In June we were lucky enough to go to the Medieval Joust at Cardiff Castle, although not many members turned up a good time was had by all. We started the day by looking at the sword fighting training school. We made the climb up the keep and took in the surroundings of all the activities. From here, after the climb back down, we headed over to the story telling where one of our own members tried pulling the sword from the stone, without much success.
We then joined the ladies to learn about the different crafts and materials they would have made, this was mainly spinning, felting and making clothes. Time for a bit more action and we were spectators in the combat display, where they talked to us about the armour and also techniques in armoured combat. One of our members then had a go at the drill the soldiers back then would have taken part in.
Medieval cookery and herbalism was our next stop. Here we saw the living history group cooking up food for the people involved using original recipes, unfortunately we didn’t get to try any. The herbalism talk was interesting and we learnt about how to make a mouth wash, purified water and rose water.
At midday it was time for the joust; this was really good and got everybody involved. We were on the blue team and unfortunately they lost to the older and wiser red team.
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