Balingup Part I
September 13, 2008
Filed under:Lotso Pics
Time for another random update that begs the question, “Why does it take so long for him to update?” or even “Why does he only do so when he’s got enough pictures to clog my bandwidth and raise the roof on my interwebs?”
A few weeks ago was the annual Balingup Medieval Faire, and The Grey Company nerds made it most excellently awesome once again. The fella that took most of these has them on copyright, so I’m going to say that here as well as show the first image on the CDs he put out to the club… just to show off a little too. Heh.

The two shows we put on on the Saturday were a nice little history lesson on England in the year 1066. First off was some Vikings coming in to try and take over because the Kingery was in some question.

That’s me starring as about the only Viking idiot not in chainmail. I grin because I’m so tough.

Then, I’m so tough that I let others run ahead of me.

Here I’m so damn tough that I let them fight and die too.

Then, they decided that I was so tough I had to fight too.

See? Tough.

Alright, all kidding aside. THIS is tough. This is my brother-in-law, the Doc, who spends most of his days being so nerdy that he nerds harder than any nerd that ever nerded. On his off-time, he’s about the biggest badass out there (fighting as Saxon against us Vikes).
And yeah, he killed me again.

But not before I kilt all these buggers.
Alright, no I didn’t, but I DID kill him too even if there’s no photographic evidence of this.
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The second show was about the invading Normans who went after the Kingness weeks after the Saxons whupped up on the Vikings. If you know your history, you’ll know they laid the whuppin’ this time.

The show opened with some nasty Norman Knights setting fire to villages and terrorising the wee folk in an effort to get King Harry to bring his Saxons out to fight.
That’s my nieces and sis-in-law pretending to be scared of me while I don’t really have to pretend at all to be a vicious brute.

A couple of the Saxon Fyrd cruised in to protect the innocent farmer types that I was busy poking with my sword.
So I poked him too, only really hard.

And then taunted his dying self. It was awesome.

There were lots of little fights, setting up the story, and then we had a big one, during which King ‘arold gets an arrow in ‘is eye.

I brutally slay another Fyrd and then helped hack up the body of Ol’ King ‘arold.

Who is dead on the ground at the NEW King’s feet. Doc got to play William, Duke of Normandy, and was proclaimed King of All England when we were done killing ‘arold lots.
Ham that he is, the Doc had me believing that he really was the New King, though that may have more to do with the fact that he’s always ordering me around anyway.
Awesome fun, and the rest of the pics are in the next installment - Balingup Part II.
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September 15th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
hmmm nice pics and story!
You were saying that the Doc is a ham?
Maybe you have caught a dose of ham also, methinks…
Derek
P.S. nice little site you have here.