Retribution, Invocation and Temple

[squirmelia]

On January 19th, a sports hall in a leisure centre slowly filled up with people, some wearing pink or black to show support for their team. Most of the crowd would have looked out of place at your regular sports match, but this was New Year's Retribution, featuring the London Rollergirls.

Two teams of rollergirls in pink and black sat on the opposite side of the room to where I was sitting, while my housemate "Refzilla" and the other referees stuck to the middle.

Then the match started, and surges of pink and black flashed past as the Rollergirls zoomed around the ring and crashed into each other and then suddenly it would be over and would start again. Mostly I failed to be able to tell what was going on, but mondoagogo was paying attention more than I was: London Rollergirls: New Year's Retribution.
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Due to having gone to Invocation on Saturday night, I woke up far too late on Sunday to be able to catch much of the Temple Festival, but I did catch a few glimpses of effigies of knights and grotesques in the Temple Church (built by the Knights Templar), as well as of the Molyneux globes and bookcases full of purple books in the Middle Temple Library, and a variety of armour. I think I should have got up earlier. Photos on Flickr: Temple Festival.

Comments

[kiwi-dan.livejournal.com]

The London Rollergirls event looked fun!

[doseybat.livejournal.com]

You have all this motivation to get out of the house/pub and See Stuffs. Could I borrow some of yours?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have been ill for a week, so haven't been able to do anything. :(

[bickichick.livejournal.com]

right on you do so much cool stuff

Next time I come back to London- I would have more time to see you and London properly I;d like to go do stuff like that see Knights Templar

[fulnic.livejournal.com]

Wow, rollergirls look hot. Do you have any idea what it was all about? Is it like Rollerball, except with hot chicks and no motorbikes?

roller derby!

[(Anonymous)]

full contact quad skating sport. check out our website for the rules: www.londonrollergirls.com