Caesar never made it to Great Northern War.  He was supposed to come, but inclement weather and not being sure if he was allowed on site, coupled with the fact that someone would have to keep an eye on him the whole time caused us to leave him at home.

Given that the original plan was that he was supposed to accompany us to GNW I had, of course, made him a suitable (suitably silly that is) outfit to attend the event.  Which has never seen the light of day :S   In an equally silly mood one afternoon a few weeks later I wrote up a ‘How To Bedeck Your Best Friend in an Heraldic Outfit’ and then promptly did absolutely nothing with that either!.

It is however, now uploaded on my website along with some very silly pictures… and can be found here should anyone be in the mood for some stuff and nonsense.

GNW has come and gone and now I’m left feeling decidedly at loose ends.  After all the busy work of the last few weeks with the bee stenciling and bee and ermine motif’s being embroidered and the whole gown construction thing…. this morning I am wandering around the house a bit like a lost soul really.  I don’t have any more projects on the boil… unbelievable as that sounds.

Here’s some pics from GNW… I particularly loved the Flame Tourney the ran on Friday night – such a great ambiance with fires at our backs to keep warm and the flames illuminating the list field.  Sometimes tournaments can be a little boring to watch but my wonderful consort 

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was in town for the event and having someone fight in your honour makes the experience so much more enjoyable.  I must have been particularly inspiring as he won the tourney which was a wonderful start to the weekend.

On Saturday I somehow managed to sleep in (must have been the drugs) and was awoken by Mr K and my Mum etc turning up.  Then it was a bit of pfaffing around trying to sort out the logistics of the laurelling thing because it looked like rain.  Rain was the LAST thing we needed given the whole get up we’ve been working on… I wouldn’t have wanted to take the canopy out in the rain and certainly not the heraldic frock we’ve been working on for the last week.  Luckily the rain held off and so all was well with the world.  The court went ahead and we all looked extra fabulous and most definitely were all ‘covered in beez as per the master plan!  🙂

 

 

The ceremony was lovely, Mistress Acacia spoke on my behalf and said some lovely things which strange as it sounds makes you a little embarrassed… not sure why.  Perhaps we don’t tell people often enough what we think of them… their work etc.  I felt really calm but must have appeared rather nervy as my mouth was dry (from the drugs) and my hands were shaking (also from the drugs).  Nevermind.

After the court I managed to get the gang to sit still for 15 mins to take some group portraits and even a couple of family shots.

 

Then there was way too much drinking on Saturday night … lead by the King and his Jager-bombs (yuk) and lots of people sleeping in on Sunday which was another fun day – War was on and Lorcan was knighted which was fantastic. And now we’re all dead tired and I’m in need of a new project!
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There’s this saying about biting off more than you can chew…