Driving home from Double W

We are now on the first part of our journey home--we left site after dinner and dropped C off at the Hässleholm train station at 20:00. I took the first shift mapping, lord_kjar drove, and my minion is in the passenger seat keeping him company. After two hours of rest I needed to pee, so we stopped, but he was good to keep driving, so I will take the opportunity to see how much of the event I can remember.

I think I will work backwards...

Today was the SCA visit to Hovdala castle, where our fighters did a combat demo, our archers did archery stuff, costumers did a fashion show, and the rest of us picniced in a pretty setting. I wore my new bliuat, as the only 12th Century entry for the fashion show. The only one with earlier period garb was Duchess Siobhan in her Finnish Iron Age loveliness.

We also did some shopping at the market, and now have: a short lenght of very thin wool to make a new veil (to replace the even nicer very thin wool veil I lost in Australia--sadly they don't make that stuff anymore), some hooks for my Viking leg wraps, a small bone needle suitable for nålbinding with fine yarn, a tiny wooden box suitable for holding lotion, a bronze ring with knotwork on it to replace the thimble-ring I have been using for years--that one is pewter, and getting rather chewed up, and C bought a ring, a hair pon, and a wooden plate from the same wood turner who made the bowls he and I bought two years ago.

Yesterday (Friday) I spent much of the day playing dulcimer or letting others play with it or the moraharpa. There was a grand court in the evening, the highlight of which was a Pelican ceremony, for a much loved Countess who has run Double Wars for multiple years.

In the evening was the banquet, which I didn't bother getting tickets for, since I am never hungry in the evenings, but if the yummy custard that was served leftover for breakfast is representative then it must have been a good feast. After the feast wad the auction of last year's lost and found, which I did attend, but we didn't buy anything. Then I went to bed around 23:00, since I was tired. I am not certain how much later it was that C and lord_kjar came in.

Thursday was the day I managed to get the tablet weaving project I had selected yarn for two years ago onto tablets. I also played dulcimer and relaxed. We attended court, where the Crown had fun pulling the "the rest of you who just did a presentation may leave, but the Countess needs to kneel before us" trick before sending her on vigil for her Pelican. I would have loved to have attended the vigil, especially since I don't really know her, and such moments are good for getting a glimpse of who someone is, but I was sleepy, and went to bed at 22:00.

It is possible that I have the days as to which day was which court wrong above, but the phone doesn't lend itself well to editing posts; so I'll leave it stand for now.

Wednesday was the Laurel's Prize Arts and Sciences display, and all six or eight entrants did a great job, but the one that impressed me the most was the Baron of Stiringheim, who, with the help of many, was forging iron in a clay kiln they built on site, from limonite he had collected himself.

Now it is my turn to drive...