The Rural Museum

While Charlotte was with us we took her to see the Rural museum ,which you will be  hearing more about ,I have been invited to help out here and of course I said yes please ! What a bonus, the day we went they had a Thatching demontration going on ,it was extremely interesting ,and we learned such a lot about this ancient craft ,for instance a young man has to serve a seven year apprentice ship to become a Thatcher and then a further two years as an improver ,wow you could become a Doctor or a vet in less time ,of course in the early days of farming was all done by hand ,until some enterprising farmers bought threshing equipment and went from farm to farm ,towing their van ,to live in ,behind them .I can remember lots of haystacks used to be thatched ,too ,and there are still many houses  today with thatched roofs ,including the home of my neice Jo  and her husband Tony ,Jo as you know is Jean my sisters daughter .Apparently the oldest thatched roofed house is beneath the waters of a loch ,some where in Scotland proving how thatch can withstand the wet ! Well I hope between my words ,and the pictures I have managed to give you an insight into the old craft ,I should have posted this when we went, but we werent getting alerts at the time so I was a bit ,put out about it, so posted the entry where I was tapping my fingers, he he he !The rest of the pictures were taken as we wandered around the rural museum,and there will be more from there ,I hope you enjoy as much as we did With Love and have a good Saturday.

                 Jan xx