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It was a good weekend, but I have a cold now. I'm not quite sure what this is down to, although I'm inclined to blame getting caught in the rain yesterday more than anything else. I'm in work all the same, snuffling and sneezing, and being told to keep away from people. The coughing has stopped, though, and my throat is getting less sore, so I think the Immune System of Doom is doing its thing.
The Medieval Fair was better than I had expected - there were tradespeople and re-enactors, and we met a very nice guy from the SCA, too. We did go about making contact with one of the other re-enactment groups too - Mullacht an Torc, or somesuch - but the guy in charge was so unpleasant that we decided to avoid them. The central events were OK, for the most part - archers who were competent if not as good as the Warwick Bowman from the weekend before, falconry, which we didn't pay that much attention to, and jousting, which looked cool but was a bit hammed up. And then there was the Medieval Baebes concert, plus signing, which was well worth waiting for. They were really really good.
I got a pair of leather bracers, and resisted the urge to buy everything else in sight, including pairs of gorgeous knuckle to elbow gauntlet/bracer things, which were just too expensive. I also spent quite some time watching the smiths there working - they had everything set up in proper medieval fashion, down to the coals on the ground with air pumped in through a clay tunnel from bellows. I was more than a bit fascinated.
There were a fair few people there in full kit, too - not just the people working there, but a good few of the attendants, down to one family of four who had two huge, gorgeous wolfhounds with them.
The Medieval Fair was better than I had expected - there were tradespeople and re-enactors, and we met a very nice guy from the SCA, too. We did go about making contact with one of the other re-enactment groups too - Mullacht an Torc, or somesuch - but the guy in charge was so unpleasant that we decided to avoid them. The central events were OK, for the most part - archers who were competent if not as good as the Warwick Bowman from the weekend before, falconry, which we didn't pay that much attention to, and jousting, which looked cool but was a bit hammed up. And then there was the Medieval Baebes concert, plus signing, which was well worth waiting for. They were really really good.
I got a pair of leather bracers, and resisted the urge to buy everything else in sight, including pairs of gorgeous knuckle to elbow gauntlet/bracer things, which were just too expensive. I also spent quite some time watching the smiths there working - they had everything set up in proper medieval fashion, down to the coals on the ground with air pumped in through a clay tunnel from bellows. I was more than a bit fascinated.
There were a fair few people there in full kit, too - not just the people working there, but a good few of the attendants, down to one family of four who had two huge, gorgeous wolfhounds with them.
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