Getting Your Medieval Fayre Share

Today we headed into Maidstone as we'd seen in our local paper, the Kent Messenger, that a Medieval Fayre was taking place in the town's Brenchley Gardens. 
The gardens are a municipally provided oasis of calm in contrast to the nearby bustling adjacent shopping streets but, especially after dark, they are very sadly more synonymous with crime - particularly drug taking and dealing, anti-social behaviour and weapon carrying - so it was a joy to see so many families out enjoying themselves on a lovely Spring day, as surely was one of the gardens' original intended purposes.
The fayre was host to to a plethora or re-enactors bringing traditional crafts and skills to life with talks and demonstrations including spinning, woodworking and calligraphy with live medieval music and dance alongside accompanying stallholders selling themed clothing, jewellery and carved wooden items.
It all had a certain ramshackleness to it but we both loved it and it was a great opportunity to get our event based photographic juices flowing again.
I was particularly enamoured by the listed programme of events which gave precise timings for certain Middle Aged activities to be achieved : Knight and Princess Training 40 minutes, period appropriate dance and music 30 minutes with Crime and Punishment and Everyday Life in Medieval Times coming in at 20 minutes apiece! 
My main image worked better in mono and to me it almost felt like the present day onlookers had stepped into a time machine and then suddenly found themselves in a medieval monochromatic milieu. 
My first extra is of a group of singers called "A Companye of Strangers" who wanted to capture themselves by the demonstrably medieval means of a smartphone, with my last image being of two maidens seemingly engaged in an earnest manuscript based discussion as the children in the background danced to the music on the gardens' Victorian bandstand - with suitable medical assistance available should there be any epoch spanning mishaps!
So we ended up being more than happy to get our very own share of medieval fayre, :-)