"Feast days were a day to showcase ability, no matter how small a holding or village," she chuckled softly. "Only Dame Gacia did such, in the Abbey, though my mother aided in the few years she lived, as fancy work of many types is often learnt by ladies of standing." Such as it were? "Frozen is a term I know, but I do not know Ramen. Is it a cut of meat?" Such that the 'top' portion was inferior?

Ah. She blinked. "Reading, embroidery, making non-necessary things in the stillroom such as new perfumes for the dames to try or scented candles..." Such were certainly leisurely, yes? "The...Abbess came when our eldest passed. She was displeased with the isolation and quiet of Rhystead, wishing for the prestige of larger places. She was...kind to those ladies of blood that came with her, the daughters learning before being wed. But she was unkind to my elderly dames, selling their small treasures for her own ends and she was unhappy with me. But these are...matters lords do not wish to worry on, and certainly not ones I have proof to hand."