When we went to Gainsborough Old Hall, Daddy wasn't there because he was ill. We went inside a big building and we saw a shop so we went inside. In the shop they had pens shaped like an arrow. They were cool! In the museum, they had a big table with all kinds of food that they ate in the olden days. There was a big stuffed swan on a table and we all felt it, but the lady told us not to touch it because it had nasty fluid in it that would make us poorly. We saw a big, big table with some people sitting at it. There was an old lady and another old lady, and one old lady asked us to get into groups at the tables at the sides then I'll give you some information about the tower. We listened to her and she said that the wood that the house was made of was from an oak tree. She said it was about 50,000 years old.
She said that this big table is where the King sits and Lord Thomas was the first one who sat on that chair because he made it so he said it would try it out. It was fine, so he told the King (king Henry VIII). They also told Lady Catherine Howard, and they all gathered with the lords an ladies of the land for a big feast. The servants scurried around making all the food and bringing it out onto tables. One of the servants said bring me all the food, so the servant rushed off and when he came back he was carrying a big tray of food, all kinds of different food...
After the feast they went to do some dancing. They watched the dancers and all the people made music for everyone to listen to. Everybody could join in if they wanted to. The jester was laughing and making everybody laugh. He was getting balls and juggling them and everyone was laughing. We moved on to another room. We saw how they made breads. They used big paddles to put some bread on and put it into cave things that were heated up. When they thought it was hot enough, they took the bread out and put it on the table. They had these plastic foods and we pretended that we were making cakes for the king. A lady said let's make something delicious for the king for dinner. All the lords and ladies had silver on their cakes but the king had GOLD on his! We pretended that we were making some silver cakes and gold cakes. We pretend to decorate them with jewels and diamonds. We walked into the butcher's room.,.. It had real stuffed dead animals haning up but we didn't like it so we walked out and went somewhere else.
One of the ladies said have you seen our taps to wash our dishes so we all said "no". She said we didn't have to wash our dishes. Imagine that! Lots of people went "So how do you wash your dishes?" We don't lick them, we don't get our hands wet, we lower them into some water then put them somewhere sunny to dry. She asked have you seen our washing machines? We said no. We don't need to wash our clothes, we just get a brush and beat them outside. We take them back inside and put them on again. We only have two pairs of clothes, one for winter time and one for summer time. We rush outside, take our winter clothes off, lower them down into the water, then rush back inside and put our summer clothes back on again. Have you seen our drying machine? No. We dry them by putting them somewhere sunny, like with the dishes. Let's move on now.
Upstairs there was something weird because there was Indians and people talking to the Indians and putting babies to bed. They didn't have any eyes or noses so we knew they were stuffed, so we carried on upstairs· We saw a bed and I said whose bedroom is this? They said that's Lord Thomas' bed. You can go on it but it will probably hurt you because it's wood and straw and feathers, so you would not want to lay on it because you might get a back ache.
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