Who the hell sings on their way to work at 5am?
I do not watch very much television. In fact, I hardly watch at all. But I was looking at the Radio Times earlier & saw that the BBC were doing a televised living history experiment thing.
So I have just finished watching The Coal House and fully intend to watch the rest of the series as well because it is splendid and glorious and history makes me happy.
Obviously you can't actually hope to recreate the past for 74 squillion reasons - from the banal bits of health & safety to the fact that we cannot know everything & in any case it's essentially & tantalisingly inaccessible blah blah. But the attempt to do so is such a wonderful thing. The people they've picked to take part seem to be very splendid indeed - I particularly like the fact one family have Welsh as their first language (although currently this is causing their small boy woe at school)...
I would so very dearly love to get to do something like this. Sadly it's not exactly really possible with the bit where I would have to subsist off vegetables, fruit & not that much else; and my reliance on modern medical care might also get in the way. I mean I presume I would be able to get away avec my usual daily drugs but the risk of my needing a nice shiny ambulance would probably be considered a touch too high... *letresgrandsigh* Probably the best school trip I went on was when we went to Kentwell in Year 8 and spent a day wandering about pretending to be Tudors. It was so very incredibly splendid and fine.
But anyway yes you should all watch it.
So I have just finished watching The Coal House and fully intend to watch the rest of the series as well because it is splendid and glorious and history makes me happy.
Obviously you can't actually hope to recreate the past for 74 squillion reasons - from the banal bits of health & safety to the fact that we cannot know everything & in any case it's essentially & tantalisingly inaccessible blah blah. But the attempt to do so is such a wonderful thing. The people they've picked to take part seem to be very splendid indeed - I particularly like the fact one family have Welsh as their first language (although currently this is causing their small boy woe at school)...
I would so very dearly love to get to do something like this. Sadly it's not exactly really possible with the bit where I would have to subsist off vegetables, fruit & not that much else; and my reliance on modern medical care might also get in the way. I mean I presume I would be able to get away avec my usual daily drugs but the risk of my needing a nice shiny ambulance would probably be considered a touch too high... *letresgrandsigh* Probably the best school trip I went on was when we went to Kentwell in Year 8 and spent a day wandering about pretending to be Tudors. It was so very incredibly splendid and fine.
But anyway yes you should all watch it.