Wise Words Country House Ways

Author : Ruth Binney
Publisher : F+W Media, Inc.
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781446356418

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Wise Words & Country House Ways by Ruth Binney Pdf

This charming guide to the world of the English country house reveals all the essential hints and tips for living in and running a great house, whether you were lord, lady, maid or cook. By esteemed author Ruth Binney and with a Foreword by Julian Fellowes, creator of the much-loved Downton Abbey. Discover the rules of etiquette and manners that existed both 'upstairs' and 'downstairs', the daily routines of servants, bygone housekeeping maxims for everyone from the scullery maid to the gardener, and learn how to prepare for a grand ball. The intricate way in which the country house worked is reflected in the six chapters of this book, beginning with Keeping House and progressing to The Daily Routine and The Country House Kitchen . Since correct behavior was so important to all activities of the house, A Matter of Manners addresses the essentials of etiquette, a theme that also extends into Leisure, Entertainment and Sport . Finally Garden and Grounds focuses on everything from the cultivation of exotic fruit for the table to brewing and the care of horses and other animals. With beautiful line drawings, Wise Words and Country House Ways will be fascinating for anyone who has wondered what it would be like to be served, or in service in a grand country house.

Author : Ruth Binney
Publisher : F+W Media, Inc.
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781446356753

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Wise Words and Country Ways for House and Home by Ruth Binney Pdf

Contains generations of advice on simple ways to run an environmentally-friendly home, based around well-known, and not-so-well-known, sayings. Everyone is keen to reduce their carbon footprint, conserve resources, eat and live more healthily. Ruth Binney's fascinating collection of traditional wisdom shares how our forbears lived well within the resources available.

Author : Ruth Binney
Publisher : F+W Media, Inc.
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780715333945

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Wise Words & Country Ways by Ruth Binney Pdf

This collection of light-hearted sayings, aphorisms and traditional wisdom mixes a variety of subjects, such as science, gardening, health, cooking and the countryside.

Author : Ruth Binney
Publisher : F+W Media, Inc.
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780715333921

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Wise Words & Country Ways for Cooks by Ruth Binney Pdf

This is a unique and charming collection of cooking and kitchen-based sayings, proverbs and country wisdom. Containing the familiar and the unfamiliar, this mixture of practical tips and amusing anecdotes is the perfect addition to any kitchen. Ruth Binney explores the origin and merits of each saying, often proving that 'old wives' tales' are just as relevant today as they were in times past.It features tips and advice on a wide range of subjects from meat and fish to fruit and veg, cooking methods to kitchen equipment, all the time providing pertinent lessons in the healthier and much less wasteful ways of former generations.Illustrated with delightful line drawings throughout, Wise Words and Country Ways for the Cook is the ideal gift for any cook or nostalgia lover.

Author : Ruth Binney
Publisher : F+W Media, Inc.
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781446356777

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Wise Words and Country Ways Weather Lore by Ruth Binney Pdf

An enthralling book that not only satisfies our fascination for lost wisdom of our ancestors but also indulges the British obsession with the weather. Probably the best known country saying of them all is 'red sky at night, shepherd's delight'. Wise Words and Country Ways Weather Lore presents us with dozens more similar, but largely now forgotten, words of wisdom that are imbued with a centuries-old understanding of the patterns of British weather, seasonal changes and the behavior of plants and animals around us. It has highly relevant content for an age where we all feel we have lost touch with the patterns of nature.

Author : Ruth Binney
Publisher : F+W Media, Inc.
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780715333952

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The Gardener's Wise Words and Country Ways by Ruth Binney Pdf

Why should you throw washing-up water on lilies? Will gravel deter slugs and snails? Why is water the life and soul of the garden? Does a wet summer bring on tomato blight? The Gardener's Wise Words and Country Ways is a unique and captivating collection of accumulated wisdom, proverbs and superstitions, encapsulating everything that makes gardening so appealing. Ruth Binney beautifully conveys the emotions that gardens evoke, as well as addressing the practical tasks that gardeners undertake. Here you will find good old-fashioned advice, as well as plenty of up-to-date information on everything from being aware of the seasons and wildlife in your garden, to growing better fruit, vegetables, herbs and trees. Famous gardening names who share their knowledge include Vita Sackville-West, Gertrude Jekyll and Robert Thompson, but also presented are the voices of ordinary gardeners, whose experiences come alive in their sayings, prose and poetry.

