Meh! Where’d my weekend go? It was so short… I guess thats cause it was so good. Friday night I got home and had a sudden inspiration to create a gift for the soon to be Baronial couple to welcome into their reign. 3 hours later, after having hand-carved our baronial device into a soapstone mould to make 25 pewter tokens (yes, 1 for every year of our wonderful barony), I headed off to the airport to pick up Mette. When we got home, we spent a few hours preparing for the tourney and feast. Mette kindly hemmed a viking cloak for me out of a lovely wool I purchased in Melbourne last time I was there, and I spent the evening cleaning up all the tokens I had created and patina-ering them.

After our late-ish night, it was a relief to wake up on Saturday and find that the Tourney was cancelled, disapointing, but at least we didn’t need to rush. This turned out to be a mistake… as going back to bed became an option and then we were once again rushed. I had a pouch to make for 25 Tokens… and Mette had stuff she needed to finish. We ended up turning up at the hall about 90 minutes later than I would have hoped.

The Feast was magnificent! Loads of good simple food… it was well an truely a feast fit for a King, good thing we had one on hand. Bethan out did herself with organising and running it. There were many many awards presented, all richly deserved. Though Adam the Renegade’s award was well deserved, it is an insult that he was given an award against his wishes. I cannot get my head around it… And I must admit I was so caught up in the happiness of someone who so richly deserves an award, that I feel guilty that I went up and congradulated him afterwards… This was not a good thing, and my mind now keeps running over what I should have done instead. It’s hard respecting Adams wishes, yet thinking that there aren’t many other people who I would like to see awarded as such.

I also had an interesting proposal from a friend, one for a few months away, but one that I shall certainly be thinking about for some time. It’s very tempting, but there are things that need to be thought about. Other thoughts and feelings that need to be worked out… but there’s plenty of time… Anyway…

Yesterday was a rather short day for some reason… After sleeping in for a bit, I taught Mette how to make pewter castings. Offering a bit of soapstone up for her to carve, and then take home with her to cast more when she wanted. We made some buttons with the Viking symbol for the Tree of Life on them. They turned out very nice, and I have 10 of them to stick on some of my own garb. I was going to attempt to make a shotglass sized drinking container, but time was running out, and Mette had a plane to catch.

Ahhh well… More later maybe…