Pia, I must confess you have truly captured my imagination by casually throwing into the mix that your partner is a 'sword expert', as if that was a perfectly mundane thing to do with one's life, as in "my partner is a builder/plumber/businesman/politician/sword expert"
! I have been trying to fathom out how exactly one winds up a sword expert, please do elaborate as I'm intrigued!
*Sigh* don't get me started on this! Oops, too late!
I have a theory that in every "civilised" society there comes a point where the lawmakers have run out of things to do and instead make up silly things to keep themselves occupied. I mean let's face it, once you've got down the "thou shallt not steal", "no murder" and no "coveting of the neighbour's ass", you've pretty much covered the basics! There must come a point where are the rules necessary to govern a society are in place and only need to be updated as time passes for new technology, etc? But we seldom unmake laws...
We're quite into 'banning' stuff in the UK these days, rather than actually doing anything significant about the problems. National health service in crisis? Ban smoking! Terrorists trying to blow up stuff? Ban liquids! Ban bags! (ok, not quite but nearly!) Government not living up to its election promises? Ban fox hunting! Kids being arrested for beating to death pensioners? Why, ban sword dancing - of course!
I wish I'd bought a prettier sword but don't suppose I'd have got to use it anyway
Bring on the 49 cm swords, I'm ready!
If it doesn't have a curve blade is that ok? Because if it's not curved, you can't hurt anyone, right...?
Sorry, really long day, being cranky! Going to tuck myself up in bed!