Victorian Farm Christmas Episode I 

hell yes. Between Secrets Of The Castle, Tudor Monastery Farm, Tales From The Green Valley, Victorian, Edwardian, and Wartime Farm, I always have one of them going almost daily. Couple these with Time Team and I am in history heaven. If you have not watched Time Team I highly recommend it. It's my all-time favorite show. It's a group of archaeologists, experts, and historians, along with a presenter, doing weekend digs. Truly fascinating and informative. For an educational show to last 20 years and spawn well over 300 shows between the regular episodes and various specials is incredible. These two contributors have it all, every episode, special, and spin-off type show between them. I truly appreciate their work and highly recommend watching the shows in sequence since you get to see the team grow and learn so much over the decades. I know more about British history than my own here in the US. :) All Time Team episodes ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yDScJahs4b0.html All time Team specials ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v_3gi6o3kdc.html I recommend watching the first 6 seasons of Time Team before getting into the specials.

@@billie-jobenway8658 Have you seen the series they did at the castle in France.

@@David_636 It's in my top 3 of these historical series. For some reason my favorite segment is Ruth working out how rushes were laid on floors and how beneficial they are. Before that series I always imagined loose rushes with detritus from meal after meal and cow dung, etc. underneath it. Boy was I wrong:)

I usually watch them every year aroumd christmas

Yes! I watch all these series repeatedly! I wish there were more of them!❤️

Oh, how lucky you were. That's a lovely memory to have. Why don't you carry on the tradition and make your own now. ❤️

My grandmother made lye soap. I remember it.

@@dawnelder9046 There's an old novelty song by Johnny Standley, called "Grandma's Lye Soap". It's a rollicking "revival meeting" style song.

A few richly deserved words.

No kidding. I was mad with her

"There's some work to be done..." he says.... "Maybe you could plant some vegetables for Christmas.." he says... She's like: "Yeah thanks, I'll do it all over again....you piece of ....."

Those bastards. Those fucking bastards.

Indeed. She put a lot of work into that garden for the year she was there, only to have Rupert seed it over into a grass plot, and tell Ruth she can start a new garden.

She should have cut them short. It's disgusting.

@@Nemshee exactly what I was going to say. Long nails are absolutely revolting unless they are scrupulously clean. Something that really makes me shudder is those men who have just one fingernail growing super long, and use it for gross things like cleaning their ears out.....URGH!!! I keep my nails as short as possible, and can't bear them getting long simply because they FEEL so dirty and horrible. You really need to scrub a few times a day with a nail brush to keep long nails decently clean. I'm not willing to do that and am not a real girly woman anyway so clean short nails are so much nicer.

also this is about history. They made alcool in open vats with wild yeasts and people comment about nails. I guess some peoples interest in history ends with their comfort zone. I mean we are watching it, we don't even have any cvance of coming close to eating it. I suggest if people intend ot recreate something and something the come across is a no go in their opinion changing tht part out, given risking historical accuracy.

caspence56 I wish! I know I will still complain! and you're right!

I got hooked after searching for some simple, inexpensive ideas for off grid living. .. agreed - we might never know the same long, hard day of work that the Victorians knew. ..I hope not!

I tossed my TV a few years ago, and don’t do radio or news (stopped that over 10 years ago), either. Clears the mind like nothing else, and I don’t miss it at all. I’m very careful now what I allow into my head. This is the first bit of a more “modern” TV-type show that I’ve seen in quite a while, a more modern production, but old-school technique. I do still watch instructional videos, and more obscure vids if they’re created by individuals and not corporations. People worldwide have a lot to teach each other, in that part I do still engage. The manufactured, mainstream world of TV, radio, magazines, news, etc. is absolute cast-off, mental mucky sludge. Ending all contact with it is like having a long, hot, scrubbing shower and being all snuggled into cozy pajamas and a cozier bed after having fallen into a cesspool. I doubt most people realize just how good they’d feel if they just unplugged. Highly recommended.

