Mistress Connie
Mistress Connie is a House Maid and labourer for Yeoman households in Warwickshire and Worcestershire. Each year at the hiring and mop fairs she finds employment for the following year selling her skills as a cook, cleaner, musician, dance mistress, seamstress, washerwoman and storyteller.
Daily Duties
Fire lighting, chopping firewood, collecting kindling
Fetching water
Preparing dinner, setting table places
Brewing ale
Washing up and scrubbing kitchen down
Animal care - feeding, cleaning and grooming
Cleaning the house
Washing linens
Tending the vegetable gardens
Other Duties
Music - singing, recorder, drumming, bagpipes
Symphony, mandolin
Dancing
Mending and starching
Animal training
Hedging
Planting gardens and vegetable plots
Apothocary
Wool Crafts
Basket and Bee Skep weaving
Archery
Games
Ale House
Wood skills
Mummers plays - writing and performing
Scribing, education
Story telling
History Come Alive!