Last weekend saw two more days of brilliant medieval fun at Nottingham Castle as it was this year’s Robin Hood Pageant (or the ‘Me Pageant’ as I referred to it from time to time )!.

As always there were a great many fabulous and entertaining groups, performers and traders there including always excellent Dogs of War, this year presenting a ‘medieval sports day’ intended to recruit children into Robin’s Merry Men (for instance in the photo I’m teaching a young outlaw archery), the Knights of Nottingham jousting show, good King Richard himself and a great new addition, the Nuns and Abbess of Kirklees Priory.

Sadly the weather on Saturday left a lot to be desired as it rained quite heavily and everyone got more than a little wet (except the King, of course) but even so the visitors – and there were still a lot - had a great time. Luckily the sunny (but blustery) weather on Sunday meant that even more people came and stayed for the shows, music, food and of course the marvellous beer tent!

I met some very interesting people and had my photograph taken so many times I lost count – including making the front page of the Nottingham Evening Post (and the inside too) and many thanks are due to Julie from Designcat for letting me use her always awesome photos!

You can read the Nottingham Evening Post review here!