Steve n Jen's UK adventures

UK and European adventures. Read on my pretties, and discover what two stray Aussies can get up to on their travels.......

13 June 2007

May 2007 b

Thu 17 May 2007
We meet up with Juana and Andrew at the Shakespeare's Head (pub). She was Queen of the West when we were Prince and Princess in 1996. We visited and stayed with them on our honeymoon, and they stayed with us on theirs, so now we've hung out with them on three continents!


Fri 18 May 2007
CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve drives the car home - hurray!!!! Yippee!!!! We'll see how reliable it is now...
They replaced the engine and its belts, and serviced/tuned the engine, plus looked after all the roadworthy stuff too - so its all good. And the mechanics charged us about 2/3 of what we were expecting to pay. So we had curry to celebrate.


Sat 19 May 2007
Steve goes to work - even though it's Saturday. Morde, Leisel and Giles go touristing.
Jen needs to find the "right" red fabric for new royal outfits. Having looked through the nearby local indian shops, she especially likes this...

Here's the plan for Coronation:


Jen also looks up the "curtain factory outlet" on the north-west side of town. She realises she has a thing for brocades - but she must be strong!


Above: The one on the right has the right sort of pattern and is the right colour combo, but if only it didn't look so "upholstery". In the end none of these fabrics was quite right.

Sun 20 May 2007
Breakfast....


We all go to the British Museum and spend a few hours there, looking at the Egyptian stuff and Sutton Hoo finds, mostly. And after a pleasant day, we head to The Globe Theatre and saw Othello. Percy from the Blackadder series, was playing the bad guy - very cool.

Above: Ignoring the fact Morde hates her photo taken, the globe is in the background on the right.
Below: All the world's a stage - and it really is a lovely theatre.


Above: After the play, we walked back over the Millenium Bridge toward St Paul's.

Mon 21 May 2007
Morde and Giles get the train back to Heathrow, and onward to Oz. Leisel helps out this evening with some Reign hand-sewing (a 'flying monkey' once more).

Tue 22 May 2007
Leisel now departs for a week stay in Cork (Ireland) with Gav and Angela. The house is once again empty - just the two of us.

Thu 24 May 2007
So, Jen finally gets back to work on the new Kingly shield.


Sat 26 May 2007
This weekend is our last at home, to work on Reign projects.
Jen sets off to buy the essential "red fabric" to complete our two coronation outfits. After a couple of hours she finds acceptable fabric - and successfully barters the vendor down, saving £70 the original price! Then loads of frantic sewing ensues.....
Steve wishes to use the new shield next weekend - so Jen works on that while delegating to Steve various projects.

Below: Finally, the shield is ready to be painted...


Mon 28 May 2007
The fabric Jen got on Saturday - all laid out and ready to be cut. It is one Sari each, with cotton under (to avoid being see-through). Sounds strange, but it should look gorgeous!


Thu 31 May 2007
Hurrah! The shield is done!

And the last thing to do is glue on three little strips at the top for cantoning, then its ready for use at the Winchester Pilgrimage, next wekend.

1 Comments:

Blogger merlyn said...

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh you lucky duck you get to go to fabric shops!!!!
I am so jealous!
beautiful sari fabric though - *sigh*

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