jousting

Verbal jousting on British and Irish Lions tours is as much a part of the deal as the rugby itself - and the mind games started anew in recent days.

I groaned to see a giant fork and spoon mounted on the kitchen wall of one of Marvin’s for-sale properties, then smiled when the silverware got ripped down and repurposed as jousting weapons.

I had the delight to be brought in to kind of decorate, to play around — to almost tease her up into the jousting arena.

That deal will probably get done after some more jousting.

Add in the site’s location and historical evidence of a nearby jousting arena, and “the evidence really points to them being jousting horses,” Creighton says.