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Peace perfect peace
Greetings book worms,
Well its the end of the day for me and as always a quick shower and then to bed with a book,
I read every night until it makes no sense and about then the book gets put on the side locker the lights switched off and then im out like a light.
The book im reading just now is a very good (true to life) gardening book about how the victorians huge houses operated and how the head gardener fitted into the daily workings with the house main cook.
This book was written by Jennifer Davies (she who gave us the TV series for the BBC called "The Victorian Kitchen Garden")
It was a very muched liked account of the 19th centry way of life and it featured a gardener who did work as the gardener in the very hall the program was about his name was HARRY DODSON And he did all 13 parts of the series, he died on the 25th july 2008 aged 85yrs
This book really gives you an idea of how hard it was being in any part of the running of these houses by the staff,
everyone from the cooks / the chamber maids and the full set up of the garden staff.
It gives you the insight to how food really did end up on the cooks table and how the young journeymen (apprentice gardeners) would be sent to collect in a very quiet way all the pots from the masters and guest bedrooms to be emptied on the compost heaps,
Something today we never really think of,
Even the ways they delt with the english problem of getting rid of garden MOLES (a mole is an english main land garden pests a bit like a mouse that eats worms but digs huge tunnels under the lawn and leaves hills of soil all over the lawn, Its not a problem in Ireland just the uk as far as i know)
It was discovered that the smell of human urine would stop these Moles from using that area and so the journeyman would be encouraged to pour the urine collected from the house early in the morning so the guest etc wouldnt see what was happening to their body fluids,
It was also encouraged for men to urinate on the compost as it was thought to act as a good additive for compost making.
You can just imagine a large country town house and the next door family returning from church on a sunday seeing the next door neighbours journeyman kneeling down urinating in a "Mole" hole
No! No! its not what your thinking Honest "Im getting rid of the Moles"
Well if you really want a good read and learn how such things as a freezer room was made in the garden so they could prolong the family food supply all those years ago !!!!!!!!!! and learn a lot more ref gardening etc
Then get hold of this first class book,
Its still very much in print and when first published cost £9.99P but i got this one from the local red cross shop for 2euro.
Good night all and remember when you wake early look out of your window to see if anyones getting rid of the Moles
Well its the end of the day for me and as always a quick shower and then to bed with a book,
I read every night until it makes no sense and about then the book gets put on the side locker the lights switched off and then im out like a light.
The book im reading just now is a very good (true to life) gardening book about how the victorians huge houses operated and how the head gardener fitted into the daily workings with the house main cook.
This book was written by Jennifer Davies (she who gave us the TV series for the BBC called "The Victorian Kitchen Garden")
It was a very muched liked account of the 19th centry way of life and it featured a gardener who did work as the gardener in the very hall the program was about his name was HARRY DODSON And he did all 13 parts of the series, he died on the 25th july 2008 aged 85yrs
This book really gives you an idea of how hard it was being in any part of the running of these houses by the staff,
everyone from the cooks / the chamber maids and the full set up of the garden staff.
It gives you the insight to how food really did end up on the cooks table and how the young journeymen (apprentice gardeners) would be sent to collect in a very quiet way all the pots from the masters and guest bedrooms to be emptied on the compost heaps,
Something today we never really think of,
Even the ways they delt with the english problem of getting rid of garden MOLES (a mole is an english main land garden pests a bit like a mouse that eats worms but digs huge tunnels under the lawn and leaves hills of soil all over the lawn, Its not a problem in Ireland just the uk as far as i know)
It was discovered that the smell of human urine would stop these Moles from using that area and so the journeyman would be encouraged to pour the urine collected from the house early in the morning so the guest etc wouldnt see what was happening to their body fluids,
It was also encouraged for men to urinate on the compost as it was thought to act as a good additive for compost making.
You can just imagine a large country town house and the next door family returning from church on a sunday seeing the next door neighbours journeyman kneeling down urinating in a "Mole" hole
No! No! its not what your thinking Honest "Im getting rid of the Moles"
Well if you really want a good read and learn how such things as a freezer room was made in the garden so they could prolong the family food supply all those years ago !!!!!!!!!! and learn a lot more ref gardening etc
Then get hold of this first class book,
Its still very much in print and when first published cost £9.99P but i got this one from the local red cross shop for 2euro.
Good night all and remember when you wake early look out of your window to see if anyones getting rid of the Moles
