We went to Eltham Palace on Sunday, to the Medieval Fair. We saw genteel dancing,

basic cooking,

the old contrasted with the new,

fair ladies with owls, (though if we really had been Tudors we would have run away screaming apparently as the owl is a creature of the night and is a bad omen when seen in the daytime)

Peregrine falcons,

and King Henry himself on the jousting field.