I spent a happy morning sketching at the Wimborne History Festival. There were interspersed displays all around the town but I couldn’t tear myself away from Willow Walk where the reenactment troops were camped. I had a long conversation with a midshipman, watched musket drill and chatted to a man who had been in a huge reenactment of the battle of Waterloo on the field in Brussels. This is the 2nd Battalion Coldstream guards.being put through their paces

