Pottage can be really really good. No, really good. I mean it. I think I’ve put weight on. People can be really really ignorant. I am *still* stuttering, hours later, about the woman who commented negatively on me breastfeeding my five month old baby, in character. Apparently tudors had no pride. Grrr. Both borage and [...]
Saturday snippets 25 August 2012
August 25, 2012 By 2 Comments
{lighting} a fire for cooking on {wearing} kirtle, shift and all {carrying} a baby {making} new friends {missing} my older boy and dp {eating} pottage, frumenty, and fried worts {listening} to the gentle patter of rain on a tent {enjoying} High Summer at Kentwell hall and glorious evening storm with following sunset.
Ten things I’ve learnt at Kentwell hall, including tudor factoids.
July 4, 2012 By 3 Comments
Marigold is good for bites and stings. Way better than the various creams and lotions I was carrying, and much more authentically tudor to be stained green. Sod means mustard. You get sod eggs, amongst other things and they are fabulous. Girls did not start having babies young. You didn’t get married/have babies til you [...]
Those layers of clothing from 1556.
July 2, 2012 By 6 Comments
Just one day left to go.
July 9, 2011 By 2 Comments
Fashion through the ages from the 1550s to 1960s
March 21, 2011 By 6 Comments
Kentwell and 1553.
March 19, 2011 By 5 Comments
