Saturday 18 August 2012

At home with the Tudors

It will come as no great surprise to regular readers of this blog to discover that we were taken off to the Open Air Museum in search of yet more education to fill in any gaps in our now quite extensive historical knowledge. Well, it feels like our heads are stuffed with it. We'd rather have our mouths stuffed with historical sucking pig, and thought that the Tudors at least would be bound to have at least one if not several.                     
 Hmm, no sucking pig here, just a lot of bows and arrows and stuff. The Madwoman got a bit carried away and asked if she could hold one of the swords. They got a bit worried as she started to wave it around, especially when a strange glint appeared in her eye, and they had to virtually wrestle it back off her.
We had to pretend we weren't with her.
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Aha!
The Tudor kitchen.
Carrots - lots of 'em. We like carrots,
And potage: not sure what that is, but we like porage, which is only one letter different.
And a capon. That's Tudor for chicken: sadly not cooked yet, and
we do prefer ours roasted rather than raw.
We sucked in our sides and looked as thin as possible,
and got lots of sympathetic attention.
Not sympathetic enough to offer us any lunch though.
Not so much as a slice of carrot. 

4 comments:

Joan Lennon said...

Carrots? Now I've learned something today too!

madwippitt said...

Oh yes, we like carrots. And broccoli, and blueberries and runner beans, and strawberries and raspberries and apple and peach ...

Joan Lennon said...

I did not know! Is this true of all dogs or just superlative dogs like you?

madwippitt said...

We think it's like Marmite: some dogs love them, others just ren't interested at all. We like pretty well all vegetables and fruit which are safe for us, but some are toxic like grapes, onions and avocadoes.