Miss Kim -- agree with you about feeling free from TV. We tossed out our TV & wow!! how relaxing life became...be aware you have a few family or friends who give you a hard time. We ended up with a TV again but watch mainly DVD's we own or checking out @ the library, etc. We watch British TV programs on PBS...nature programs...but not much else. TV stays off quite a bit. 😃

D E: Nice to hear from a fellow liberated one! Still, the patents on the equipment itself is pretty scary, beyond content, but so are the ones for computers, and I still use them, but watch less and listen more to new info (substantiated only, not the Freemasonic stuff sold to the masses by the mainstream media) every layer peeled away sure does help! Of the mainstream stuff; the old, old stuff is best and of course the Brits do it better for sure. When I did watch TV, it was mostly the same as you, mostly Brit and nature. Now it’s on to what can be done by individuals and how to maneuver around the manipulation going on. Lots is done to distract the people. But it’s simpler than they think. Refusing to engage is a good first step;) I am lucky, I haven’t had te backlash that many experience when they unplug (or maybe people know better than to give me a hard time, I just give it back). I’ve always been the oddball, sauntering along, not marching, to my own drummer, so it never bothers me if people think I’m weird. I usually just think they have a sad life; they lost out, buying into something someone else has sold to them, a phony life of endless dissatisfaction and loss of self-esteem, with shallow offers to buy it back at extreme prices, like endless work hours to pay for unimportant things, time stolen from loved ones to buy more stuff and feel more important to impress people that don’t even care about them at all, and they fell for the whole thing hook, line, and sinker:/ I pity them. They’ll die and never know what really mattered, but they’ll have a face full of Botox, a body full of silicone that will still rot everywhere else when they die, and a closet, garage, and entire house full of stuff that stole precious life hours from them. That’s very sad. (I once knew a girl who lived in a horrible low-rent neighborhood, and still wanted to keep up appearances for others to the point where she wanted to buy a wallet for $900 while we were out shopping. It was far more than her entire month’s rent, but she wanted a wallet (which was actually pretty ugly and bland), but had a designer label on it, just so she could say she spent $900 on it. She could’ve had a happier life in a safer neighborhood or even just saved it and not watsted it, but she was constantly spending money to try to make other people think whatever it was she felt they needed to think about her. She’d been violently assaulted in that horrible area more than once, but appearances were more important to her than just buying a little less junk every month, she could have had a decent place to live and a lot less stress. Rich or poor, many just waste their worry on appearances. So unimportant. Other go on shopping sprees to cheap stores, for “shopping therapy”, to buy useless junk, all to try to fill their empty voids that are unfillable with material things. Seems most people never bother to stop and think for a very long, or they might do something entirely different with their lives. They get caught up with the flow and they just swim along in the main stream. And that’s exactly where the main stream wants them...slaves to the system.

People that don't garden themselves don't get how much work goes into it.

LaLa Lee they show you a lot of this in the regular Victorian Farm series (this is just the Christmas special), there are quite a few episodes!

Well we know Peter would wear the same dirty torn vest&2shirt of many colors-within 50shades of gray-even though the shows are the very best the director need think no1-might notice all even horse farmers daughter&Singers had different clothes on thru 1 yr into a 2nd&old Mr.noticed this&he is serious down to the nails&seems comfortable chatting with Peter-putting them thru his historic paces

I can't answer most of these questions but what I can tell you is that because they had such high levels of physical activity and outdoor time with lots of sun exposure, insomnia was much less common than it is now, or in people from the same time with less physical/outdoor jobs, probably.

That is beyond thoughtful, lucky girl! Keep him!👍

My husband is looking for one for me for Christmas

Keep him.

Cait Rappel as long as they do not put Ruth on the cover of Playboy ! 😀😉

You know you're man really LOVES you.

Kam Jo good point! Me toooo!

Kam Jo I'd love to see a Victorian fight

PIE FACE As an American I can only agree with your statement. I can't stand the mindless, garbage that makes up our television viewing options. Nothing beats British programming! Wonderful, tasteful, classy programming at it's finest!

Me, too!!!!

Not if you actually know how to make soap.

girl_next_doorable you seem nice.

That would be an episode!

Jajajjajajajjajajjaa!!!!!

Or even the townsends to send them a package from the Americas

That would be great!!

Anne-droid Very interesting, thank you for sharing that!

Thankyou for this information. I love to know such things :)

Heh! That's an oddly entertaining little tidbit from history. ..

Thus "milkmaid's complexion".

@Paul Deland There was a mention in a QI episode about that, and it was noted that, due to ignorance about infection and microbial contamination, doctors often went straight from autopsies to births, without a hand-washing in-between. It was suggested that doctors themselves opposed the "hygiene" concept because they simply didn't want to believe that they had killed patients precisely through their efforts to help, which is understandable, if not logical.

Karen Hughes Have you seen the other 3 they have done. Tudor Period, Edwardian Period, & World War IIFarm. I really liked that one. I found it very interesting.

