It’s that time of year again! The calendar has crawled past the 31st of December and we all wake up full of resolution to face bravely into a new year. So let’s raise a glass, or even a sword, to all that 2012 has to offer. And don’t worry about the end of the...
… or so they tell me. Not that I can say I have really noticed. For various reasons, I have only been to training a handful of times in the last two months and I haven’t been to a single competition. Nor is that likely to improve in the short term; right now I’m...
I have added some new links to the side bar. We have two new weapon specific Irish fencing blogs:- Splitting Time describes itself as “The first review of Ireland’s Sabre season” and provides the most up to date and in depth reportage on, well, sabre fencing competitions that feature Irish Sabreurs. Counter Time is...
“Falling Man” © Copyright Simon Palmer and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. I don’t know what got into me tonight but I fell twice in a course of a five point bout. As Wilde said, once may be an accident, but twice is carelessness. I’m still not sure how it happened, ...
I was away on holidays for a couple of weeks, attending amongst other things a performance of the entire of Wagner’s Ring Cycle – more on that in another post. I dropped into the club on Tuesday when I returned thinking it was the last night of fencing to discover that our summer league...