Shakespear's House

After the tour bus, the creative and media group then went on to shakespears' house. It was a small, thatched cottage in the town square where there were many tourists from all over the world, all coming to see where the world famous writer lived. No offence to shakespear, but his house really smelt, i suppose it would after how long its been there. When we walked in, the was a young looking woman wearing old tudor-time clothes waiting there to greet us. She explained how the house was made, when it was made and who lived there. She then led us into a room where there was just a corridor and a bed. This wasn't a bedroom, it just happened to have a bed there. The bed was small and would have average sized men of our age with their feet hanging over the bottom of the bed.
We were then led into Shakespears' father's workshop where he made a living and profit from making and selling gloves. The gloves were made from rabbit and deer fur, which made them very expensive for the buyers. Which also made Shakespears' old man some serious money. The workshop didn't have any of the actual gloves which were made in the day, but fake replacas of the precious items. Altough the gloves were fake, the only other things that were fake were the stairs for obvious safety reasons.
Which we were about to use to get up to shakespears bedrooms. As we climed up the stairs, we entered a room of which we were able to see some of shakespears' work up close and personal. This work included shakespears' first draft of some of his writing and some drawings from when he was young. It also included little 'relics' of the house like cutlery, ornaments and lots of other things that could easily be taken or broken. Im not too sure what this room was, but it had a part of the ceiling removed and it had a table up there. I would have thought it was too unsafe for young children to be up there, especially with no stairs (none that i know of anyway).
We then went on to a bedroom which was for when the kids got older, then being big enough to have a bed without their parents in.
Which brought us to the next room, all decorated in red and green (colours to keep evil spirits away), it was Shakespears' parents bedroom. The Bed they slept in with all of their children in it until the age of 6. It must of been a very crowded household.
Then we all made our way down the stairs and into the kitchen/dining room. It was cramped room with some table and chairs with the kitchen through the door. The Kitchen was like a cupboard, hardly any room to move. There was a goose hanging over the table and a pig's head in a bowl, not real obviously. There was also a cellar in the dining room but the door was locked. I wonder what was down there.
When we went outside, the garden had lots and lots of flowers and plants, it looked very pretty. But as soon as we sat down at the benches set in an arch, we knew something was going on. A big tall man started staggering towards us. He was wearing a big fancy hat on his head and a satin suit. He fell on the floor in front of us and started grunting. He was drunk, quite obviously. Not long after a young woman with blonde hair came up to him and they had a huge argument. I didn't understand a word.

On the whole, Shakespears' house was a great way of learning about how Shakespear lived because you could see the whole thing. What also made it great was that the people presenting it to you were in character. Great stuff! : ) x