2/95th Rifles Forum

Sylvene · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:13 pm Post subject: Hi Ladies!

(and gents)

'tis getting a wee bit boring here and I haven't said "Hi" in a while. I've been working my little hiney off the months of September & October - I think I managed to pack in 4 trips in 3 weeks at one point (San Francisco, Denver, Oklahoma, San Francisco) - and my article on the top women in MMORPGs has been well received & a few internet sites picked up and publicized the magazine's news. *quiet squeal*

As the year winds down, what do you re-enactors do over there? Retreat into your basements, sew & do research and make new little re-enactors? Over here, the "universities" ramp up. In November, I'm signed up for a Culinary Symposium, a hands-on class on cooking from primary sources and a Weaving Workshop. I drooled mightily over the Inter-Kingdom Intensive Embroidery Symposium in Northern California but could not swing the trip - apart from the fact that my eye-doctor made me make the choice between my eye-sight and embroidery quite a few years back...

Oh... and I'm going to a Steampunk Convention this weekend. Many piccies forthcoming. Lecture tonight on 19th century weapons!

Bluejay · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:38 pm Post subject:

I wish I could come with you to all those events. There's nothing nice like that where I am.

However, tomorrow I'm going to a medieval fair in one of our castles. Will post pics of that.

Sylvene · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:56 pm Post subject:

But there are no castles in America!

100 years is a long time and 100 miles is a short distance around here!

Bluejay · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 5:59 pm Post subject:

The castle I'm going to visit is about 13th century I think.

http://www.slotloevestein.nl/documents/home.xml?lang=en

Bluejay · Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:58 pm Post subject:

As promised I posted some pictures on my Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php...mp;id=1686448165&l=06f7b7f70c

ben · Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:13 pm Post subject:

They all ate mud in the Middle Ages you know. All that stuff that looks like food is actually different sorts of mud imported from Phoenicia and Carthage by the Romans. They stockpiled it and it was lost during the Dark Ages then re-discovered. Mud-eaters the lot of them.
Dave H will back me up, he used to do muddyevil.
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Sylvene · Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:32 pm Post subject:

ROFL. Okay. I will change my album to "public viewing" and will upload more piccies soon.

Here you go: http://www.facebook.com/album.php...mp;id=1026425527&l=5b7ce158a8

Added more photos and edited link to public addy

Sylvene · Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:59 pm Post subject:

Hey Penny, the SS Great Britain... it's in dry dock in Bristol isn't it? Hehe. Imagine having a Steampunk convention on it...

ben · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:16 pm Post subject:

The SS Gurt Britain would be awesome for a steampunk do, I can't imagine anywhere better (The Crystal Palace?). We are attending a re-enactor's party there in January and sleeping on the highly haunted boat among the mannekins, oo-er. It is a great museum, and they have done an excellent job on the reconstructions, they also employ lots of historical interpreters, which is nice.
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Dave H · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:22 pm Post subject:

Sylvene · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:03 pm Post subject:

Hmm... then you'd never be interested in the Viking Feast I'm going to in December. No pictures for you then! Very Happy