TL,DR: good event, missed some friends, fencing fencing fencing.

10 days of near perfect sunny hot weather. In Wales. The 4 horsemen and their mate Ronnie Soak must be saddling up. There were a couple of very windy days, making Lynette's nusbacher tent billow like unto a sail before the wind, and proving the value of storm guys, especially when your ( Read more... )

The ceremony to welcome Lord Aodh O Siadhall gothwalk into the greater house Sylveaston went very well, with advice from nusbacher on some important details. This rounded out the ceremony in a way that I really appreciated and I would not have known of, without her help ( Read more... )

I've trailed off keeping LJ up to date - the insidious effect of other social media, and Having Life (tm), and being more busy at work.

However, Raglan, as always, merits a post or three.

Good stuffCamping for 10 days with my sweetie and friends: this alone is worth celebrating ( Read more... )

Clearly I won't get to a day by day diary of the event. Better to start with highlights ( Read more... )

Very Very short version ( Read more... )

...still posting bits and pieces from the summer.

This Raglan included glass painting with acrylic paints, and I asked everyone to send me pics, because I wasn't much good at getting them, at the time.

Here are some of the results:

Viscountess Suzannah - her glass in front of her Sun and Chalice scroll

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Robert took on a greater share of fire-care and cooking this year, which meant less fighting and time on the field. He's still nursing his post-surgery hand, so is being very careful with how much it does ( Read more... )

What was the same:

Beautiful site, with run of the castle after hours.
People enjoying camping, doing medieval stuff together, letting the kids run, and playing nicely.

What was different:
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...and it feels wonderful to be clean again, really clean ( Read more... )

Archery

One super aspect for me at Raglan was coaching shooting with two young archers, nusbacher's eldest A. and Floris and Hannah's eldest E. 
Both were attentive and careful, and seemed to really enjoy the shooting even with rain. A persisted in shooting even in a downpour that soaked her through, and her efforts were rewarded - she had a group of 4 arrows ( Read more... )