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Thu 01 Mar 2007
House Inspection - the fellow knocks, walks in the front door, pans, walks out again. Not very thorough but hey, who are we to complain.

Fri 02 Mar 2007
Hooray! Jen's workplace is part of the small consortium which will be building the Olympic Village in 2012. Wow!
After work we go to "Bootcamp" using a hire car. Steve (Alaric) heads one of the four teams of fighters, and is one of the four teachers for the weekend.
Notice the amusing names in his team...

We sleep overnight at Deb and Clancy's place.

Sat 03 Mar 2007
Steve goes back to site to fight and teach. Jen stays at Deb and Clancy's, as there's a "war widows" going on, which is to say, all non-fighter types hanging out doing arts n crafts type things.
Later on Steve comes back and we enjoy the evening's goings-on. On the way back to our hosts' place, we observed the lunar eclipse!


Sun 04 Mar 2007
Steve goes back to site again to help with authorisations and get in some pick-up fights.

Fri 09 Mar 2007
Not much happened over the past week. Have been successfully keeping the spending down, in anticipation of buying a new engine for our van. Decided to put in a 'letter of intent' to fight Crown tourney in a month's time. Will only allow ourselves to actually fight the tourney if we're both employed - so we will see what happens.

Sat 10 Mar 2007
Jenny (Edith) is an excellent recent addition to the local SCA group. She also happens to be an official London city tour guide. So, she takes us on a walk to see Medieval London. Here we are in front of the Tower of London.

One of our early stops was St Dunstan-in-the-East. Its a lovely little church that was apparently bombed in WWII and it was decided that, rather than restoring it, the space would become part of the city's green-spaces. So its a very charming jungle-ruin in the midst of modern architecture.


We did see many fabulous things on the way including the Temple of Mithras ruins (Roman), and the London Stone. Toward the end of the tour we stopped at the Guildhall, a 14th century secular building in old London, with a Indian-medieval-esque facade slapped on the front in the 19th century.

On our search for a pub, we walked past St Paul's Cathdral. Still haven't been inside yet (except the crypt) and my word the place is huge. Hopefully the following snaps will give you some indication of its scale.



Further along we walked, in our serach for a pub that serves food on a Saturday night in a smoke free environment. We walked along Fleet Street. Here there's a dragon statue marking the entrance to London city from Westminster city.

The royal courts looked lovely too.

Finally we walked all the way to Holborn, to our regular watering hole - The Shakespeare's Head.

Here are some of our fellow tourists enjoying a meal in the pub after a hard afternoon's stroll. :-)


Mon 12 Mar 2007
During this week Lauren (our Tasmanian house guest) gets a few interviews - with placement agencies, etc.