Bought this at the British Museum at the weekend. I took William and his friend Alex up for the 'After Dark Ages' Sleepover. They tried some archaeology, listened to Saxon stories (mostly Beowulf), learnt a few phrases of Old English and Norse and made some Saxon jewelry. I think they enjoyed it, although it went on until midnight so poor William was falling asleep during the last activity. The kids are all getting a bit old for this sort of thing now though, William is just on the cusp of finding it a bit sad and thinking it fun to heckle the performers. Ah well, kids grow up. Fred had his fist lessons today at Woking College, and there was a panic this morning as he couldn't printout the homework he had been given. Valuable lesson there though - never trust the reliability of a printer and never leave it to the last minute. The book was very readable, and examined all aspects of 'Goth' from the ancient tribe through medieval architecture and the romantic movement to horror stories and the mergence of the music Goths in the '80s. V enjoyable, and fascinating that one word covers so many meanings, many of which appear to be contradictory. what unites them all? I dunno - kicking against authority/the settled state of things maybe?
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