Re: Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee’s ‘Cider with Rosie’ is a lovely Book of an age gone by when Villages where heaven in and hardly any vehicles in the street.
I have been to Slad and Stroud. Laurie ‘s daughter now runs things and shows people round and gives lectures about his Books.
In Passing
There is a beautiful Mansion at the front of Slad overlooking the Valley. It used to belong to Rudolf Steiner as a School for his teaching method for children. This method is now taught at many Schools in the UK He was also a devote of Goethe, German Poet , Playwright, Scientist, Statesman , Artist and Philosopher. It looks like something out of a Bronte Story. It is now run as an Education Centre for Adults I was there on an Art Course and half expected D’Arcey to come riding over the hills any minute on his Horse!.
From page one I was fascinated by the families move to another Run -down House. The Family had very little money and seem to live on bread. When settled in after much scrubbing, their hard working, creative Mother grew vegetables in the garden. I think it was 14 loaves a week they had delivered. Foraging in the hedgerows for blackberries, they had a wonderful time outside in the beautiful countryside of the Cotswold The children all did well at the Village School too.
The Book is full of unusual characters and situations and hilarious times as well.
And which boy would not like to be under the ‘Hay Cart with Rosie’, drinking Cider from a flagon?
It was also broadcast as a Story on Radio and you can buy the CD DVD. It is also a film as well