Nov 2011 b

Fri 18 Nov 2011

Alex of Derlington, Steve's newest squire, arrived late tonight, having travelled down from Aberdeen (known to Alex as Mordor).

Sat 19 Nov 2011

Morning fighter practise session with (His Highness) Robert de Canterbury (Dan), many new things for Alex to soak up.

And after lunch, Dan headed off to the local SCA revel, meanwhile Steve and Alex went shopping for dinner and staunchly did an afternoon fighter training session just the both of them.

Jen decided she simply had to put up the Christmas tree!  In the evening, Steve cooked up a mighty fine lamb dish with roast veggies, which was followed by some drinking and chatting about "chivalry and stuff" ensued until the wee hours of the morning.

Sun 20 Nov 2011

A final late morning training session before Alex headed back up north. Bye Alex, see you again soon!

Tue 22 Nov 2011

This morning Jen took the Porsche in to have a fitting kit inserted, which will allow for a hardtop (car roof) to be put into place and used. Don't have the hardtop yet, but its only a matter of time.

Tonight Steve headed to the other side of town and spent a few hours learning about and practising carving roasts and various joints of meat.

Wed 23 Nov 2011 

Steve headed off to fighter practice to continue the training of Robert and others. Its nice to see "new tricks" being added to people's repertoires.

Fri 25 Nov 2011

So today we had the day off work. We got up early, arrived at Deb and Clancy's for a second breakfast and to car pool with them up to northern Wales for Richard's big 50th birthday bash. Richard had hired a fancy manor house by the sea, for a week long celebration with friends. The Friday night party theme was 70s and 80s David Bowie type attire. Sorry didn't take photos!

Sat 26 Nov 2011

This morning Jen awoke with a sore ankle (must have slept on it funny) and so Clancy and Deb did some sight seeing at the nearby Conwy Castle without us. Meanwhile at the manor house, Richard was gleefully watching DVDs from Steve's Hammer Horror (etc) collection... which included the original Flash Gordon (Buster Crabb), Fu Man Chu, and Hawk the Slayer.

Finally dusk fell and it was time to get changed for the evening's theme of Hellfire Club, which is to say, 17th century attire. Semi-military for the men, and corsetry for the ladies. Here are photos of our hired costumes:

Sun 27 Nov 2011

This morning on the way back to Deb and Clancy's we stopped in at the Wroxeter Roman City and reconstruction of a roman townhouse.

After a mighty fine meal at the nearby Horseshoe Inn pub, we also did a spot of gift-shop shopping at the Attingham historic house. 

Fially, we arrived back at Deb and Clancy's place (near Cambridge) and played a couple of games of 500 (cards) before finally getting ourselves back home in London.