I have seen this one several times and while it's cute and fun, don't believe everything you read. Any of you who have ever seen a thatched-roof house will know that maybe a cat could get up there, but unless your dog has wings, there ain't no way. Bugs, birds, twigs, dirt, yes---- the same problems people had with sod houses on the Nebraska plains in the 1800s.

The part about the tomatoes is NOT true. Tomatoes didn't even make it to England until the LATE 1500s and even then only as an ornamental plant. It would be nice to believe that people of the 1500s had the technology to discover that tomatoes had acid that leached poison out of their plates. If they even knew lead was poisonous they probably would not have used pewter to make plates.

People of the past generally didn't bathe very much since hauling water was a time-consuming affair. The wealthy could afford to bathe more than the poor but I imagine they probably bathed more than once a year, even if it was just a dip in the creek out back. I read that people thought Wild Bill Hickok was eccentric because he insisted on a bath every day - still not a common occurrence in the 1860s. :)