was all over too soon though! I wanted to hear more about what they had thought of their experience. It makes me a bit when this kind of fab programming only gets 4 episodes whereas stupid regular-style reality stuff seems to go on forever.

I missed the very start of episode one - the three presenters were great, but where did they find them? Alex (?) said afterwards that he was a historian, but what about the other two? How did Ruth cope with being on the farm all the time when she has a daughter?

Sorry, lots of questions!

EssieW · 13/02/2009 14:49

also been a fan of this! It's been genuinely interesting and moves at a different pace to other programmes. Ruth's insights have been particularly interesting - all of them are really good at explaining what's going on...

BurningBright · 13/02/2009 16:00

Peter, Alex and Ruth are all historians or archaeologists from what I understand. They were involved in another, equally lovely programme a few years back which recreated a seventeenth century farm.

I guess the fact that they are 'history professionals' explains their lack of prima donna histrionics in the face of adversity. The whole thing was a learning experience for them, even when things were going wrong and their enthusiasm for the subject just made the whole programme a joy to watch.

As, of course, did the lovely Peter...

LoveMyLapTop · 13/02/2009 16:15

Peter the farm hand
Hmmmmmmm..........

ABetaDad · 14/02/2009 16:12

Hey - I just noticed Victorian Farm is on again tonight at 6.30 p.m. on BBC2.

Just in case anybody needed a 'review'.

LoveMyLapTop · 14/02/2009 18:19

It clashes with the rugby!
Will Sky + it!

KayHarker · 14/02/2009 22:34

It's out on DVD soon - and the Green valley series already is.

ThriceWoe · 15/02/2009 13:37

Alex and Ruth both have their own websites, if you google. Sadly, the lovely Peter doesn't, as far as I can see - but there is a picture of him on Alex's site, looking strangely fetching in a pair of 17th century breeches!

bronze · 16/02/2009 14:03

but there is a picture of him on Alex's site, looking strangely fetching in a pair of 17th century breeches!

I wasn't going to bother looking til you said that.

Are they as tight as the cricket trousers?

BurningBright · 17/02/2009 15:40

Perhaps we should start a Peter Appreciation thread.

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