Holly 23 - Mary Arden's Farm

Our outing today was Mary Arden's Tudor Farm. Mary was Shakespeare's mother and Shakespeare was a play writer. He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

 Mary's farm was a lovely place to be. There are lots of cool things to do and look at like the bird display. The bird display was a bit different to the usual sort of falconry shows because the man told us all about how the birds were used in the Tudor times for hunting and how different types of people were allowed to have different types of birds.  If you had the wrong sort of bird you might have your hand cut off.

They did three shows that we saw and one that we didn't see. The ones we watched had an eagle owl called Tahlia.

The other one was a barn owl called Millie.  

There was also a Tudor dinner where the Tudor's talked to everyone about the manners they had and how they lived.  It was very interesting. They sat at a board instead of a table and the Master was the head of the house and everyone had to wait for him to start before they could eat.  Everyone had their own spoon.

There was also the cow milking and a man milked a beautiful cow. Another animal that I liked were the sheep

but I have to say my very favourite animals were the goats and the horse. The horse was very shy and the goats tried to eat my shoes.  

My favourite thing at the farm was the leather worker because he made a really cool leather bottle. I

had a go at geese herding which is a very important job because they had to take the geese to market to make money.  To herd the geese you need a stick. There would be a men or even children herding them and another person is called the blocker and they stop the geese going the wrong way.  They would take about 200 geese at a time and they needed a lot of men. Aidan also had a go at geese herding.

The blacksmith was Dad's favourite. He made some pretty cool things like arrow heads. It was very noisy and he was making a knife and it was a little bit curved as well.  

I had a lovely time at the farm.