Sunday 14 August 2016

There's nothing like a bit of shooting and a jolly good fight at the weekend.

This will be a short blog bloggees, apologies, but Lady Eadwynn has totally worn Baggy out today. Calum and she have been at the East Anglian Museum of Rural Life for the second (and final) day of the living history fair. The place is HUGE. Seventy-five acres apparently and Clever Bird wanted to explore. Having done her Masters degree in archaeology and chosen to undertake her dissertation on Open Air Museums, she was keen to have a look. But repeat, it is HUGE. And in little soppy (smooth-bottomed) eleventh-century turn-shoes, it's also challenging walking. So Baggy's ankles are currently a little larger than previously.

The show, for some reason, wasn't supposed to open until 11.00am today and Lady Eadwynn and Calum were there at 9.00, so they decided to do a bit of archery. Baggy has not shot an arrow for around two years, and certainly not since her surgeries, so Freda Fretter was a little concerned, but Baggy coped surprisingly well.


Her arm was fine, it was her old collar-bone injury that was worst. But she enjoyed it, even though she only hit the boar a few times and had two arrows shatter on her - one split in half by Calum's arrow; the other broken, when the boar target she had hit, fell over and snapped it. Grrrrr!


Perhaps she shouldn't have shot her husband though.


Mind you, that was nothing compared with the fighting he undertook with the Vikings today! To say that it was full-on and that Calum had a large grin on his face doesn't begin to cover it. Whether he will actually be able to walk tomorrow remains to be seen. There are so many purple, swollen bits of his body already, that Clever Bird thinks he might just be a tad stiff!



It has been a thoroughly enjoyable weekend. Grotty Groom even managed a cuddle in the paddocks with her Boys on the way home.........

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