Working with one of the schools on Vikings.
Had a great day, but I am knackered now. I had three one hour long groups. They were great kids who knew a fair bit before I got there. It is really funny though, how they confuse the Up Helly Aa guisers with Vikings. I was chastised by one small boy for not wearing a sheepskin and not having any furry boots 😱.
To save time getting there I drove down in my soft kit 😁
Bogenwald 
Lookin pretty serious there! Reminds me of back when I trained in martial arts (long, long, long ago). Our instructor was a super nice guy, and talking to him, you couldn’t imagine him hurting a fly.
He calls me up front for a demonstration one day. I go up, we get in position, while he talks to the class. Then he’s ready to demonstrate, he turns to me, locks eyes, and gives me the ‘I’m going to kill you’ gaze. Funny how people can just turn that on and off.
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Yeah, I know that feeling… in re-enactment we had some guys in the group you would see the red mist descend. They didn’t last long as we were using pointy sticks.
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Most impressive. One look at that and I think I would chose flight over fight!
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I am nice really 😂
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That is really great- must be rewarding to get into schools and share the love of history.
Cheers,
Pete.
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it is really great, they try to stop me going in as they would rather my arse polished a chair. But somehow I am still managing to sneak out 🙂
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Looking good!
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