Maestro Bunny Fencer Chris Hunter. What is Bunny Fencing? You gear up like any other fencer but then clip two balloons to the top of the mask. Then when the lovely assistant shouts “fence” you and your opponent try to break each other balloons without getting your own broken. Last one with a balloon wins.

The lovely assistant Sybil Hunter, and quite a Bunny Fencer herself, gives me a look that clearly says she would  gladly cast me onto a steaming dung-heap if I don’t stop taking pictures of her. She would do it too!

Here's a picture of Sybil holding another guys sword. New Bunny Fencers tend to be a bit quick on the draw, if you know what I mean and holding their sword tends to keep them in check until it's time. I'm sure Sybil liked this fencer, he has big balloons.

Hickory Point Recreational Facility located on Little
Lake Harris, Tavares

Lakes Regional Park
7330 Gladiolus Dr., Fort Myers, FL 33908
Lehigh Acres

Come celebrate the Gasparilla Invasion, Gasparilla Invasion Brunch, Parade of the Pirates. Pirate Fest Street Festival.

A five-weekend event featuring: * Knights in full armor JOUSTING, SWORD FIGHTING, and performing TOURNAMENT GAMES in the tradition of the day by internationally recognized professional artists * BIRDS of PREY - in full flight by a Master Falconer * TWELVE STAGES - with continuous entertainment * Educational demonstrations - period trades and crafts * Hundreds of costumed PROFESSIONAL PERFORMERS - lending atmosphere and authenticity to the event * Over 100 ARTISANS - demonstrating, exhibiting and selling their wares * Delicacies of the Middle Ages to tempt the palate - FOOD FIT FOR A KING. Quiet Waters Park, Deerfield Beach, Florida.

The Bay Area Renaissance Festival, Tampa

e-mail: gcrenfaire@aol.com
877-429-8462

Kilts for the
working man.

“You don’t have to be Scottish to wear a kilt,” says Steven Villegas, a Seattle clothier who has pioneered a comfortable alternative to trousers in the form of pocketed knee-length garments for men. Utilikilts offers eight models, which include styles made of cotton, leather, duck cloth and lightweight nylon. There’s even a black gabardine kilt with satin stripes, designed to be worn with a tuxedo. They are available in 15 colors.

Mr. Villegas invented the utilitarian fashion in 1999 as something to wear around the house. He wanted an “unbifurcated garment” with “natural air-conditioning” that would enable him to fill his pockets or hold tools without hindering movement. Since no local tailor would make the kilt for him, Mr. Villegas bought a sewing machine and stitched a prototype himself. Weeks later, he wore it to a club, where a burly bouncer asked to buy one. Utilikilts was born.

Through word-of-mouth and a Web site, Mr. Villegas (below) sold 750 kilts that first year.

Utilikilts is on pace to sell 15,000 kilts by the end of the year. Mr. Villegas notes that many of his customers buy one kilt a year. “They buy it as a novelty, they get comfortable in it, and then they come back for more,” he said.

UTILTKILTS

• Hey, Princess, you wouldn't`t happen to know where a lonely knight could scabbard his sword, would you?
• Been there, slain that.
• Your hovel or mine?
• Pestilence makes the heart go wander.
• Pardon me, madam, but wouldst thou like to see my longsword in action?
• Every second of every hour of every day is like a thousand knives of fire stabbing me in the heart. I long for thee incessantly, so much that my sorrow seems without surcease. My alliteration is small comfort next to the warm gaze of thine azure eyes. I crave the comfort of thine embrace like some lost child cold and alone in the dark....So, you wanna !@#\$% ???
• You wanna go upstairs and see my Holy Grail?
• I like the cut of your jib.
• If I were that horse, I`d rather you mounted me without the saddle.
• Wizard: You know, my hat isn`t the only thing that`s pointed.
• Thy breastplate is wondrous! Wouldst thou hold my polearm whilst I attempt to light thy fire?
• Dost thou practice safe hex?
• Dost thou know? That chastity belt of yours would look great on my sleeping chamber floor.
• I had to swim the moat to get to you fair maiden. So, would you like to see my breaststroke?
• Wench: what`s that sound?
• Knight: that`s just the sound of my chain mail drawers expanding.
• Thou hast hit on me harder than the black plague!
• Why don`t we go back to my place and re-enact "The Miller`s Tale?"
• You won`t believe this but St. George just appeared to me in a vision and told me that I must bed you...the fate of England depends is on it!!
• Ever see a passion play? Would you like to?
• Don't believe the rumors you heard about me . . . the Bubonic plague didn`t affect the important parts.
• Like a mare, I can be ridden for hours.
• How, you ask, did I get up here to your balcony? Well, I espied you from yonder garden. In an instant my er, heart was swelled with Lust... er, love. I had to meet you! So I ran over but tripped on a stone thusly pole-vaulting into your arms.
• I've been VERY NAUGHTY. You`ll have to put me in the stocks and...er... PUNISH me, now won`t you?
• C'mon, sweetie...Didn't your mother ever tell you? A cleric a day keeps the black plague away.
• I lost my leg in battle. Guess what I`m walking on!
• Yes, fair maiden, I am indeed a wizard. Shall I make your clothes disappear?
• I'm really a prince cursed by an evil witch. Tell me, do you have sex with frogs?
• My! But you are a beautiful damsel in distress! Allow me to help you out of it.
• What a fine gown you wear, my lady. Perchance couldst I talk you out of it?
• I seem to have lost my sex slave, can I borrow you for a bit?
• You know, I was once imprisoned in a tower very much like Rapunzel. Only it wasn`t my hair that the queen asked me to let down.
• A day just wouldn`t be complete without a Knight.
• I may not be a priest, but I can get you to heaven, m`lady.
• What say ye we have our own Norman conquest, lass?
• Come up to my chamber and I`ll show you the largest treasure in the land.
• You can place your greeves under my pallet anytime.
• Hey, big boy, how would you like to help this maiden out of dis-dress?
• Wanna polish my pike?
• 'Ello, milady, thou art under siege. I shall scale thy battlements with my grappling hook!
• My Lady, dost thou possess a looking glass in thine bodice? For I may surely see myself within its folds.
• Has anyone ever told you that you have a lovely wimple?
• May I show you a fascinating Saracen ritual I learned while hiding in a harem after Hattin?
• A world without day is gloomy indeed, but a world without Knight would be pure misery.
• Milady, it`s not the size of the wand that matters, but the magic within.
• I have the key to your chastity belt and you have the key to my heart.
• May I hose down thy doublet?
• Your eyes are as dark as a castle moat by midnight. Lower your drawbridge and let me cross.
• You should be glad I`m not a Viking. You would have been ravaged and plundered by now.
• What's a nice maiden like you doing in a dungeon like this?
• You can scale my battlements any day, madam.
• You scratch my boils and I`ll scratch yours.
• They don`t call me Lance-A-Lot for nothing, you know.
• My that`s a fine set of chalices you have there.
• Ssh, I don`t want everyone to know I`m on a secret holy quest.
• When the Inquisition put me on the rack, my limbs weren`t the only thing they stretched.