Looks at the lifestyle of a middle-class family in Tudor times. Children have an opportunity to compare the lives of rich and poor and look at differences in diet, work and entertainment. It is 1587. In Spain, Philip II is preparing to launch his great armada. In Sussex, modern schoolchildren Nell and Greg have joined the household of the local bailiff. Nell is his daughter and Greg is the son of the bailiff’s servants. There is plenty for them to do as the household prepares a feast to celebrate the betrothal of the bailiff’s oldest son. But as the day passes by Greg becomes increasingly conscious of the contrast between his life as a servant and that of Nell, the bailiff’s daughter.