- 07/07/2025
Ep 2: February. Village child Rosie Logan comes to stay with the family after she contracts measles to give her mother a rest, where Edith teaches her about nature and drawing. Edith and sister Evelyn are both having art lessons, though Edith is not as keen on the art tutor Mr Taylor as her sister is. And brother Kenneth brings friend Frank Matthews to visit the family, a man who is a social campaigner who is eager to set up a lodge for disadvantaged children and is keen for her father's help.
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(Note: Apologies in advance if I am unable to upload this series every day. This is either due to my internet playing up or a fault on Dailymotion's site. I will attempt to upload daily for this series or when I am able to do so. Until then, enjoy this gentle period ramble through nature).
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00:00Gowan Bank, Olten, Warwickshire.
00:18Nature Notes for 1906.
00:21By Edith B.
00:30Holden.
00:46To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell,
00:50To slowly trace the forest's shady sea,
00:53Where things that own not man's dominion dwell,
00:56And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been,
00:59To climb the trackless mountain all unseen,
01:02With the wild flock that never need a fold,
01:05Alone on steeps and foaming falls to lean.
01:09This is not solitude,
01:11Tis but to hold converse with nature's charms,
01:14And view her stores unrolled.
01:17To be continued...
01:19One month is past
01:48Another is begun
01:49Since merry bells rang out
01:51The dying year
01:53And buds of rarest green
01:56Began to appear
01:57As if impatient for a warmer sun
01:59And though the distant hills
02:02Are bleak and dun
02:03The virgin snowdrop
02:05Like a lambent fire
02:07Pierces the cold earth
02:09With its green-streaked spire
02:11And in dark woods
02:13The wandering little one
02:15May find a prune rose
02:17Miss Edith
02:38Why aren't you drawing?
02:41Your sister's nearly finished her study
02:43Sorry, sir
02:45I was just thinking
02:46You must learn to sit down
02:49In a landscape
02:50Just as you would in a classroom
02:52Evelyn, how can you bear
02:59That pompous man?
03:02I don't mind doing as I'm told
03:04Soon you will learn to recognise trees
03:09As mere problems of perspective
03:12And apply the same techniques
03:15To drawing them
03:16As if they were just
03:18Another piece of architecture
03:20February
03:24This month derives its name
03:26From the word Februare
03:28To purify
03:29Or from Februar
03:30The Roman festival of expiation
03:32Which was celebrated
03:33Through the latter part
03:34Of this month
03:35In ordinary years
03:37There are 28 days in February
03:38But in leap year
03:4029
03:41February 1st
03:53Dull day
03:54With slight drizzle of rain
03:55Frank?
04:04I'm sorry, Edith
04:05I couldn't think
04:06What else to do for her
04:07You have all had measles here
04:08Haven't you?
04:09Well, I'm sure we've all had
04:10Isn't this one of
04:11Mrs. Logan's children?
04:12Yes, the whole family's
04:13Gone down with it
04:14This is Rosie
04:15Oh, come on in, Rosie
04:17We'll get you something hot to eat
04:18It's all right
04:19I'll do it
04:19I've just made some soup
04:21I couldn't take her to the home
04:23Because she just spread the disease
04:24To all the other children
04:25Warmth and rest
04:28Is all she needs now
04:29No hope of either
04:30In the Logan household
04:31This winter
04:32Are you asleep?
04:51Every second
05:00Candlemas day
05:01Wild
05:03And stormy
05:08If Candlemas day be fair and bright
05:15Winter will have another flight
05:17But if Candlemas day be clouds and rain
05:20Winter is gone
05:22And will not come again
05:24In February
05:27If thou hearest thunder
05:29Thou shalt see a summer wonder
05:31Evelyn
05:33You asleep?
05:41You packed everything for tomorrow
05:43Mountain gorses ever golden
05:58Cancred not the whole year long
06:01Do ye teach us to be strong
06:03Howsoever pricked and holden
06:05Like your thorny blooms
06:07And so trodden on by rain and snow
06:10Up the hillside of this life
06:13As bleak as where ye grow
06:15Mountain blossoms
06:19Shining blossoms
06:21Do ye teach us to be glad
06:23When no summer can be had
06:25Blooming in our inward bosoms
06:27Ye whom God preserveth still
06:30Set as lights upon a hill
06:32Tokens to the wintry earth
06:35That beauty liveth still
06:37Woohoo
06:51O Vanessa
06:53Mother
06:55Bye
06:56Like
06:57Mother
06:57Bye
07:00Bye
07:01Bye
07:02Bye
07:03Bye
07:04Bye
07:04Mother, can I introduce Frank Matthews?
07:09Frank, this is my mother.
07:10How do you do, Mrs. Holden?
07:11You are very welcome to our home, Mr. Matthews.
07:15And these are my sisters, Winnie.
07:17Hello.
07:17Edith.
07:19How do you do?
07:19And Evelyn.
07:20How do you do?
07:28You survey my girls' work very closely, Mr. Matthews.
07:31Are you an artist?
07:33Absolutely not, Mrs. Holden.
07:34Please forgive me.
07:35I didn't mean to be rude.