It's Peter's thing, his specialty. All of them are essential to the effort -- and amazing people.

Peter usually does most of the hard work. I noticed that. And he's such a cheerful guy, I just love Peter.

I think they are hamming it up for the camera-that’s their dynamic.

@calihartley2010 Good grief!

@calihartley2010 I seen you write it like 5 times.....lol... No I never wonder about any of things you mentioned..........lol..

The ones who REALLY ruined it are those guys a Coca Cola for the final bit of commercialization and the "guy in the red coat". But the victorians started it. Maybe it is unavoidable though and not really the fault of the victorians, because our whole societies get "industrialized" ... and so are the holidays. Just look at how Ruth described the changes in washing and cooking, which really showed that you cant have one but not the other.

prettypete007 You're wrong. My family and societal pressures don't leave me many choices when it comes to Christmas. I'm not willing to deny my family just to "opt out" of Christmas. Your opinion is dishonest and unrealistic.

Sorry but I agree with prettypete007 a little because it's YOUR choice as to how you celebrate Christmas and it's YOUR traditions you set for YOUR family. Societies pressures should have nothing to do with it, or your older family. Once you have your own family, you marry someone who agrees with you on how you want your children raised. You don't marry and then fuss over what should be done. If you start out leaving the commercialism out of it, then your children will grow up knowing the importance of the holiday instead of how much they are expected to spend. We set a budget every year and we stuck to it. Things were made also, even trimming the tree we all got involved and made things fun. Not everyone is into spending thousands of dollars on something that will gather dust or truly doesn't need. It's a shame everyone blames society on what it has turned into...BUT who is "society", it's US! So WE control what is and isn't expected. Again as I tell everyone...you have a CHOICE and it's YOURS, not someone else's. Don't live by what someone else thinks. They don't feed you, clothe you, pay you or your bills. And hopefully you won't let them raise your children. It's all about choices in life, which affect our tomorrows.

Time to become a man, Howard, not a wallet full of credit cards. Your opinion is fallacious and born of your own weakness. Your "family and societal pressures"? What kind of a family do you live in? Are you such a conformist that you care about society? You seem to have created your own Christmas pressure cooker. Stop blaming the Victorians. They didn't have credit cards, and children were seen and not heard. Now they're heard whining for the latest electronic gadget that ironically results in their not being seen or heard because they're locked to the screen. I call BS on your pathetic interpretation of Christmas.

DON'T BE RUDE TO GOD !

Me as well!

Mine too!

It's a working farm, so I wouldn't assume the work was for show. They did specifically mention in another series that they would want to cut the hay-grass in bloom, as that was the moment when the greatest amount of nutrients were being delivered into the above-ground portions of the plant; what's the reasoning for cutting it before that point, if you don't mind me asking? Reading a bit, there seems to be some suggestion that the toxins in buttercups are only active when the plant is fresh, making hay from dried buttercups safe for animals to eat, but that idea seems in contention.

Sonia Hamilton I didn’t either! How odd.

"Reenacting" is just for show. You have to LIVE IT to be authentic and we have too many "fake" things today (like all the romanticised Disneyland junk, but also fake rebuilt houses) ... do it for its own sake instead of just "looking cool for others".

As adults we can choose to banish all monsters from the rest of our life, and try to not become like them. I hope the rest of your life has been happier.

tampanativeson Don't let your monster define you. I was raised by two monsters and I broke the cycle. I am a happy, positive person who loves to laugh and make others laugh. Be the person God always meant for you to be!

What is a "fake" house?

Monsters are not so easily banished. My POS father poisoned my entire life.

JessaBarberella they show the cottage interior more in the Victorian farm series. The cottage had been unoccupied for many years, so they had a ton of work to clean it and fix it up.

Nuf sed.....

I used to bake biscuits in a deli and if someone ordered 12...I always gave an extra.

Same work moderately different equipment. Look up pictures of Victorian era Hay Drays. No sides on them just a flat bed.

Fyi Wendesleydale is DELICIOUS cheese 😋

Mrs. Crocombe would scoff

Spent many fun days wandering around the forest preserves near the Graue mill as a child (1950's), just last year visited the mill and got their cornmeal , brought it back to our home in Iowa and made the best cornbread.

I loved Luca! He cracked me up.

