Since I've started reading news in Another Place, I post less. Sigh ( Read more... )

In more cheery news away from health and work worries:

I've just ordered these gauntlets for cut and thrust combat.

Nusbacher has a pair, and very handsome they are too ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm still rattling on about Double Wars. I was planning for it since last August, and frankly it's more pleasant than my everyday life. And I can't tell much about it to my coworkers ( Read more... )

liadethornegge  has posted her pictures, which are a boon for those who can't remember a camera. They even include me! (a rarity)

Me on the fencing list - Brighthelm tourney
http://www.flickr.com/photos/liabucket/5815550427/in/set-72157626900994840/

In the shade
http://www.flickr.com/photos/liabucket/5816119116/in/set-72157626900994840/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ ( Read more... )

Weather - warm, hot at times, rain early in the week only. Putting up tents in the rain is pesky, but taking them down in the rain is worse.

Location - pretty good, though now very full (70 pavilions?? and only a couple of dome homes). The premium on fighting space was obvious especially when fighters don't bother using the time before noon to do ( Read more... )

Forget the flatside/holy side....the mosquitoes won.

Back to work, back to the routine, still struggling to type.

This was my first Double Wars in 6 years, and the first at the 'new' site. We enjoyed a mostly hot and sunny week of fighting, fencing, food and drink, classes and saunas.

Thankfully I'd booked one extra day of flop time, to allow myself ( Read more... )

 SO: the PLN is to attend Double Wars, fitter than I am right now, as fit as I can be (without sacrificing job and sanity) and authorised on the rapier field - possibly even in cut and thrust (C&T).

I checked my calendar today, and if DW is held on its traditional dates around Ascension day, this week is 40 weeks from the start of Double Wars - liadethornegge  or ( Read more... )

In our journey, we had a lot of time to talk (or listen, as the case may be - have you ever travelled with Sir Vitus?).
( the PLN revealed )