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I think I'd refrain from wearing the woad... might get odd looks when waiting for you guys.

So a celt *without* woad wouldn't get odd looks?

Well, y'see... I can wear a coat over the rest of the costume...

Presumably not. A *pict* without woad would, mind you.

Obviously.



B

Actually, strike that... wearing a coat over a wool/fur costume in May/June would kill me.

O' course, I could take the requisite items with me and put the woad on when we *get* there...

*plots*

*worries*

*reassures*

*worries even more*

And to reiterate slightly: this is such a BAD idea...

Mmmm. Wicked!

And there I was thinking it was a plan..

Well, it could be...

I still find it mightily appealing. Particularly the idea of going in more or less random fancy dress. I mean... Avebury.... Stonehenge... if you can't do that there, where else can you?

Ben

Exactly

And wasn't it me two weeks ago who said 'I don't do fancy dress..'

Err... A nice genteel tea room? Dressed as Withnail and I?

..

*forgets the exactly wording of the quote I was laughing at..*

Think of it as a social experiment. This is England.

Do you think that we could deanpan it enough that no-one actually asked us why we were doing it?

If they do then we can say that we are random strangers who met on the Internet and are showing a well brought up librarian from the Mid-West around the Sacred Tea-Rooms of the UK.

B

"We are multi millionaires!"

"We are visitors from the future and have researched our costumes carefully"