patgund | The way kids minds work....

So, last week, Little Bit and I are at Ursulmas. She had a few SCA friends to run around and play with, and I did my first stint as a Chirurgeon here.

Two things stuck in my head though.

The first was watching the bit playing with some older kids from the local page school. 12 and up and holding her own too. At one point I looked, and she was holding a foam sword high while one of the older kids knelt. And then she brought it down....

.....on one shoulder.....

.....then the other shoulder......

.....and then the top of the head.....

And I'm somewhere between laugh and mortification as she then does this to another kid. And then another......

....and then I notice His Majesty of An Tir watching. And he's laughing as the bit hands the sword to another kid who then dubs her!

Then there's this conversation with Little Bit. Now I'm wearing a Chirurgeon's baldric, which has, as part of it's device, a period medical instrument called a "fleem" on it which bears a certain resemblance to an upside-down number "2".

And she decides I'm therefore "The new Number 2", (yeah, she's still on a "Prisoner" kick)

I just raise an eyebrow and say "If you say so, Number 7".

She mock-snarls at me and goes "I am not a number, I am a free girl!"

I fall back laughing.

I love the way her mind works at times. Okay, it scares me too........