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Food was slowly changing. They still ate meat from pigs and cows but these animals were not hunted, they were domesticated and lived with the people. They grew crops like wheat, barley, rye and oats and, if they were on the coast, they still went fishing. Now they had plates and beakers, more of their meals were stews or porridge and they also made their own bread. To do this you would take some of the grain you had stored away and put it on a flattish stone. Next you would push and pull another stone backwards and forwards over the grain until it became flour. The bread would be cooked on stones that had been heated in a fire first. Sometimes these hot stones would be added to water or other liquids to make the liquid boil quicker. I find it exciting how people discovered this. Farming, as we have said before, did not start in England but news of new crops and what to do with the various vegetables and grains would have spread across from mainland Europe. It was almost always a case of “make your own”. There were really no shops so that families and communities ate whatever they made and all the family would join in with the process. Children would help feed chickens and geese and collect the eggs. It seems that they didn’t eat these chicken and geese but just used them for feathers and eggs. I always get a bit worried when I know humans eat things that fly. It makes me fly that little bit faster.

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