[TR] Triumphs doing strange things

[John Macartney <johnbmacartney@gmx.com>]

In my home town of Evesham in the U.K., the early part of August sees a weekend 
dedicated to a re-enactment of the Battle of Evesham in 1265. By all accounts 
it was a very bloody affair with neither side taking prisoners. This weekend 
sees the better part of 1,000 reenactors taking part with the inevitable 
mediaeval encampment, horses everywhere, tents everywhere and a pall of 
woodsmoke from a myriad campfires hanging over the town and under a continuous 
drizzle of rain of any Typically British summer day.
The reenactors and camp followers are taking things very seriously by dressing 
in period clothes, eating period food and some are even speaking Chaucerâ??s 
English. The whole scene is a backdrop of two handed swords, spears, pikes, 
longbows and what have you.
Imagine my surprise therefore when coming through the town last night to 
encounter a Spitfire and a Stag parked by the kerb. The bonnet was raised on 
the Spitfire and the bootlid open on the Stag with a large box of tools on the 
ground between. But it was the crews of these cars that intrigued me as they 
were all dressed a lâ??epoque de 1265 with swords, spears, clubs and longbows 
leaning against the two cars, while eating in their fingers from a number of 
opened packets of fish and chips strategically placed on two soft tops, as the 
Spitfire decanted itâ??s own smokescreen to add to that of the campfires. 
Iâ??m guessing a tourist would want to photograph this scene but to me it was 
all quite normal - just a bit of period confusion perhaps but so typically 
British.

Jonmac
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