07:36I simply wondered what your daughters were all working on so patiently.
07:39I hope you do not altogether disapprove.
07:42Mrs. Holden, I'm no judge of their talents.
07:44I'm afraid no work of art greatly interests me.
07:47Frank cares only for what can be done for society, Mother.
07:50You see, Mrs. Holden,
07:51the poor can find no easy way to warm themselves on a night like this.
07:55I say nothing of the value of art to fortunate people like ourselves,
07:59but it's of little use to people in rags with bloated bellies.
08:02Very strong opinions for a young man.
08:06But we won't quarrel over them,
08:08seeing your own concerns are so Christian in spirit.
08:11Mrs. Holden,
08:12we're trying to organise country outings
08:14for some of the poorest of the children.
08:16That's why I want him to meet Father,
08:17because I know he'll make a donation.
08:19But do you think he'd let them use the garden for the outings?
08:21Ask him.
08:22He's in the conservatory.
08:24Come along, Frank.
08:25Excuse me.
08:26What an intolerably rude young man.
08:38I didn't think he was rude, really.
08:41I liked him.
08:43He cares about people.
08:45Don't you think that's more important than caring about art?
08:48Of course.
08:49But how can anyone love God
08:53and feel nothing for the beauties of nature?
08:55I don't know.
08:57I don't know.
09:19I don't know.
09:20How is the child?
09:35Sleeping soundly, Father.
09:37Good, good.
09:41February 9th.
09:43Snowstorm in the night.
09:45This morning we looked out on a white landscape.
09:48Rosie!
09:50I've got a surprise for you.
09:57Well look.
10:00Oh miss.
10:03Well don't you like the snow?
10:06Oh Rosie dear.
10:10You needn't worry about being cold here you know.
10:15No season is completely bad.
10:18Winter's always bad.
10:20Well you have your breakfast now.
10:28Now wait.
10:29In a moment the garden will be full of beautifully coloured birds.
10:37Look.
10:38I swept a space free on the lawn and strewed it with bread and rice.
10:45Crowds of birds came.
10:46I counted eight tits at one time on the coconut and tripod a stick supporting it.
10:52Oh look, they're beginning to fight.
10:55There were some terrible battles among the tits this morning.
10:58Oh they're wicked little creeps.
11:00Look at them go.
11:04One took possession of the coconut sitting down in the middle of it and bidding defiance to all the others.
11:09Oh how he fights.
11:10It was very funny to see him squatting in the shell sparring and hissing at another tit who came at him with open wings and beak.
11:17You know what to do?
11:18No.
11:19So long as you walk around the mountain and you have to go.
11:19Oh good.
11:20You needn't to go.
11:21Fuck.
11:21You are sick.
11:22You have to go.
11:22Are you a pirate?
11:23You are sick?
11:23I don't know.
11:24I don't know.
11:24I don't know.
11:24Oh My God.
11:24Oh My God.
11:25I don't know.
11:26Come back.
11:26I thought you'd keep you out too long on your first day.
11:51Not too cold?
11:56February 12th. Visited the Violet Wood again today. The lords and ladies are quite up above
12:03the ground now.
12:04This is nice. What is it?
12:07Arum maculatum, or wild arum. Or cuckoo pint. Or lords and ladies. Whichever you'd prefer.
12:14Lords and ladies. It's so beautiful. It looks as though it should be riding in a carriage.
12:19It is lovely, isn't it? It'll be even lovelier in a month or so. Come on.
12:26The ground in the wood is covered with tiny seedlings of moschatel. And the violet roots
12:34are sending up little green trumpets of new leaves. The elm trees are just breaking into
12:41blossom and the willows are showing their downy white catkins. Very small as yet.
12:48the lords and the lords and the lords and the lords and the lords. This way. Oh, listen.
12:55There's a thrush singing. Can you hear? It sounds like spring is coming. Spring is coming.
13:07February 13th. Snowing all day.
13:20There.
13:33Oh, my goodness. You are coming on, Rosie.
13:48How did you know how to draw?
13:50Oh, I didn't. My mother taught me. She taught all my brothers and sisters.
13:56Now, let's teach you to draw something. I couldn't ever do it.
14:03You mustn't ever think that. You are a very clever, hard-working little girl.
14:13And you can do anything. Anything at all.
14:19You see?
14:24Oh, Miss, I wish it could always be like this.
14:27With you to help me, I mean.
14:29Well, of course it can.
14:36Of course it can.
14:38Did your father let you draw at home?
14:57Yes, of course.
14:58Did he like your drawings?
15:00Yes, he did.
15:19Edith, I love your oak tree.
15:21It's just like some grand old man of the woods, isn't it, Arthur?
15:25Arthur.
15:27Evelyn.
15:28This is wonderful work.
15:30Miraculous for a first-year student.
15:33Arthur?
15:34Hmm?
15:35Hasn't Edith come on marvellously since she's started here?
15:38Oh, look, Father. Here's one of my tutors. You must meet him.
15:41Mr. Taylor, this is my father, Arthur Holden.
15:44How do you do?
15:45Well, what do you think of her?
15:47Absolutely marvellous, isn't she?
