Gods I'm tired!

It's been a great couple of weeks, but they've been quite knackering.

Two weekends ago was my Viking event. It went well! Got a good turn out, managed it within budget, and none of the food was disgusting! The onion soup was perfect, the lamb stew was a bit too watery & veggie-heavy but still very nice, the apple crumble was a bit too dry but mmmmm tasty. And the fighting was fun, and the feast had lots of singing and quaffing and (somewhat bizarrely) a tombola. All good stuff!
And luckily I had a team of willing helpers chopping onions and cleaning up and setting up and stuff for me, so the whole experience was a lot easier than it could have been.

Then last weekend was the Oxford Uni Historical Re-enactment Society ("Wychwood Warriors")'s 20th anniversary feast. Another big Viking banquet- this time with 8 courses! Pea soup, cold meats & cheese, roast, cakes, bacon & mushrooms, fish pie, meat stew, cakes. Blimey. My girlfriend's the president of the society, so I did lots of driving her around and helping her make things. And the meal was a big success.
We both got a bit stressed, but it was lovely on Sunday when it was all over.


Right, onto my next project. Which is organising a Regency romance/politics/horror LARP weekend, entitled "Aliens & Alienation". Expect swooning young girls, dashing officers, fiercely intelligent ladies, arrogant gentlemen, mysterious magicians, sinister Cthuluesque plots and horrific slavering xenomorphs. Oh yes. It's Jane Austin's Aliens, with a side order of Temeraire/Sharpe/Strange&Norrell. Coming April 2009, hopefully. Once I find a site. And make a bunch of Aliens outfits. Oh gods.