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Saturday afternoon and evening: Bardic Revel, up at Mel's. So that meant Friday night cooking (a recipe for rabbit stew that I hadn't tried before, and was great) and chopping (the bits for Buttered Worts). Saturday, pack car with harp, sheet music, books of period stories, eating gear, garb, sleeping bag....
( In which I am stupid )

Easy drive up, had a great time, food well received, ability to tune harps appreciated, unpracticed random harp twiddling as background to dining enjoyed, and then a Real Harper (well, in comparison) borrowed my harp, and played pretty tunes on it. With both hands. And chords. Me impressed! There were stories, there was dancing, there was rummaging through my sheet music collection for dance music.

Stayed over that night, then most of the gang went to archery and I went to the TORM reenactment market. Met Dave there, and also Tony Horobin and family (plus lots of other people I hadn't actually arranged to meet), and picked up some bits that clothsprogs is lending me, via Tudor Tailors.

As a result of doing some research for my little sister, I now know a lot more about Elizabethan shoes than I used to (greater than zero is not hard).

I did not buy much. Honest. And almost all of it wasn't (directly) for me anyway, so it doesn't count.

Oh, did you want that rabbit recipe?
( Not really a recipe, but... )