The other Boleyn girl has stepped on her hem which is how I find myself with needle in hand in the pre-dawn, pre-caffeinated hours of the 15th century.
Faulty career planning is largely to blame, though in my guidance counselor's defense, Medieval Household Support was once seen as something of a growth industry.
I finish in time to get her back into her gown and transported to Medieval Junior High, where the full range of pre-Renaissance society is represented, minus the 99 percent of the population of less than noble birth.
Related adventures: Ad hoc like an Egyptian, Ode on a Grecian Post-It Note, The Mother of Invention, Andromeda strain
I hope you mentioned that if she wanted to be really authentic, by now she would have been married against her will to a member of the minor nobility and have a couple of kids.
And then I assume you went into great detail about bathing habits.
Fun times.
Posted by: Sue | May 11, 2010 at 11:43 AM
Wow, how many goats and sheep to marry HER?!
That was very tacky -- sorry. A needle and thread? In the morning? You are my new hero, SK.
p.s. The peasants all live around *here*.
Posted by: foolery | May 11, 2010 at 01:44 PM
Did anyone offer to slather themselves in goose grease and then get sewn into their long underwear for the duration of medieval middle school? Because I hear that's how many people (even nobles) spent the winter. And it's practically winter again here in the midwest.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Posted by: MommyTime | May 11, 2010 at 05:00 PM
PS I apologize profusely for the lack of noun pronoun agreement up there. Can't stand that when my students do it. Don't know why I just did.
Posted by: MommyTime | May 11, 2010 at 05:01 PM
English majors sweat the small stuff as if they themselves were slathered in goose grease and sewn into their long underwear...
But that is why we love them.
SK
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | May 12, 2010 at 06:30 AM
Loooove it! Hate those early-morning repair jobs, Husband does that to me all the time, usually when he has 1.5 minutes to leave the house before being late to something important.
When I first read the title of your post I thought it said, "...free of peanuts" so I was trying to figure out if medieval folks ate a lot of peanuts or something... this is what I get when I read blogs too early in the morning! lol
And hey, there had to be a Ye Olde Middle Schoole for the nobles, too, right? You dasn't expect them to hobnob with the unwashed rabble all day! You're just one of the lucky ones. Love the photo, too.
Posted by: janny226 | May 13, 2010 at 05:24 AM