It's been a quiet few days here, Mike's under the weather and it's not easy to make beads while you're coughing.  We've spent some time online doing more research on sword beads and a few other things, and he's been reading 'The Viking World' for more inspiration.

Unfortunately, we won't be at Middlewich for the Roman Festival, we're really disappointed but there's not much point in going somewhere to do a demo when you can't talk.