She is happy, honest. Glorious sunset. The hall is open to the public with tudors reenacting 1588 today (Sunday 23rd) and Monday 24th, and then next weekend as well. … [Read more...] about Kentwell 1588 day one
Kentwell hall
Summer snippets part 2 – all about Joan
This is Joan. (With thanks to Mike and Allison for the picture. ) I've been Joan twice this summer. It's peculiar - in the run up to Kentwell I do a lot of faffing and panicking, then there's the actually getting there and putting up tents and then I just am. Life is both simpler and more … [Read more...] about Summer snippets part 2 – all about Joan
Saturday snippets 21 August 2015
{putting} a tent up Kentwell Hall, ready for this week's hands on living history reenactment. Forecast was for a very hot day, so I went as early as I could to get sorted before the heat set in. Still hot work, particularly putting it up on my own, but I have now cracked how to put it up … [Read more...] about Saturday snippets 21 August 2015
Mistress Joan and family
We finish at Kentwell hall midsummer tomorrow. Last chance to meet Mistress Joan until August. … [Read more...] about Mistress Joan and family
Perfect moments
When the rain starts 5 minutes after you get back to your tent after a long warm day. When your 3 year old picks up a diabolo lying on the sward and can almost work it. When you speak to your other half and say a friend went on a supermarket run so you asked for crisps, and it turns out he … [Read more...] about Perfect moments
