S.W.A.S.H event at Royal Armouries in Leeds, January 2007

[Paul]

And I concur with heaping shame on anybody who has not been to the Armouries and claims to be into swords. It pisses on any other collection I have seen. Even within the M25 Matthew.

Meh. It's in Leeds for f*ck's sake... Who ever visits Leeds???

I wonder if I'm still breifly visible on the ECW video there? I look really fierce. Which is odd as I was screaming in terror as I nearly ploughed down the camera man on a horse that knew who was the boss. (We both knew it wasn't me)

Probably made for a good shot!

[admin]

But best of all no meeting for Ian so I can actually drink on Friday night!

Bugger. I didn't know drinking in the meeting would be frowned upon. Ah well, I can live with being frowned upon.

[admin]

I wonder if I'm still breifly visible on the ECW video there? I look really fierce. Which is odd as I was screaming in terror as I nearly ploughed down the camera man on a horse that knew who was the boss. (We both knew it wasn't me)

For anyone who is not aware, yes reenactors do tell the same stories thousands and thousands of times. And yes, Nigel is a reenactor.

[The Salmon Lord]

To be fair even my mother is no fan of Leeds and she was born there.

But its like a lot of northern cities. A whole lot better than it used to be.

PS by hour five of the meeting your bladder will wish it you had not drunk so much!

[Leather Nurse]

So then chaps, who is going to be first to tell us what happened this weekend? Any dirty gossip? Seriously, was it a good event?

[admin]

It went great - probably the best UK event that I have been to. I think this definitely promises to become an annual institiution. However, I am too tired to give more details right now! I have got sh*t loads of photos though - from the event itself, but also tons of close-ups of outstanding items in the armouries. These shall of course all be going in our gallery in due course.

[Kim Young]

It was definitely a most excellent weekend!
Great to meet some of you guys, at last. Hope to be able to attend your event in the summer and meet the rest of you.

Kim

[scholadays]

Ow.

Me hurt.

Me hurt much.

[Fab]

Ow.

Me hurt.

Me hurt much.

Sounds like you had fun, then.

I'm so jealous.

[admin]

John from the ASG is rather handy with a singlestick - so handy in fact that at the moment I am not handy at all . Word of advice - try to get hit anywhere other than right on the funny bone!

[scholadays]

Word of advice - try to get hit anywhere other than right on the funny bone!

Oh no, you didn't get hit on the funny bone.

You got hit on the less well known 'Not So Funny Bone'


How was the drive?

[admin]

Apart from the snow, the sleet, the hail, the torrential rain, the drizzly sticky rain, the wind, the mist and the frost it was fine. Only took us 4 hours to get back, which considering we were stuck at 45mph a lot of the way was pretty good. We stopped at services to get KFC and found most of Linacre sheltering there.

[Caz]

Apart from the snow, the sleet, the hail, the torrential rain, the drizzly sticky rain, the wind, the mist and the frost it was fine. Only took us 4 hours to get back, which considering we were stuck at 45mph a lot of the way was pretty good. We stopped at services to get KFC and found most of Linacre sheltering there.

By 'eck that were a bit of a stinker.... fine once we cleared south of Nottingham, but very tiring..

the weekend? fantastic..

tired panda...

[scholadays]

We stopped at services to get KFC and found most of Linacre sheltering there.

Oh, didn't you know? That's where Linacre actually live.

All this Oxford waffle is just a front. The Linacre School of Defence actually live and train in a Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food resturant at a service station just off the Motorway. They all share a room above the third loading bay from the left. You know, the one next to the waste compactor. But the waste compactor makes so much noise at night that most are forced to stay awake and train during the small hours in the car park amongst the trucks, whilst others make the rent by working dishing out deep fried chicken and chips to the hungry truckers. At about 2:30am they all swap shifts.

It's common knowledge.

[Caz]

Y'see, after the whole "Hitler was just overtired" conversation on Friday, that is worryingly believable...

sometimes, dear fellow, you scare me

[Neil Cardy]

Yes an excellent weekend, got home at 2am, (alarm at 6am came as a nasty suprise!) Currently running on caffine and sugar.

Good to meet some of Schola eventually after hanging around here so much, I wish I'd had the chance to chat/freeplay more with you. However, Gordon did leave his mark on my forearm

Hope to see you guys again sometime later this year.

I'll be adding a load of photos to the ASG site later this week, I'll post the link once they are up.

Cheers

Neil

[scholadays]

Yes an excellent weekend, got home at 2am, (alarm at 6am came as a nasty suprise!) Currently running on caffine and sugar.

Good to meet some of Schola eventually after hanging around here so much, I wish I'd had the chance to chat/freeplay more with you. However, Gordon did leave his mark on my forearm

On just your forearm?

Damn.

[Rorro]

Has been nice to see you again!!!!
Is alwais a pleasure.

And fight, of course. (Hurts so much, Gordon )

[scholajo]

It was nice to have met you, this time!

[The Salmon Lord]

Ay twas excellent.

Saturday in particular was great. Sunday I felt less chipper (not just booze)

The fact that at any one time there where usually two things I wanted to do shows quite how good it was. So I never got to hold originals or take part in the Vadi class.

Also given how "unusual" the system Gareth taught it was very interesting to see how few people objected. I think there is much more of a desire to learn and to see different things now than there used to be. Another sign of growing maturity.