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[chelidon]

Interesting article here:

Lessons from our ancestors about the countryside

For a year five experts ditched theory for practice, running a Welsh farm using 17th Century methods. What lessons for modern living did they learn?

The BBC series Tales from the Green Valley follows historians and archaeologists as they recreate farm life from the age of the Stuarts. They wear the clothes, eat the food and use the tools, skills and technology of the 1620s.

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[morrigandaughtr.livejournal.com]

Very cool article. And of course something to take note of, given the current state of the world.

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

Ah-yup :>

I wish I could see the show, it sounds very cool. Actually, it's possible that we get some stuff from BBC, or could. I know that some of the cable networks do offer it. Of course that would require me to finish runing the coax cable to the living room, so we could hook it to the TV. It's been weeks since we moved the TV after getting a new Lovely Housemate in the room where the TV formerly was, and nobody has missed the cable much. Guess it'll be another two weeks at least, since I won't get it done before going to camp. Of course, what little TV time I've taken has almost all been Firefly episodes (up to the end of the 3rd disk now, am afraid of what happens when I run out of episodes...), plus over the weekend, House of Flying Daggers, an exquisitely beautiful and thoroughly depressing flick, followed by the antidote, a truly, truly terrible Kung Fu movie co-starring a chimpanzee. No kidding. Seriously MST3K-able.

[morrigandaughtr.livejournal.com]

A chimpanzee??? Ye gods.

I feel your Firefly pain. I got more and more angry watching the last two episodes. They were exceptional. And now they're over. Long live the movie. I think I've only done opening night twice in my life for a flick, but for this one I plan to be in my seat with my H2O and popcorn well in time for trailers.

Cable is no great shakes. I have lots of it, having had to up my cable bill for my current financial shindig. As soon as that's over, backing off to whatever I need to get actual TV reception where I live. I see my quality of life rising considerably without the temptation of endless movie channel surfing.