Annie the Pedlar

04/06/2026

The other day my brain was in a fizzy wizzy tis was. Why I wondered?
Oh... I was doing ten things at once.
1 Washing up after the Regency gig.
2 Ironing my Regency underwear
3 Sticking soles back on shoes.
4 Making pins.
4 Dyeing tape.
5 Finishing whisks.
6 Putting handles on baskets.
7 Hardening feather tips for quills.
8 Drying rose petals for my next soap ball making gig
9 Sewing a codpiece onto some hose.
10 Posting off an order.
No wonder I felt pooped before I'd even started.😴

31/05/2026

Thinking of the upcoming Magic Weekend we have our homunculus, the top is chained on, you need a padlock said a random bright spark. I thought I was daft keeping a drawer of stuff I don't know what to do with but look! A padlock.
Hmmm it's locked and I can't find the key......

27/05/2026

What is the point of post it notes when you forget to read them😱😱😱

25/05/2026

Breakfast gossip.
The soldiers are 'knitting' barbed wire and spraying it to look rusty.
You can book on the V&A website to visit and examine intensely 5 objects for free.
If you unpack a 4 seasons sleeping bag you can't get it back into the little bag it can from.
And if you vacuum pack a load of stuff and put it under the bed but the bags leak, it all expands and no one can figure how to get the stuff out from under the bed .
And don't buy dodgy looking cans of coca cola. They might explode all over you in the heat and you will be freaked out and disgustingly sticky.
Who would have known?

24/05/2026

Happy life.

23/05/2026

I woke up this morning and had breakfast with a rabbit, crows, martins, a wagtail, Basil the adorable lamb, two ponies, and a peacock, two geese and their goslings.
That's the magic of Kentwell.

21/05/2026

Get set go.....

21/05/2026

I've decided I need a maid. A nice like scrubber would do. I've spent all day hoovering up chicken s**t. Much nicer than last year's rat droppings and dead bodies and only one bird flitting through the rafters instead of a whole family or two. Lovely Nat and Tim were my furniture shifters so all I had to do was scrub everything down.
All done and dusted. My Hat Shop is ready for the grand opening tomorrow. Schools and home eds. Then at the weekend anyone can visit Kentwell Through the Ages.

18/05/2026

Lugging very heavy boxes in from the shed ready to pack the car for my Regency Hat Shop at Kentwell this weekend.
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Join us this Bank Holiday weekend for a full day of time travel! Explore over 2,000 years of history in one jam-packed day, from BC all the way to AD!

Meet people from the past across our grounds and buildings and see how life has, and hasn't, changed over thousands of years! So, where (or when) will you head to first?

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11/05/2026

Most bonkers thing ever. Lucy the Tudor met my sister in law, or was it my niece or grand nieces, at a craft fair and they started talking about me. But what started off the conversation? How did they pick up the connection???????