Second attempt

Don't you just hate it when you have written a long story or e-mail or paragraph and you feel quite happy with it and then, bam!, your computer crashes and all is lost. I know, I know, I should have saved and saved and saved but sometimes you get carried away with your writing and forget, ok!
So last week-end when we came home from our visit to Blacktown Medieval Fayre I went almost straight to the computer and wrote a blog about it, while it was fresh in my memory.That blog entry is now gone somewhere into the unknown  and this will be a pale second go, with probably not as many details.

So this medieval festival that we went to was held in Nurrangingy reserve in Blacktown. It is a beautiful park with lots of space for such an event. There were ladies and knights and witches and monks and many buxom wenches as well as jesters and of course Robin Hood and Friar Tuck and many others. They also had stands demonstrating wood carving, blacksmithing, crafts and cooking.

The most exciting of all in my opinion was the jousting with a participant all the way from France. The knights jousted for a lady to whom they gave a ribbon, and Sir Michael from France was particularly gallant and kissed the hand of the lady he had chosen in the audience. It was very romantic!

This is the youngest participant, she is only eight years old. She
did very well even thought her mother has to run next to her.

This is the Best Dressed competition that took place just before
the jousting.The young man second on the left won the Best-
Dressed Women's category. I think the lady next to him should
have won, and I think so did she.It actually looks like he just
borrowed some of his mother's old hippy clothes.

Lady Catherine in all her splendor

I'll say goodbye for now and go and do some gardening. Right now in Sydney we have glorious sunny days but very cold nights and mornings, the coldest was 8 °C and let me remind you that many houses in Sydney have no heating so it is quite nippy.

However don't let that put you off coming to visit since it perfect for sightseeing.
See ya!