📗 Libro en inglés YOU ARE HISTORY: FROM THE ALARM CLOCK TO THE TOILET, THE AMAZING HISTORY OF THE THINGS YOU USE EVERY DAY

The Nutty IdyllFormer townies Giles and Mary swapped city life for rural Wiltshire over thirty years ago and they ve each embraced it in their own very different ways Mary has happily traded sophisticated London salons for monthly lectures at the Farmers Club competitive school quizzes church interactions and local Auction House sales While Giles has immersed himself in the catastrophic consequences of conventional farming his organic no dig veg patch the increasingly disproportionate response by local landlords to harmless trespassers and the strange death of the village house martins For recent city escapees and indigenous country folk alike Giles and Mary sift through the unhelpful dreamy myths and offer a practical reality with robust back and forth on every aspect of life in rural outposts including but not limited to planning wars class wars dog thefts tree felling fights misunderstandings between incomers and natives and the role of the Heron Appreciation Society The much loved Wiltshire couple share their combined hard earned lessons so we can learn the secret skills of grumbling and bumbling our way towards a new contented country life