New six part series from the group ....Ruth Goodman, Alex `Langland s and Peter Gunn ....that did Victorian Farm etc .....starts at 8 tonight on BBC4 .This time they are looking “at the way steam railways in the early 1800s changed Britain .”
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Good evening Baz and Ros
By the way , next week it is on at 7 o’clock , so we will have to record and do GO
@Baz posted:By the way , next week it is on at 7 o’clock , so we will have to record and do GO
😂At least it’s on BBC so we won’t have to deal with adverts
@Yogi19 posted:😂At least it’s on BBC so we won’t have to deal with adverts
No, I was just thinking that 🤣🤣🤣🤣
hi bazzy yogi
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:hi bazzy yogi
Evening Ros
@Baz posted:Isn’t it lovely to have them back
yes
@Baz posted:She’s still Rammy though
yes and more so
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:yes and more so
Yes
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:yes and more so
Today, I had to explain to Mr Yogi why I now call her Rammy Ruth.😂
@Yogi19 posted:Today, I had to explain to Mr Yogi why I now call her Rammy Ruth.😂
🤣🤣🤣
Thatched roofs look lovely
@Yogi19 posted:Today, I had to explain to Mr Yogi why I now call her Rammy Ruth.😂
@Yogi19 posted:Thatched roofs look lovely
really like them - don't see many now
@Yogi19 posted:Thatched roofs look lovely
Yes, I really like them ....but I’d be a bit worried about fire tbh
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:really like them - don't see many now
There were a few in the village where my in-laws used to live in Bedfordshire
@Baz posted:Yes, I really like them ....but I’d be a bit worried about fire tbh
Yes, I think you pay higher insurance costs because of the extra risk.
@Yogi19 posted:There were a few in the village where my in-laws used to live in Bedfordshire
aww lovely - saw a couple in Kent when we holidayed there a few years ago
Ruth’s boiler suit is very bright
@Baz posted:That must have been hard work
yes
fantastic how the railways developed
@Yogi19 posted:Ruth’s boiler suit is very bright
Yes, doesn’t do much for her either 🤣🤣🤣
Beamish is great - hope it survives covid
What is she wearing on her legs?!
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:Beamish is great - hope it survives covid
I’d love to go. Fingers crossed it does survive 🤞🏻
@Baz posted:I always wanted to go to Beamish
its great bazzy - expensive but worth it
@Yogi19 posted:What is she wearing on her legs?!
I don’t know , I’m too busy looking at the top ....and her hair 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Yogi19 posted:I’d love to go. Fingers crossed it does survive 🤞🏻
yes - damn virus -makes you wonder what will left
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:its great bazzy - expensive but worth it
Yes....
I could spend hours there
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:yes - damn virus -makes you wonder what will left
Yes
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:yes - damn virus -makes you wonder what will left
I know.
@Yogi19 posted:I could spend hours there
yes we were there until it was closing
@Yogi19 posted:I know.
@Yogi19 posted:I could spend hours there
You’d love the Ironbridge one Yogi....where they made the series they did about the Victorian chemist
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:yes we were there until it was closing
@Baz posted:Yes
@Baz posted:You’d love the Ironbridge one Yogi....where they made the series they did about the Victorian chemist
Yes, it looked brilliant too
@Baz posted:You’d love the Ironbridge one Yogi....where they made the series they did about the Victorian chemist
yes Blitz Hill - its good
@Baz posted:I couldn’t work down there
no way nor me
no kaytee tonight?
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:yes Blitz Hill - its good
That’s it ...I couldn’t remember the name
wow that looks dodgy
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:no kaytee tonight?
No, not tonight
That looks really ouchy
@Baz posted:That’s it ...I couldn’t remember the name
I do that
3pence a day
Lovely steam engine
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:3pence a day
Shocking
My dads family were miners .....and my dad did it for a little while when he was young
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:3pence a day
Awful, even given the difference in the economy then
@Baz posted:My dads family were miners .....and my dad did it for a little while when he was young
Very tough work
@Yogi19 posted:Very tough work
Yes, dad did it until he got buried in a rock fall ....then decided to change occupations and become a nurse
@Baz posted:Yes, dad did it until he got buried in a rock fall ....then decided to change occupations and become a nurse
Nursing sounds a much safer option 😂
@Yogi19 posted:Shocking
terrible
@Yogi19 posted:Nursing sounds a much safer option 😂
That’s what he thought But his dad and brothers stayed in the mines
rammy Ruth always looks a mess
@Yogi19 posted:Nursing sounds a much safer option 😂
yes and its not for everybody
@Baz posted:That smoke looks very black
yes its usually whiter than that
@Baz posted:That’s what he thought But his dad and brothers stayed in the mines
I don’t know how anyone can go down the mines
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:rammy Ruth always looks a mess
Doesn’t she just ....always looks like she needs a darn good wash 🤣🤣🤣
@Baz posted:Oh , my area
yes
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:rammy Ruth always looks a mess
😄
@Baz posted:Doesn’t she just ....always looks like she needs a darn good wash 🤣🤣🤣
yes in bleach
@Yogi19 posted:😄
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:yes in bleach
ROFL 😂
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:yes in bleach
Yes 🤣🤣🤣
Dangerous work
@Yogi19 posted:I don’t know how anyone can go down the mines
nor me yogi
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:nor me yogi
@Baz posted:Blaenau is a horrible landscape
horrible - vile place and the approach to it is depressing
@Baz posted:Blaenau is a horrible landscape
Is that due to all the mining in the area?
