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Hiya folks, this is just a wee blog tae let folks ken I`m no` deid!
I hae pictures o` the feast coming via a friend wha` took them, but she is touring Scotland just noo on her way back tae Ireland so it`ll be aroond Tuesday til I can post them on here. :-D
The feast was marvellous! Really fantastic, thanks largely tae the guid company o` equally guid friends and the fact we could `dress up` and let oor hair doon and that a`body came equipped wi` an assortment o` suitable sharp and pointy weapons....everybody had their ain sword! (and one fella also had a Viking axe, no` medieval but we didnae care)
So here was the menu....three roasted ducks, three roasted hens, strips o` wild Orkney hare (wild? Oh it was mad...har! sorry...daft wee joke there....ahem...) wi` a gravy made by Sanday Housewife that made the tastebuds water and complimented the hare completely. A large piece o` roasted pig as weel, roasted wi` vegetables and lemons and basted wi` butter and sage and parsley.
Then roasted vegetables drizzled and basted in lard, honey and `painted` wi` "Great Spice", a medieval mixture of rare spices which scented the whole meal wi` an exotic perfume and the taste had tae be savoured tae be believed.
Added tae that was Orkney cheeses, Yorkshire puddings, plain boiled new tatties, Cranachan (my ain recipe as follows ....dry roast a handful o` pinhead oatmeal til golden broon, whisk up two cartons o` double cream til light and fluffy, fold in a third o` a bottle o` guid whisky and a handful o` Scottish raspberries along wi` a half pound o` heather honey, spoon small handfuls o` raspberries intae glass dishes, add three/four dollops o` the cream/whisky/honey mixture, and top wi` the roasted oatmeal and more raspberries, heaven in a glass dish)
and the medieval alcoholic custard dish along wi` various puddings including one of my friends, which involved cream and chocolate.
Needless tae sae everybody was fu`!
Then there was the drink.....cream whisky liquer, mead and beer and mair whisky, oh aye, did I mention the whisky?
And chocolate.
Toasts were made and food was ate and fun was had and the music was great. We all had oor pictures taen wi` oor swords aloft (which is the posh way o` saying pointed in threatening manners at a` sorts o` imaginary enemies) and the room just set the fine, right scene, wi` the fireplace ablaze...at times, literally! and the candlelight aglow.
So, once me friend gets back tae Ireland she will send me the pictures and I will post them and ye can a` hae a right giggle at the `grown ups` playing dressup wi` real swords and axes and generally behaving in a reprehensible manner.

Oh but wha` would want tae get auld afore their time though, eh? *winks*

Aside frae that, we had archery. I killed a car! Tae be fair tae meself, it was parked right ahind the archery target and I just overshot a tiny peedie wee wee bit and hit the heidlight, which made a satisfying crash and tinkle sound...and aye, I was stane cauld sober at the time....
and it wouldnae hae been sae bad but I then went on tae hit the bumper again...
so noo, I am known as "car killer".....ahem......*blush*

and mair fun and merriment was tae be had, but I will save that for the next blog so as tae hae stuff tae write aboot when I post the pics. (having removed the maist embarrassing, to be sure, o` yours truly, especially the one o` meself wi` me backside sticking oot frae under the car trying tae retrieve yet another arrow.....)

And I still hae friends staying, so am no` online sae much as I would like the noo, so there will be mair archery and mair trips tae Sanday`s fine Belsair establishment (if they will let us back in after the last time, har!) and mair fun tae be had........
So Slainte tae a`body, hope everyone is having a grand time tae!