Proof I’m still knitting
This very bemused lady in a Bletchley Park uniform held my sock in progress for me. It is the first time I’ve knitted with Posh Yarn – if you’re interested it is Laura yarn in the Spangled colourway. Knitting did while away a large part of the 35 minutes or so we queued to get in much to other people’s amusement.
We got to see a brief look at the exhibits inside of a 40s house.
It made me think of a TV programme I saw recently called Time Warp Wives where there were women who chose to live their lives in another decade.
I wasn’t surprised to see the knitting by the armchair
or the rug on the sofa. We could learn a lot from this decade as everything was precious and had it’s place. We live in such a throwaway society that it is hardly a surprise that old values of ‘Make Do and Mend’ were dying out but now that people are feeling the pinch I bet it will be back particularly with the drive to get people to recycle and reuse more.
Just a quick indulgence here as we watched the film Enigma again on Tuesday.
Here is one of the huts that the code breakers worked in – not at all like those in the film.
Here is the actual manor house. pao and I were saying how sad it was that they hadn’t actually filmed it using Bletchley Manor – the trust could have probably done with the money.
August 29th, 2008 at 4:00 am
Great photos – and I see you are getting more and more Harlot-like as time goes on…
August 29th, 2008 at 4:48 am
I don’t understand why people seem to think that knitting in lines is all that odd. The knitters (at least) are not grumbling that the wait is too long. Keeps the queue happy, don’t you think?
August 29th, 2008 at 5:32 am
That 40′s house is so cool!
August 29th, 2008 at 6:35 am
Samantha- My DH just ordered a book on Amazon about Bletchley Park- and when I told him you guys went he said he would LOVE to go sometime.
Another show that was good was “The 1940′s House” where they re-created a 1940′s wartime house and made a modern family live through rations and stuff- it was fascinating.
Love the “Posh” yarn!
(we could lock FC and Pao in a room together- they would have so much in common)
August 29th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Fun! I read an article about Time Warp Wives… what did you think of the programme?
August 29th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Cool 40′s house! I admit I kind of like those shows where they make modern people live in the “olden days”.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Good point about our disposable society!
August 29th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I guess I should add that movie to our Netflix queue.
August 29th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Bletchley Manor is very nice looking – perhaps I’ll trade in my castle for it.
What *did* you think of Time Warp Wives? Our Public Broadcasting Station has a reality show series that sets a group of people up in conditions of the past – oh, I see Lorraine mentioned one of them, the 1940′s House. It’s really interesting to watch but I don’t think we can really move out of our own era. We tend to gloss over the reality of the past.