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    Thanks for the pics Alex. Looks like you had a great time.
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    Regretably Alex, our excesses on the Friday night in Dumfries rendered us unsafe to drive on Saturday so we didn't make it over to Hawick. I'm sorry now that I missed it.

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    For those who are wondering...this is rather like what we call "Renaissance Fair" over here in the USA...except that this Festival actually takes place where the real events happened, I don't see any faeries, belly dancers, or pirates and so on. People are actually dressed in clothing that is pretty true to the times. Well done!

    Looks like a lot of fun.

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    Very nice, Alex! I'll take one of those cromags!

    Cheers,
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    It must have been a great day out according to the pics, really exciting looking. Maybe next year I'll come down.

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    Love the pictures Alex, especially the donkey watching the carrots being chopped.
    Alan, most of the pictures posted here of Renn faires in the US are in hot places like TEXAS, thus the belly dancer costumes appear....I doubt the UK has gotten warmer or has it?
    Humor, is chaos; remembered in tranquillity- James Thurber

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    guessing the reivers were some sort of raider that was driven out? I am not familiar with this lore....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brock63 View Post
    guessing the reivers were some sort of raider that was driven out? I am not familiar with this lore....
    The short answer via Wikipedia:

    Border Reivers were raiders along the Anglo–Scottish border from the late 13th century to the beginning of the 17th century. Their ranks consisted of both Scottish and English families, and they raided the entire border country without regard to their victims' nationality. Their heyday was perhaps in the last hundred years of their existence, during the time of the Stuart Kings in Scotland and the Tudor Dynasty in England.
    For a slightly longer answer, I'd highly recommend picking up a copy of George Macdonald Fraser's "The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers". Riveting stuff!

    Oh, and...

    Alex, many thanks for sharing the pix! Looks like a grand time!
    Last edited by Tim Little; 26th March 12 at 06:09 PM.

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    grand piccies Alex! slainte!!

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    Alex: Thank you so much. I enjoyed all the pictures. Next best thing to being there. I like the pipers in their toorie-less blue bonnets the best.

    Also, if the historical reivers looked like a lot of those you photographed on draft horses, if might have taken some of the sting out of being attacked. "OK, ladies, this is the way to my house."

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