One of the unexpected advantages of living next to the Royal Armouries is the seemingly never-ending stream of people dressing up under one's window. Today it is the wild west. This is one of the more successful efforts recently. I think this may be for two linked reasons. Firstly, there are quite a large number of them and secondly they are all dressed differently. It seems to me that there is a clear correlation between how much re-enactors enjoy things and how individual their costumes are. The most joyous of the events outside my apartment has been without doubt the comic book convention and the most depressing were the sad ranks of the Star Wars stormtroopers who, except for Lord Vader himself, all looked identical. Of course the alternative reason could be that this bunch get to make lots of noise firing off a variety of guns as they pretend to shoot each other. The 'shoot-out' put on by the Lonestar Old West Re-enactment group which ended with everyone except the undertaker being dead (or were they?) was certainly entertaining and loud enough. Judging from the dialogue which preceded the mutual massacre those taking part were right to choose re-enactment over amateur dramatics as a way to spend their time, but I suppose it's a least possible that the frontier was entirely populated by Geordies.
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| The gunfight at the Clarence Dock Corral |
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I would have liked to see the Gatling gun fired though.
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