Monday 12 April 2010

History Boot Camp


Make Your Own Charcoal!

Or "What I Did At The Week End" by Flightless Bird, aged 13 and a half....(I wish!)

I drank a lot of good beer at £2 a pint and got ever so slightly sunburnt playing and learning stuff in a 96 acre playground. Stuff like bashing red-hot metal into useful things like a poker, how to link metal rings together to make maille, and how to safely load and fire a variety of black-powder weapons...

More photos at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27035664318

The Penguin

2 comments:

Joe Public said...

"......... learning stuff ....... like bashing red-hot metal into useful things like a poker....."

With your contempt for Mr Broon, you wouldn't be considering replicating the method of execution of Edward II would you?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_II_of_England

Hacked Off said...

Too good for him!!