Gentlemen do silly things.

During the Christmas break I treated myself to a Elderflower juice drink in a fancy bottle, however I didn't get to drink it during the holiday, last week I poured myself a big glass full and it was horrid really bitter, but I hate wasting stuff so persevered and drank the glass and left the rest in fridge, later I had a headache and wondered if the drink contained something that didn't agree with, that's when a read the label Elderflower Cordial dilute 1 part to 10 parts water, yuck, its actually quite nice once diluted.



Facebook came alive last week with a big bunch of old friends from my past medieval life finding me, its quite good really since its nice to hear from them and see the old photos they have dug up of me. I think of Facebook as a lightweight fun place to keep in touch with friends ( and provide sellers with information about me to pop adverts at me ) not a place do anything else with, but it does let you link up with and find old friends simply because its so popular, something that Friends re-united never was.

Talking of old photos here are few from Gentlemen of Honour a reenactment group that only lasted year and involved me travelling to London several times for rehearsals, the group would have gone far and was very popular with English Heritage unfortunately the majority of the group based in London wouldn't commit to another year and so the organiser couldn't commit to EH so the group folded just like that. I did get to use the costume a few years later for LARP though.

Photos of me sporting a pony tail and firing a real antique black powder pistol



Me and Barbara chatting about the period in front the audience.


Setting the scene.


Me and Captain Pete

Games and games

I have just had one atrocious day at work because of sickness, holidays, and a site visit I was the only one in a busy office normally with 6 people, so with the radio for company I did nothing but answer the phones and try to work out how do other peoples jobs I'm not familiar with, needless to say the day was tiring and I did not do any of my own projects, went quick though it was lunch before I remembered to drink my tea made at 8am.

My weekend on the other hand was very lazy, I seemed to have spent most of it in Chimera shop chatting to Andy and others while playing card games, on Saturday Andy was shattered having run a competition MTG card tournament Friday night which did not finish until 1.30am, he then tried to have a lie-in unfortunately its sounds like his kids had other ideas.

Sunday I entered the 2nd MTG sealed deck competition not being available for the Friday night epic, this started at 10am and lasted until 3pm when the shop was due to be taken over by Yu-Gi-Oh players. In the competition I think I came around 12th out of 16 players, not very good really but sealed deck competitions do rely a lot on luck, I did not have bad luck but some people had very very good luck just pulling out the correct mana at right time to play that perfect wining card.

To complete my lazy weekend I also purchased my 1st computer game since World of Warcraft three years ago, (Yes it was a cold dark wet windy day) the game was called Spoor and recommended by psychichazard. I'm not entirely sure why I bought but as well as psychichazard recommending, I was listening to the radio and presenter who was enjoying the game, and I then spotted it in Sainsbury's while looking at DVDs. In the game you evolve your creatures from spoor to space faring race with every stage in between, evolving your spoor, then creature with pincers, cats ears, shark like mouths, suckers, long necks, anything you can think of. The only downside to this tale is after 3 hours of play the game kept crashing at a certain point, the point my race had discovered fire, which stopped me playing and I can't get my enthusiasm back at the moment. May give it go tonight.