Last weekend we went to Linlithgow to see the jousting. (The post is so delayed because I've been up in bed with a fever of 99.6 since then. Everyone else got it for one day and I had it for half a week.)
Linlithgow palace was built by James I. He had just returned from England with lots of new ideas about ruling; these included 'civilizing' the Scots by outlawing soccer and late-night drinking. He was then promptly killed by his nobles. This is a striking example of just how far humanity has progressed.
Whose idea, by the way, was it to add this hideous thing onto the top of the castle? Why? Why, I ask?
It was the Historic Scotland Society doing the reenactments again. (Actually, this time it was more of a tournament than reenactments.) We arrived just too late for Maeve to do the foam swords again; however, she did get to march around with a severed head.
There was staff wrestling...
... 'belly boxing', where you try to knock the other person out of the square using only your stomach (tell me wearing chain mail is cheating),
primitive-style soccer (no rules, just get the ball between the posts), ...