15:50Her work with the human figure is excellent.
15:53Very advanced.
15:55Your Edith has considerable promise too, Mr. Holden.
15:59An excellent eye for details, particularly in nature.
16:05Although the rest of her work does not shine in quite the same way.
16:09Not too heavy on the rump. Remember, you want to highlight the form.
16:21The urge shrew, or shrewmouse, inhabits subterranean tunnels which it excavates in the soil.
16:26It feeds upon insects and worms, and its long flexible nose is a great aid to it in its search after food.
16:32The shrew is very impatient of hunger and cannot endure a protracted fast.
16:37It is suggested that the many dead shrews which are found in the autumn on country roads and footpaths owe their deaths to starvation,
16:45the worms having descended too deeply into the ground for them to follow,
16:49and the insects having concealed themselves in their winter hiding places.
16:53The reason that their dead bodies are not carried off for food by weasels or owls
16:58probably exists in the strong odour which exhales from the shrew.
17:02In country districts, a superstitious fear and hatred was formally entertained against this pretty and harmless little animal.
17:14For those of you who don't have Wood's Natural History at home, please make a note of what's on the board before you go.
17:20February 15th.
17:32Walking home from Sully Hull this afternoon, I noticed a number of gnats dancing in the bright sunshine.
17:38I saw two little shrew mice in different places on the bank.
17:50They darted quickly into their holes directly they saw me.
17:54Father, I...
18:00Oh.
18:01Frank.
18:02Hello, Edith.
18:03How is the child, Edie?
18:04Father tells me that you've been looking after her all this time.
18:07Yes, of course.
18:08She's very well.
18:09Good.
18:10I must just go up and see her.
18:11We'll collect her quite soon, then.
18:13I've mad me so I'm frightened of mice.
18:37Poor harmless creature.
18:40He's much more frightened of you.
18:43I'm going to take him back to his old home.
18:46As soon as you've done his portrait.
18:53February 24th.
18:55Cycle to Packwood through Sully Hull and Bentley Heath.
18:58I passed a rookery along the way.
19:00The rooks were all very busy building up their old nests and a great deal of chatter they made over it.
19:06Everywhere the branches of the willow bushes were tipped with downy white balls.
19:12And the older catkins were showing very red.
19:22In the garden of Packwood Hall the borders were full of large clumps of single snowdrops.
19:27I brought away a small bunch.
19:31The farmer living there brought out a little lamb to show me.
19:34Good morning.
19:35One of a family of three born that morning.
19:38Oh, little one.
19:42Hello.
19:43Hello.
19:44I held it in my arms and it seemed quite fearless, poking its little black head up into my face.
19:53How's Evelyn?
19:54Oh, she's very well.
19:56I wish she and Frank wouldn't take on so much.
19:58They've had none of their children's outings for a time now.
20:02Here.
20:03Let me take them back.
20:04There you go.
20:06I was round your place the other day.
20:07Pitiful sight.
20:08Why an old house like that in such a state?
20:09Why an old house like that in such a state?
20:11Why an old house like that in such a state?
20:12Why an old house like that in such a state?
20:13Why an old house like that in such a state?
20:14Well, now we must support our future.
20:20Oh, well, now, we must support our future.
20:34Thank you, sir.
20:38Two.
20:39For you.
20:40Thank you, sir.
20:41Good.
20:42Enjoy, Mr. Punch.
20:44I'm sure the country air will do in the world of good.
20:59There.
21:00Now you can look.
21:02How splendid.
21:04You are now immortal.
21:05Off you go.
21:08Well, Frank's doing marvelous work.
21:12He couldn't do it without your help.
21:14Lending him the lodge has been wonderful for the children.
21:18Fortunate that we're in a position to help.
21:21Can you?
21:22That's right.
21:23Make sure you can see the camera.
21:25There we are.
21:26And smile.
21:27Keep still.
21:28Are we going to be took?
21:44What?
21:45I got a piped forma.
21:46And smile.
21:50I took myaches back.
21:52You're here.
21:53I'm out.
21:54Go bed.
21:55Goo.
21:56Goode.
21:58come on little fellow
22:20you're home
22:23off you go
22:27off you go
22:38oh no
22:52we sleek it cowering timorous beastie oh what a panic see thy breastie thou needna start away
23:07say hasty with bickering brattle I wad be laved to run and chase thee with murdering
23:14battle thou saw the field laid bare in waste and weary winter coming fast and cozy here beneath
23:29the blast thou thought to dwell till crash the cruel coulter passed out through thyself
23:36but mousy thou art no thy lane in proving foresight may be vain the best laid schemes a mice and men
23:46gang after glay and lay us naught but grief and pain for promised joy
23:53still thou art blessed compared with me the present only toucheth thee but oh I backward
24:07cast my eon prospects drear and forward though I canna see I guess and fear
24:23rose's mother's been to collect her she's gone
24:53and and and and and February 28th ash Wednesday we have had more winter weather this February than any
25:13other month this winter
25:23I mean
25:29I mean
25:33yeah
25:42yeah
25:43okay
25:43yeah
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25:45yeah
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25:48yeah
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