We went on a home ed group trip to Segedunum yesterday for a Tudor experience. The children were assigned characters - here's one of my little characters aka Margaret Weardale Heiress of Houses.
This was the Learning Officer who got ten out of ten for her costume and also for her ability to convey lots of information to the children in a really fun and informative manner.
Making pomanders to try to keep vile maladies and miasmas at bay.
Perusing the many Tudor artefacts on display.
Much fun and merriment was had by all. We even learned how to greet royalty, show reverence (without messing up by exposing the nits in your cap and risking the Tower) and dance Tudor evening dance.
Got to dash. Hermione is loose in the kitchen making chocolate truffles for her dinner guests tomorrow night. Don't forget it's Earth Hour. Get out your candles - perhaps you may even like to follow Hermione's lead and invite a couple of your favourite locals round for a candle lit dinner - three courses with truffles to follow as I understand it.
4 comments:
Sounds lovely - bet the truffles will be great.
Our HE group went to a Tudor event recently and we all really enjoyed ourselves - especially the dancing!
wow that sounds really good :-)
Nice to meet you, we thoroughly enjoyed Segedunum too, the woman really engaged the kids so well - mine usually rebel with being so soon out of school and they loved it. What's the secret I wonder?
Hope you enjoyed your truffles :-) Just reading about Earth hour today while catching up .... 24 hours too late, blush :-)
Hazel xx
It was lovely to meet you too Hazel. Hopefully I'll see you again some time soon - or you would always be welcome to call round.
x
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