Yes she is the apron is covering the black mark at the last shoe& shoulder pleats are exact

Anyone watching from the BBC-do sell this to Acorn, PBSor BBC America so we can see it on our TV sets-as I have run my phone into the ground screen mirroring Utube(fav place) all my children have either visited or schooled GB & my closest friends were Scots growing up-for A time I pretend

They manhandle Clumper😣

to be honest she had no reason to react bad in any way cause no one knew they would return to that farm, so they left everything behind when their spell ended. And it was Acton's property anyway, so lots of reasons for Ruth to act as polite as possible

I'm 66 and if I were healthier, I would love to experience it also. Although we are in here watching and commenting via social media, so we would have to give it up. I would gladly do it, for a year, even though it would be tough, but so worth it in the end. Communication with mankind once again, looking into someone's eyes while talking, actually seeing someone's reaction when you say something....what a novel idea!!! lol Perhaps we could start a new and improved world again!!! I'm certainly game for it.

No Toilet paper

Carol Ackerman it was brutal, backbreaking labor. There was nothing simple about it. The average lifespan of the under classes was not more than 40 years.

It was the image of Santa as it’s known today..

@Celto Loco Nope. Sorry. Another urban legend. Just look up St. Nicholas-- red was the typical color for bishops in the Netherlands.

yeah, I too love them and I think they're ones of (if not THE) best documentaries ever produced by any TV in the world. Unfortunately, these are all of the series they have made (including the Full Steam Ahead one which is probably too modern for you, as well, but it's still a good series if you crave more from these guys like I do :p)

Thank

calihartley2010 ....the fuck?!

"His friends all call him Monty, but to you he's Mister Burns!"

I would be too. She worked hard to cultivate that garden with such love and care. Takes a lot of time. To see all that work wasted or switched to grass. It's annoying. Now she has to start all over again. And their time there is much shorter than it was last time.

Happy Christmas and New Year. May next year be filled with much happiness ❤️

:)

You are kind of right but the program was also kind of right. Santa Clause as known in the US was a product of Clement Moore's poem "A Visit from St. Nick" and Thomas Nast's drawings. THAT version of him stayed pretty much in North America but then was spread worldwide by the Coke advertisements so Britain wouldn't have received major exposure to the fat bearded man in a red suit until the 30's.

Cute! But did she not say “Butter come”?

I'm not trying to be mean or nasty. I am just making an observation. If a man made a comment similar to yours regarding a couple of young women, the women online would jump all over that man and call him a sexist and other names. I'm just curious as to why this is the case. Like I said, I'm not trying to anger anybody or to cause a flame war in the comment section.

Claidheamh da Laimh if anyone makes a comment about most anything online someone is going to get upset about it and say so. You have to expect that if you’re going to comment anything online. There are billions of people in the world and the vast majority of them aren’t going to be upset about someone saying that someone else is attractive but the few that are will certainly say so online and it’ll feel like the whole world is jumping on you. It’s a little more acceptable for women to do it because women don’t have a history of being so bold with their preferences and society is telling them that it’s ok to feel the way they do and they shouldn’t have to hide it but also because women don’t have a history of being a threat to men physically or mentally based on levels of attraction while men can’t say the same thing. Even today, if a man is attracted to me a part of my brain is looking for any sign that he’s a danger to me but men don’t have to worry about that.

@@cyndimills0 Thank you for such a wonderful reply. I had not thought of the threat factor. A few years ago a friend of mine was brutally attacked by her, now divorced, husband. I had begged her years ago to leave him because he was so physically and mentally abusive, but she wouldn't until he almost killed her. I had no designs on her, I just wanted her to be safe. This happens to men, too, but not with the frequency that it happens to women. God bless you and have a nice day.

You’re welcome!

@@claidheamhdalaimh3694 you really are an utter moron. No feminist has a problem with a man simply saying he finds a woman attractive or hot or beautiful. Jesus. All your comments on this video are so vomit inducing and out of place. A pleasant educational historical programme with nice comment section...except where you try and twist your misogynistic theories and talk about growing your filthy nails out long so you can pick your nose and ears.

is passionately hating on random things a habit of yours, or just a spur of the moment? I'm just curious....

@@blabla-rg7ky you name suits you. This was a statement of curiosity. So get over yourself.

@@ih82r8 well, you did sound like a born hater, hence my comment

@@blabla-rg7ky how i sound to you is your problem

@@ih82r8 it's the problem of those who are offended by your hate, not mine. I was simply being curious why you sounded like a hater. But since you're saying you weren't hating it's all good, so you don't need to apologize so much

It was called Manor House. Yes. Victorian farm reminds me of it.