Badger's Kitchen

" ... at once they found themselves in all the glow and warmth of a large fire-lit kitchen."

 

"The floor was well-worn red brick, and on the wide hearth burnt a fire of logs, between two attractive chimney-corners tucked away in the wall, well out of any suspicion of draught. A couple of high-backed settles, facing each other on either side of the fire, gave further sitting accommodations for the sociably disposed. In the middle of the room stood a long table of plain boards placed on trestles, with benches down each side. At one end of it, where an arm-chair stood pushed back, were spread the remains of the Badger's plain but ample supper. Rows of spotless plates winked from the shelves of the dresser at the far end of the room, and from the rafters overhead hung hams, bundles of dried herbs, nets of onions, and baskets of eggs. It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest Home with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment. The ruddy brick floor smiled up at the smoky ceiling; the oaken settles, shiny with long wear, exchanged cheerful glances with each other; plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf, and the merry firelight flickered and played over everything without distinction."


Lily took this picture of Mole, Ratty and Badger the last time she was in Badger's Kitchen.
(The mouse is just a stuffed animal.)
 
 
- Spoken Word - Audio Books -

Lily reading "The Wind in the Willows"

 

You may contact Lily: Lily@BadgersKitchen.net

Thanks to David Aldridge for the use of his image.

Thanks to The Project Guttenberg for the text of
"The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame [1908].