Sunday, May 04, 2008

Fortified whine...

Today Finn dragged us around Helmsley Castle which, unsurprisingly, is located in Helmsley (a village popular with motorcyclists on a Bank Holiday Weekend if today was anything to go by). There was an English Heritage 'special event' taking place at the castle when we arrived - which appeared to mean that lots of people with learning difficulties had been asked to dress up in itchy medieval garments and shout a lot whilst occasionally strumming on ladels, banging 'knackers' (ie, the early forerunner of timpani) or performing in some frankly dreadful 17th Century Mummers plays. As a result of their presence the admission fee had been increased by £1. I'm of the opinion that the admission fee should have been reduced because I found their tents to be a real inconvenience but I'm sure medieval re-enactors would beg to differ. Anyway, it was all rather Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the medieval music (or possibly the smoke rising from burning medieval embers) made Finn cry. Sadly, Paul the giraffe was last seen trying to clamber his way out of a moat.

1 comment:

Bazza said...

Nice place Helmsley, but not a lot to do, apart from eating Fat Rascals from the local deli.