oh dear problems
love steam trains
@Baz posted:She ain’t moving .....Ruth needs to get off and push 🤣🤣🤣🤣
They left the brake on 😂
@Baz posted:She ain’t moving .....Ruth needs to get off and push 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:love steam trains
Me too, they are so atmospheric
wow that looks dangerously fast
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:horrible - vile place and the approach to it is depressing
@Yogi19 posted:Is that due to all the mining in the area?
Yes, it’s really bleak Yogi....like a big scar on the landscape
@Baz posted:Yes, it’s really bleak Yogi....like a big scar on the landscape
Sounds awful
They’ve caused a fire
@Yogi19 posted:Me too, they are so atmospheric
yes very and sort of dramatic as well - you notice them and how they move is fascinating
Stop yapping and put the blooming fire out!
wow a fire
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:yes very and sort of dramatic as well - you notice them and how they move is fascinating
Yes
@Yogi19 posted:Stop yapping and put the blooming fire out!
yes she is useless at times and tbh not very charismatic but she knows her stuff
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:yes she is useless at times and tbh not very charismatic but she knows her stuff
Yes, she is very knowledgeable
@Baz posted:I’d forgotten how messy coal fires were
yes we had one when I was little then gas fires then central heating
Can’t get over her mini dress and jazzy tights combo
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:yes we had one when I was little then gas fires then central heating
Ditto Ros
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:yes we had one when I was little then gas fires then central heating
I like a coal fire, I find them mesmeric but gosh they are messy
we use dolly pegs to put toilet rolls on in the bathroom -painted white
@Yogi19 posted:Amen to that 😂
🤣🤣🤣and tumble dryers .....Id be lost without mine
@Yogi19 posted:I like a coal fire, I find them mesmeric but gosh they are messy
yes daren't have one now because it causes sinusitis
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:we use dolly pegs to put toilet rolls on in the bathroom -painted white
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:we use dolly pegs to put toilet rolls on in the bathroom -painted white
Awww
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:yes daren't have one now because it causes sinusitis
We haven’t had a coal fire since 1988
@Yogi19 posted:We haven’t had a coal fire since 1988
that looks quite fun sitting on there
@Yogi19 posted:We haven’t had a coal fire since 1988
I haven’t had one since about 1960
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:that looks quite fun sitting on there
You’re braver than me
wow take that back - it looks dodgy
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:that looks quite fun sitting on there
Not my idea of fun
@Yogi19 posted:You’re braver than me
taken back yogi
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:wow take that back - it looks dodgy
Good job those guys know what they are doing
@Baz posted:I haven’t had one since about 1960
we were slightly later I think - not much
Lovely station
@Yogi19 posted:🤗
Peter and Alex have sore bums
@Yogi19 posted:Lovely station
gorgeous
@Baz posted:I haven’t had one since about 1960
😂We had coal fired central heating - not good during the miners’ strike
@Yogi19 posted:Good job those guys know what they are doing
yes
@Yogi19 posted:😂We had coal fired central heating - not good during the miners’ strike
wow no we had gas by then but a gas fire as well
@Yogi19 posted:😂We had coal fired central heating - not good during the miners’ strike
No 🤣🤣🤣
@Yogi19 posted:😂We had coal fired central heating - not good during the miners’ strike
awful times
@Baz posted:Even her clothes look rammy 🤣🤣🤣
yes - everything about her shouts - good wash
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:wow no we had gas by then but a gas fire as well
Our next house was in a village where there was no gas so we had electric storage heating which I hated.
Glad to move here and have gas central heating at last.
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:awful times
Yes
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:yes - everything about her shouts - good wash
😂😂
@Yogi19 posted:Our next house was in a village where there was no gas so we had electric storage heating which I hated.
Glad to move here and have gas central heating at last.
those storage heaters were expensive - we had electric heating in our first home but we soon changed it - electric is expensive
@Yogi19 posted:Our next house was in a village where there was no gas so we had electric storage heating which I hated.
Glad to move here and have gas central heating at last.
Yes, storage heaters were very expensive to run too
@Baz posted:Amazing how many things changed ....things you never thought about
yes and more to come I think bazzy
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:those storage heaters were expensive - we had electric heating in our first home but we soon changed it - electric is expensive
@Baz posted:Yes, storage heaters were very expensive to run too
Yes, they were expensive
wow that meat is a black lump
Where’s the gravy?
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:wow that meat is a black lump
Her carving is rubbish
@Yogi19 posted:Her carving is rubbish
wow that hour has whizzed by
I thoroughly enjoyed that. Thanks for the company, ladies
I absolutely loved that .....thanks for the company ladies Ros ....off to the vets thread