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Greetings from Genevieve, Thamesreach rapier marshal,

I'm writing to thank the many contributors who helped make the Thamesreach rapier revel one of the best yet.

Particular thanks to Master Alexandre, Dom Duarte goncalves and Lord Nicholas, the out of town marshals, for their time and expertise to help make this year's ( Read more... )

Pictures of the shiny:

Sorry for the fuzzies - limit of taking pictures one-handed.

View of the coverage of my thumb, and flexibility: I'm making a fist.


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Hint: not the vacuum cleaner.

Arrived today, weeks before Double Wars. Hurrah!


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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... )

All shire fencing kit sent to Yule Ball by the Blessed Folks Who Own Vehicles (BFWOV ( Read more... )

Thamesreach's most recent revel was last weekend, the first to follow WorldCon where SCA had a display table.

exmoor_cat followed up the contacts made at WorldCon, and as a result, we had 6 (SIX!!) newcomers to the SCA at the revel, plus one new arrival from An Tir ( Read more... )

I spent Valentine's day at work, then hustled home to go to fencing practice for the first time since September, to get poked all over - both my opponent and I are hopelessly out of shape and practice.

Romantic? not terribly. But I was really, really pleased to be back at practice. I came away happy to be poking and being poked, for the first ( Read more... )

Saturday court had been long - combining principality and kingdom business - and making up for past courts where scrolls could not be distributed in the rain. Our evening was still ahead, with our light supper and dancing; the musicians had gathered in our encampment and practiced over the afternoon. I never tire of listening to musicians warm up, ( Read more... )

Saturday proved a catchup day - to catch up on the activities that the rain on Thurs and Fri had cancelled.

Started the day with a meeting of the Academy of defense (my first!); this meeting managed to agree on some changes to the governing docs of the academy to make it easier to run, and also to agree on when to run the *10* challenges into the ( Read more... )

Happily Robert has started a new job this week, with an actual office to go to - short commute by bike to Clerkenwell. This is a relief both financially, and getting out of the startup he'd been contracting for. Just listening to Robert talking to the startup boss made me realise that some grown men, even accomplished ones, cannot hear good advice ( Read more... )