From Pre-historic Britain through Roman occupation and up to the 19C. They came in a cardboard slip case which was falling to pieces but a bit of glue soon sorted it out....... £1 spent.
I've got them close at hand in the living room but haven't had a good look yet.
Thank God we're not getting the weather that they have in parts of Europe including as far south as Italy and Greece..........snow, snow and even more snow There's no sign of anything like that in the UK yet. But still plenty of winter left.............it was March last year when we were snowed in for a couple of days........day's when we should have been traveling to Addenbrookes Hospital.
Thanks to everyone for comments about Snowdrops yesterday. I really will make an effort to get to Anglesey Abbey later this month.
Thanks also for comments from a few days ago that I hadn't seen. I think the Books Read page 2019 is now working, each year I forget how to add a new page and have to fiddle about with the cross column and pages gadget for ages to get it sorted.
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Sue
I think I had a couple of those books (bought seperately at Museums or suchlike) - Roman was one of them, and perhaps Tudor cooking? I am sure you will find them fascinating but I doubt stuffed Dormouse will be appearing on your menu!!
ReplyDeleteI have my fingers crossed we don't have masses of snow, but we have topped up the oil and as we didn't get much wood cut for the log burner last year (Keith's shoulder being such a problem), we bring back any small logs or branches we can carry from our walks. A neighbour had absolutely TRASHED a very well established hedge down by the bridge, so there is a lot of fire fodder there.
They look interesting books and I'm sure I would have bought them too. I never intentionally collected them, but about 20 or 30 years ago I seemed to have quite a few old recipe books given to me by elderly relatives or bought from the library when they were selling books off. In a mad spurt to declutter and being ruthless I got rid of them. I see quite a few of them on different blogs and very much regret my madness.
ReplyDeleteWHat a wonderful collection of little books - you do find some delightful things!
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A lucky find in December
DeleteYou always finds some great treasure. I do miss having a stroll around a car boot sale.
ReplyDeleteOnly a few weeks to wait until they start again - hooray!
DeleteYour little books are very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI do hope we done get a lot of snow, I was in hospital last year and my daughter could not come and see me for 3 days. We don't get car boot sales round here but I have just seen the Scouts jumble sale adviser next week which I hope to see.
Hazel c uk
There was some awful weather on the first days of March
DeleteDelightful little books they will be an interesting read. I imagine the snow will come here later - they have predicted a bad winter but then it is like the heat wave predictions they have every year that don't appear. Last year must have made them happy to get the prediction right for once!
ReplyDeleteI would love a hot summer again this year too
DeleteWhat lovely little books! It's turned colder here. Brrr….the highest it got yesterday was -5c I think. It snowed on Wednesday so I stayed in. I don't like driving in it. We live on a hill and if I'm watching people struggle to get up it then I know it's quite slippery out. Hope you have a good weekend!
ReplyDeleteNo sign of minus temps here at the moment.thank goodness
DeleteIt's getting warmer here at the moment!
ReplyDeleteAfter my comment the other day about not gardening ... I ended up weeding last years outdoor cabbage bed yesterday as the weeds were staring to grow, lots of fresh new shoots. And yes we have lots of Snowdrops dotted around the place, they look beautiful amongst all the dreary damp deadness of everywhere else around here at the moment.
It's so wet here that pulling up weeds would lift a pound of soil each time, I shall have to wait a while.
DeleteNothing to do with the books but with the drone photograph in your header. What is the house behind the hedge lining the ploughed field? A farm house?
ReplyDeleteRoderick
Do you mean in the distant side of the field? if so it's a pair of farm cottages. The fields are owned and farmed by a farmer much further away, so all the houses around are small cottages or houses.
DeleteYes, on the distant side of the field. So, are the farm cottages occupied as of 2019? By workers on the farm? Roderick
DeleteThe houses are all occupied but by whom and if rented or now privately owned I have no idea.
DeleteA lovely find, a real bargain, well done. We don't often get a lot of snow around here on the east coast, but having said that we will probably get snowed in now!..doesn't take much to maroon me though, I struggle to stay upright after a heavy frost!!
ReplyDeleteI thought of you when I got them but they aren't really old recipe books
DeleteA lovely set of books, indeed! So nice to visit here today ♥
ReplyDeleteThose books are going to be so much fun for you to go through. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteGod bless.