Monday, February 22, 2010
Lady gardeners
If you have not yet come across the stock of British Pathé short films, then I urge you to take a look. It has a whole range of clips on a wide range of topics, including the one linked to below for all us ladies who would like to take the unusual step of a career in gardening (click on the photo to be taken to the clip).
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Over-education leads to ugliness, premature ageing and beard growth... So true.
Beard growth! *looks in mirror* Oopsie, forgot to shave this morning.
Blimee, condescending much? And that first vid not from all that long ago either.
Fantastic!!! I remember those Pathe news vids - although that one is a little early. Its easy to forget that even in the 70s that kind of stuff was still seen as normal.
Fabulous - thanks
K
What a brilliant bit of archive. We could all learn a lot from Marion and her golfing shoes... both classics.
Ooh, I've pushed a pram so I van push a flame weeder now!
The Harry Enfield sketch brouoght to mind the very recent item of news about the Sevenoaks vicar who says women should submit to their husbands & not answer questions that they know their husband can answer!!!!!
What a cool website.
A great post HM. I would like to use Marions' weed burning machine - have never pushed a pram on a regular basis so hope that it would not exclude me.
Dawn - yes, I must go and shave...
Yolanda & Arabella - it's scary, isn't it? But things are so much better now...
...which leads me to Ms B - I just googled the Sevenoaks vicar. Oh dear - perhaps things haven't changed so very much.
Karen & Joanne - hope it raised a smile.
Camilla - thanks for visiting. Yes, golf shoes - a handy tip.
Anna, I too have never wielded a pram, so I would be patently unsuitable for such complex apparatus as the weed burner. I can make cakes and I do like stroking the soft fur of a kitten though.
Thank-you so much for this link, I shall show it to my ladies!
I'm trying to track down another short film that I saw at Vista last year. I think it was made during the war, teaching a woman how to double dig. Min of Ag? BFI museum? Excellent anyway - if only because no-one double digs properly nowadays!
Off to shave...
NewShoot
Unfortunately, my laptop gets upset if I look at things on YouTube so I'll have to see if I can view your links on someone else's.
Meanwhile . . . I once went to Westminster Abbey to see if I could get a job as a cleaner and was turned down on the grounds I am female.
Esther
Unfortunately, my laptop gets upset if I look at things on YouTube so I'll have to see if I can view your links on someone else's.
Meanwhile . . . I once went to Westminster Abbey to see if I could get a job as a cleaner and was turned down on the grounds I am female.
Esther
Seems to me my laptop is getting repetitious as well.
Esther
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