"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message


hear hear. Annoying little prat, and a socialist to boot.

Baldric had his personality banged to rights...

Can't say I ever watched more than a couple of the Black Adder
programmes. So he played Baldric did he? You don't suppose he got his
roles mixed up?

I was thinking more of the abject lies the theme of the programme was
running on:

How chickens were supposed to be holy and stealing birds eggs at the sea
side was the only way of making them last, forgetting that gull's eggs
were harvested until very recently in every town that had them but that
such harvests were only seasonal.

Forgetting too even more recent events such as that the eggs he was sent
to collect were planted there by blokes whose idea of entertainment was
dangling over cliffs on ropes.

But back to the aspect of posting about ploughing one's own 2 or 3 acres
or grinding ones own corn for a family of 12 and the terrible time such
drudgery would take:

He showed a team of 2 oxen, one expert ploughman and two herdsmen
dealing with an inept beginner on his first attemp at ploughing a field
that had never seen a plough. Which total moron had the last words on
the subject to the effect that the serf was condemned to this drudgery
all year long.

He had a farm with pigs and chicken which if anyone knows anything about
pigs and chickens will know that the fields would be pretty much tilth
by February even if the pig was dead by January.

Grinding the corn, an onerous job for a busy mother of twelve would take
3 hours. Of course, that three hours spread over 24 could be done by any
one of whichever twelve was not watching TV or playing Waste My Time on
the computer or studying A level psychology in their bedroom.

Even to this day it is possible to get enough to eat on any seashore in
the United Kingdom just by reaching out and picking up some of God's
bounty. How much easier life must have been when there were no taxes and
no fuel controls and a man could walk half a mile anywhere in any
direction to be in a deep wood with enough food and fuel to keep him
alive indefinitely? There are people living in the Arctic circle to this
very day living off the land quite handsomely.

The man's a prat and the programme ill thought out and stupidly
presented.


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