After a brilliant but very hot weekend at Ashby de la Zouche Castle we are now really on a roll with the events and hols and will be off to Tintagel in Cornwall soon followed by North Wales then Spain for sitting in the jacuzzi with bubbly stuff!

Big thanks to the group for their support this weekend – especially to Kerry for coming all the way to get me and Jake and bring us back on Sun. Ellie has come back from Kosovo and has a a really good time – lots of social events as well as the work with the kids.

The pics below are from the event we did two weeks ago at Tewkesbury – you can’t really see clearly from the second pic but the King has the most fabulous goldwork on his surcoat. I love this event as it is such an amazing sight with all the armies and flags and the sheer scale of the market etc. I love, love, love re-enactment and can’t wait for the next two events – especially Bodelwyddan as that will be really special. I will be so sad when the season ends in September but at least I have Nepal to look forward to!

 

Well the Tewkesbury event was wonderful, weather was not too bad – rain on and off on Sat especially while we were waiting to go into battle which led all the boys to moan about rust – lots of WD40 needed.

My brother took loads of brill pics so will try and get them from him. On the domestic front have done little except try and paint so poor Jake can have a  bedroom again – carpet is coming tomorrow and then will do furniture building Fri and Sun so he can move in then. Then on the bathroom! Lucky I am an independant woman who knows one end of a screwdriver from the other though I am going to have buy my own power drill now.

Will try and take pics of finished build so you can see all my hard work.

Have just got back from 3rd weekend away in a row – this weekend was a Project Nepal building weekend, the previous two re-enactment events (see my tab for events this year for more details of the forthcoming events). Below is a pic of the event at Bodelwyddan Castle last August – unfortunately not quite as sunny this time.

All three have been very wet in parts , very muddy in parts but fab fun. It is so nice that we can be outdoors again and I am a very happy (if a bit tired and creaky) bunny. It has been wonderful to see all our friends and I am so looking forward to the rest of the summer. I feel very invigorated – so much so that even after all of the building I did this weekend I came home and did an hour of gardening! Now deserve much wine!

Have now finished our listing of events for this year so please click on the link at the top of the page for what we are doing in 2008. I have included links to the relevant web sites for the events so that you can find out price, time and travel info but if you need to know anything else please leave me a comment and I will get back to you. If you do come to an event please come and say hello – ask for Alison from the Order of Fighting Knights and someone should be able to tell you where we are.