The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

[Melanie Sands]

is a new series on Brit TV and quite interesting it
is too.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10086272/The-Time-Travellers-Guide-to-Elizabethan-England-BBC-Two-review.html

Melanie

[book...@yahoo.com]

(quote from a review)
The peasantry, we discovered, lived in cottages with tiny windows, in
order to conserve the heat. Their daily lives were conducted in the
near-darkness; they were unlikely to see colours at all, apart from
when they ventured outside.

The smell of dung, that important commodity, was said to be �sweet�.
Elizabethans ate five times as much fish as we do today; it was
illegal to eat meat on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, as well as
during Lent and Advent.

The language was good, too. Buskins: boots. Biggins: caps. Slops:
breeches. Medicinal substances: the �powdered skull of a man killed in
war�, and �the unwashed wool from between the hind legs of a black
sheep�. This was interesting stuff. Most fascinatingly of all,
Elizabethan sheep were five times smaller than they are today.
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[neon...@gmail.com]

> Eliz writes "five times smaller?" you've got to be kidding.

[marco]

[neon...@gmail.com]

> > After thinking about it I recalled that my neighbor has pink
> > (yes pink) pigmy goats, they are cuter than heck.

[marco]

one of my dreams - time travel

marc

[marco]

[neon...@gmail.com]

On Friday, June 7, 2013 10:23:53 PM UTC-7, marco wrote:
> On Thursday, June 6, 2013 4:52:35 PM UTC-8, neon...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 9:27:15 AM UTC-7, book...@yahoo.com wrote:
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> > > Elizabeth writes, I want to watch British t.v., we used to
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> > > 80s, what happened to that? British programming was good,
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> > > we got quite involved in Upstairs Downstairs and all the
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> > > class consciousness of the English in the Victorian era,
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> > > I'd love to be watching British tv but the high mountain crests
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> > > On the other hand without the Internet I'd be suffering from
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> > > Sensory Deprivation Disorder.

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> > > Elizabeth writes hmmm. I'm envious.

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> > > Eliz writes "five times smaller?" I want a baby sheep but all
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> > > there is around here are little pink pigmy goats, they are
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> > > awfully cute although their pink pigmy mother is rather
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