Yesterday St Patrick’s went to the stone cottage. We were lucky enough that it was across the road from us. We left at 10am and started to walk down to the cottage. When we went to the cottage the people who met us said that their names were Terry, Josephine and Patrick.
Patrick, our historian, was going to be showing us around and he was telling us about some things called artifacts . Terry showed us the bedroom downstairs and showed us the bedroom upstairs. She told us that the pantaloons that the women wore when they wanted to go to the toilet had to be undone at the back and done up again.
Then we had a look at the kitchen where we saw some puzzles. They said that they used them to entertain themselves when it was a rainy day. They also showed us how they washed their clothes. They used a washing board and they also learned how to knit jumpers.
They also had this special cup for the men to protect their mustaches from getting wet when drinking their tea.
Then we went upstairs. We had to be careful because the stairs were very narrow. We checked up in the rooms. They kind of looked like attic rooms because of the space in the roof. It looked like they used to sail a lot we also saw a big anchor it was huge and there was a map of what New Zealand looked like back then.
I loved our trip to the stone cottage because now I know a little bit more about the cottage.
