Hey Blog! Welcome back to my weekly posts.
On Monday I found a Lesser Stag Beetle on the wall of my shed. There are apparently three species of Stag beetle in the UK: The Stag Beetle, the Lesser Stag Beetle, and the Rhinoceros Beetle.
This week we went to Ashover Pumpkin farm with friends. We went to the Ashover Sunflowers in the summer, and the pumpkins were just as awesome! I picked four: a green-orange knobbly one, a large orange one, and two yellow ones. I’m going to make the big one into a pumpkin lantern, and we’re also going to make some pumpkin pies or muffins. Some of the ones we didn’t pick were nearly 75cm across, and weighed what felt like a ton!
Today I did an online “Tudor cook-along” with Dig Ventures, an archaeology organisation. We made Bosworth Jumbles, made of flour, sugar, spices and water, a biscuit-cake that might have been served at a Tudor period (1485 – 1603) “Banqueting Hall”. These halls were usually temporary structures, often in gardens. The legend goes that the recipe was found by Henry VII’s men after the battle of Bosworth and that Richard III’s chef was an expert at it. They’re very tasty!
