All’s right with the Aga
A picture of traditional perfection? Dog and all …
Picture perfect
And the kettle’s on, too – a good excuse for a tea-break . “God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world” as some insufferably smug Victorian Briton put it. (Robert Browning, to be precise, and I know, taken in context he wasn’t really being smug – probably). Look – it gets better, there’s even a table :
Even better
I love the socks drying on the Aga – zooming in, I can almost smell them (okay, maybe that’s not so good). And I am a bit worried about that kettle:
Trouble in paradise
An accident waiting to happen. I’ll have to admit – that’s even worse than the over-the-range microwaves I’m always winging about. Mood shattered. I’d have to jump up and move that if I were there…
Oh well, back to the grindstone. Those socks were making the tea taste funny, anyway. (via)
Oh, snap! Queen Victoria said plain food makes strong men – how could she be wrong? … Anyway, the French LaCanche ranges are about the same height, (so there!) People have just got taller in the last hundred years or so. No doubt the upper classes were always tall, but they weren’t doing their own cooking were they? We’ve just settled on 36″ standard as an average, there a lot of people for whom that is really too low or too high. If I remember rightly, the cooking surface should ideally be 3″ below the break of your elbow.
Did not know that about the traditional 33.5 inch lowered elevation. Is that because of the heights to which British cuisine aspires? Need a (mutton) leg up…
It does show off the socks, doesn’t it. As far as I know they are always and ever have been 33.5″ tall – so you almost always see them standing on a little platform of some sort. It’s traditional! I wonder if you can choose to buy a matching skirt – I think there’d be a market for it.
Aga’s in white – now that’s something you don’t see much anymore. Sets off the socks well though. I love the little brick pedestal/hearth holding the whole deal up. A tall cook in the house? Or just a make-do retro-fit solution?