July 19, 2007 at 4:43 pm (camping, children, life, re-enactment)
Well, that’s another year over. Just 2 more to go.
It was Maisie’s last day at school today, summer holidays* are here. So many people moan about them, but I just see the ability to actually have a lie in when I have my mid-week days off. In six weeks time Maisie will be in year 5, I can’t believe how fast life is going by! We have a few things planned though, Berkeley Joust this week and next week, a party next Saturday and one in August and Collicut Festival some other time, can’t remember when exactly.
I have almost finished making the medieval dresses. Mine in fact are completely finished, I just have to make Maisie’s over dress (tonight) and we’re sorted. I am very chuffed with myself as I had no pattern for either mine or Maisie’s dress, I just winged it and they have come out brilliantly so far. I even had to use eyelets!
*typically, summer holidays are here and the skies have turned black. Of course we’re camping this weekend too, doesn’t bode well does it?
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July 9, 2007 at 7:08 am (camping, children, friends, life, people, re-enactment)
I am shattered. This being after I spent the weekend at Tewkesbury under canvas for the Medieval Festival. My fiancé has been doing medieval re-enactment (War of the Roses) for 16 years now and I am about to join him. Not as a soldier though, just as a water wench re-hydrating the troops. All the people involved in such things are really nice, and it’s one of the few places I feel that Maisie is safe to go off and do things by herself as everyone knows she’s mine. Anyway I bought shed loads of fabric and this week I will be making mine and Maisie’s dresses. There is a white linen under dress and a navy/royal blue linen over dress. Arms have to be completely covered as do legs and hair. We just need pouches to go on our belts and I need a helmet as everyone on the field needs one. At least when I’m wearing that I shan’t get burnt, which I most certainly did this weekend, and I put loads of sun cream on too! Maisie helped some of the re-enactors put on their armour so it really made her feel part of it. It’s not often people treat her like a person rather than a child, but when people do they find that she’s a very helpful and witty person. Billy’s off to work with a fat lip and a swollen elbow and Maisie off to school full of excitement. I’m just glad I have today off as I ache all over.
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