Today is packing day

So this is my list of things to do and things to pack.

To do:

Find all the things
pack them
buy shopping
decant things like flour into more appropriate storage (actually not flour...just googled McDougalls, they existed in the period!), but sugar, oats etc


So far I have packed:

Marbles

A jigsaw
Teddy bears
The bears' tea-set

 Watercolour paints, sketch book and brushes
Sewing box and linen squares that need hemming
Paper dolls and colouring pencils
Writing paper, pen and ink
Books

The books panned out like this in the end. Hannah wanted to read The Phoenix and the Carpet herself and for me to read The Secret Garden to her (so we decided we could go to 1910 instead...still fits the Edwardian criterion and nothing we have is so fashionable as to have been wrong for 1910). I am taking Great Expectations and The Voyage of the Beagle although I doubt even I will get through both in 4 days.

Now for the household equipment. I decided that as a home like the one we are living in would have been lit by gas, we will put on a few electric lights and light some candles! We do have lamps but I forgot to check they had wicks. They don't and it is too late to sort that out. Also:

A loaf tin
Preserving pan
jug and bowl for washing
milk jug
Bottles for lemonade
Enamel pie dish
Glass jars and bottles of supplies
Food, decanted from inappropriate packaging
Mrs Beeton


We have also got a selection of coins from my auntie's coin collection. One is from 1880 and is worn so thin you can barely see Victoria's head, but we have about 20 pennies and half-pennies from Edward's reign. I think we might do some maths based on money while we're there.  That will be interesting because even I'm not old enough to remember "old" money. I was 5 months old when Britain went decimal!

And clothes, whatever we've got, although  have had to make do quite a bit. Since H refuses to set foot outside the house I think it will be okay!