Author : Adrian Tinniswood
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465098651

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The Long Weekend by Adrian Tinniswood Pdf

From an acclaimed social and architectural historian, the tumultuous, scandalous, glitzy, and glamorous history of English country houses and high society during the interwar period As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of England's country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tumultuous, scandalous and glamorous history of English country houses during the years between World Wars. As estate taxes and other challenges forced many of these venerable houses onto the market, new sectors of British and American society were seduced by the dream of owning a home in the English countryside. Drawing on thousands of memoirs, letters, and diaries, as well as the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls and bibulous butlers, Tinniswood brings the stately homes of England to life as never before, opening the door to a world by turns opulent and ordinary, noble and vicious, and forever wrapped in myth. We are drawn into the intrigues of legendary families such as the Astors, the Churchills and the Devonshires as they hosted hunting parties and balls that attracted the likes of Charlie Chaplin, T.E. Lawrence, and royals such as Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson. We waltz through aristocratic soiré, and watch as the upper crust struggle to fend off rising taxes and underbred outsiders, property speculators and poultry farmers. We gain insight into the guilt and the gingerbread, and see how the image of the country house was carefully protected by its occupants above and below stairs. Through the glitz of estate parties, the social tensions between old money and new, the hunting parties, illicit trysts, and grand feasts, Tinniswood offers a glimpse behind the veil of these great estates -- and reveals a reality much more riveting than the dream.

Author : Helen Nearing
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 9781890132415

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Wise Words for the Good Life by Helen Nearing Pdf

As one of the leading twentieth-century practitioners of self-sufficient living, Helen Nearing found illumination and solace in the sayings of predecessors who had sought their own versions of "the good life." By grouping the wisdom of the ages into categories that are quirky yet eminently sensible, she brings to life the contemporary relevance of some of the most profound chroniclers of our rural heritage.

Author : C. Anne Wilson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750959049

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The Country House Kitchen Garden 1600-1950 by C. Anne Wilson Pdf

Country house kitchen gardens were designed as perfect ‘grow your own’ environments and ensured that households were supplied with their own fruit and vegetables throughout the year. This book offers an insight into the digging and sowing of these gardens, as well as exploring how walled gardens contributed towards a sustainable lifestyle and often were a source of not just food, but also of natural medicines. A wealth of contemporary illustrations, material from archives, gardening manuals, seed catalogues, engravings and other documents, paint a vivid picture of the country house kitchen garden and its development over three and a half centuries. This delightful book recounts an important part of our historic houses and their national heritage – to be enjoyed by gardeners and non-gardeners alike.

Author : Ruth Binney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0715321722

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Wise Words and Country Ways by Ruth Binney Pdf

Author : Oliver O'Donovan
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802864536

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The Word in Small Boats by Oliver O'Donovan Pdf

Oliver O Donovan has been preaching and teaching for over three decades, committed to the perpetual voyage of service to the word of God. The Word in Small Boats offers thirty-two select sermons that he preached over the course of some twenty years as Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Author : Richard Burton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734094514

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Masters of the English Novel: A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Masters of the English Novel: A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton

Author : Ruth Binney
Publisher : David & Charles Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Country life
ISBN : 0715327763

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The Illustrated Wise Words and Country Ways by Ruth Binney Pdf

Offers health tips, kitchen tricks, gardening know-how, and even predicting the weather. Helping to discover that it's never too late to learn from experience, this work presents a variety of traditional sayings, superstitions and axioms and explains whether, and why, they still work.|This is a fully illustrated edition of this unique and fascinating storehouse of accumulated wisdom; from health tips and kitchen tricks to gardening know-how, and even predicting the weather. Ruth Binney has brought together a fascinating variety of traditional sayings, superstitions and axioms and explains whether, and why, they still work today. Before dismissing a well-known proverb as an old wives' tale, consult "Wise Words and Country Ways" and discover that it's never too late to learn from experience. Charming illustrations throughout, captivating content, attractive format and a great price make this the perfect gift for anyone interested in country life.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027221820

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The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust Pdf

The unnamed adult protagonist has stepped into the dazzling Parisian society of 19th century where fashionable salons, gossips and appearances run galore. Amidst all of this, his own puzzling feelings for Mme. de Guermantes simultaneously become an obsession to overpower her as well as an acute insight into the minds of the upper classes. Can the unnamed protagonist grow above his contempt for Mme. de Guermantes' superficial nature and find his "true" love or is it another futile attempt – an unfulfilled memory? Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was an inspirational French novelist, critic, and essayist and is now considered as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. His aesthetic craft and deep philosophical insight inspired a lot of Modern writers of his day. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (1889–1930) was a Scottish writer and translator, most famous for his English translation of Proust's novels which he published under the Shakespearean title of Remembrance of Things Past.

Author : Ruth Binney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Country life
ISBN : 0715338560

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The Wise Words and Country Ways Collection by Ruth Binney Pdf

A collection of generations of advice, old wives' tales, proverbs and country wisdom. It features tips and advice on a range of subjects; from cooking methods, ways to run an environmentally-friendly home and invaluable advice on your garden.