Elsewhere, someone is selling a 16thC helmet [replica, not real, obviously] called a Burgonet.

I don't do any 16thC re-enacmtent [yet].

But it's so pre-e-e-e-tty.

This weekend someone lied to me ( Read more... )

Last month, we attended the fabulous Jane Austin Regency Ball in Bath ( Read more... )

This is a photographic sequence of our cannon being fired at Caldicot Castle in South Wales last month.

To observers it just seems as if there is a loud bang and rush of smoke.

This is what happens faster than the human eye can follow:

( BOOM!..... )

At the weekend Jackie and I traveled to Edinburgh for a medievally themed wedding.
We had new posh clothes for the occasion; and we're quite pleased with them.


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The car park at work is on quite a steep slope ( Read more... )

The first parcel I received today contained Gorilla Glue ( Read more... )

Normally planning an event, especially a new event, takes about a year, although with a bit of organisation you can probably do it in 6 months ( Read more... )

Even in my rather unusual life, it's not every weekend that I get to hang out with the King, the Prince of Wales and the Dukes of Glouster, Sommerset and Devon.

And yet here I am doing just such....

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This weekend Jackie and I have built a couple of medieval style carts ( Read more... )