Title of the day

[pandop]

Seen in the Farmers' Weekly Reader Offers Catalogue: 

Beet Lifting through the ages: the beet campaign - 50 years of change

Edit: I have just realised this is a DVD, not a book. I am not sure if this makes it better or worse ...

Comments

[agent_dani]

Beet Lifting? I'm not sure I want to know.

Actually, I found it on-line - the first links from Google for the phrase "beet lifting" are for it - and understand it a bit better. It amounts to an industry history video that's based on a field demonstration an antique machinery association did. For this purpose, lifting means harvesting. It's a new term for me, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised; after all, we used to have machines called "hay crimpers" which did exactly what the name implies.

Crazy as I am, I'd probably have found the field demonstration itself interesting. You can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy. :)

[hazelstitch.livejournal.com]

I must admit I did think of you when I saw the title. I knew lifting meant harvesting, it is quite a common term here (I may have grown up at the seaside, but the other 3 sides of the town were surrounded by farms)