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York Roman Festival
Aug. 4th, 2006 04:06 pmComitatus, Dateline 306 A.D.
After the triumph of the anniversary and dedication, we had a nice quiet weekend at Barley Hall. Well, quiet apart from the mad, drunken karaoke from next door 'til 4a.m. each morning. I may have been a bit tired.
Great fuddle on Friday in the big hall, with Constantine in the window & the passers-by interested, confused or, in one case, scared witless. Slept in the great chamber (briefly), & put a display together with the aid of Victor's bow lathe, which I got working quite well.
We made forays for pasties & ice cream, handing out the hand bills Helen had printed up for us, lurking outside the Roman Bath and ogling the superb gladiators from the Hungarian Collegium Gladiatorium
Some of Helen's friends who were over for her writing weekend came by & got the full personal tour & were very impressed with the long haired barbarians in the arena.
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Sunday arrived all too soon, but we centralised all of the displays in the great hall and had a relaxed time of it. I watched the gladiators again with Helen & some of the girls & I think a new wave of fans were born. With the help of Cynric & Viventia I achieved my afternoon goal of using my new saw to shorten the adze handle I'm working on & we worked in shifts to get all the kit out to Swinegate for pickup.
( Kit bit: )
After the triumph of the anniversary and dedication, we had a nice quiet weekend at Barley Hall. Well, quiet apart from the mad, drunken karaoke from next door 'til 4a.m. each morning. I may have been a bit tired.
Great fuddle on Friday in the big hall, with Constantine in the window & the passers-by interested, confused or, in one case, scared witless. Slept in the great chamber (briefly), & put a display together with the aid of Victor's bow lathe, which I got working quite well.
We made forays for pasties & ice cream, handing out the hand bills Helen had printed up for us, lurking outside the Roman Bath and ogling the superb gladiators from the Hungarian Collegium Gladiatorium
Some of Helen's friends who were over for her writing weekend came by & got the full personal tour & were very impressed with the long haired barbarians in the arena.
( Read more... )
Sunday arrived all too soon, but we centralised all of the displays in the great hall and had a relaxed time of it. I watched the gladiators again with Helen & some of the girls & I think a new wave of fans were born. With the help of Cynric & Viventia I achieved my afternoon goal of using my new saw to shorten the adze handle I'm working on & we worked in shifts to get all the kit out to Swinegate for pickup.
( Kit bit: )
