by gorging on the archive for 2 days.

Today's favourite, for all kinds of reasons.

More positively now I'm totally culturally prepared for Double Wars. :-)

...to Scandinavia and the world, a webcomic I've read about but not actually read in person til today.

Here's today's favourite for language buffs.

It's excellent preparation for going to Double Wars.

Hey gothwalk: I think we've just found a great solution for the 'how do we convey nuances of meaning on social media' question... just refer them to SatW.

Working against the clock, I didn't have time to take pictures - but aryanhwy did a lovely job. It looks even better in her pictures than I remembered it when I made it.

This writ was to mark HE aryanhwy's winning the kingdom arts and sciences competition. She is thus the kingdom artisan for the coming year. It's not really an award from the Crown because they ( Read more... )

I've written up most of my entries about 20 year - still have to cover Sunday and our trip back. I've backdated them in chrono order.

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

I start my day with the record shortest Curia meeting ever at 9am - I think I was the only member of the populace attending. goncalves was delighted to preside over an 8 minute meeting. :-) I wandered out in shock, wondering what to do with the rest of my morning, other than second breakfast...and going back to bed ( Read more... )

Another very full day ( Read more... )

This was the one day I got some fencing in, so I was up early hoping and praying that it would start on time ( Read more... )

One of our most painless journeys for an event: travel to Frankfurt via London City airport, the small 'business' airport in the east end, just 20 mins cab ride from our flat. No trekking via Tube to Heathrow, no 2 hr lead time before even reaching the airport. Bliss ( Read more... )

Thamesreach is a shire rich in heralds - and now, it's even rich in titled heralds.

With this month's LoAR, three titles were registered, for myself, my lord Robert, and nusbacher:

• Rouge Maunche
• Caversham 
• Sans Merci Herault

respectively. These titles were bestowed on us all by Vitus and Eleanora, our current king and queen's predecessors.

I think we nicely ( Read more... )

Some brief notes about kingdom University, before I forget them entirely.

I love visiting Nordmark; I love the delight in making things that I find there. The caliber of craftsmanship, and craftswomanship, is very high, and the resulting clothing and textile accessories are just beautiful.

Maybe it's a cultural thing, that Swedes simply like making ( Read more... )