Dixit Corvus numquam postea
There was something of a gathering last night. Thankyou to phreekedelic, trjhobo and shoesrule for being there and helping out :D I'm now a lot futher on with fundraising for my expedition :D
Since trjhobo brought a bow with him, and I have two bows and a crossbow, we had something of a band of merry men today, and much fun was had with cries of 'ready!', 'aim!' and 'fire!', 'Fire at will!' and 'Sorry Will!' (also 'Caspar, get out of the way!')
In front of the target was positioned a decoy crow (made of plastic- i.e. not real) that I'd found in the garden. It took a bit of a battering (as did the target itself- several arrows were passing clean through it, taking some of the straw with them), and after one particular round of firing, it looked something like this:
(once again, allow me to clarify how non-real this was)
After this, some of us went off to LRGS (our old school) to collect our A level certificates, and had an easter-egg hunt in the library, and hung around with Mrs. D, the librarian. We then wandered around the school like returning heroes for a while and commented on how much everything had changed, and how the place must be falling apart without us.
All in all, a good day.