My photographer friend returned to Phire practice on Friday, which inspired us to get back on the aerial silks and do lots of acroyoga. He has posted lots of his photos from that evening here and here.

Here is one from a new trick we are learning (you can tell, we actually have a spotter):


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I just found a friend's blog post from our Medeltidsdagarna på Hägnan this summer, which included this cute photo from when E. and I were teaching others the acroyoga poses that we do:


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Last spring, when we were discussing whether or not Frostheim would host the Medieval Days at Hägnan this summer, I agreed to be on the organization team, on the condition that we also have some sort of Newcomer's event within a couple of months after the event, and Norrskensfest both on the calender before Hägnan, so that we would have places to ( Read more... )

E. and I did a short acroyoga performance at the fireshow at our Medeltidsdagarna på Hägnan event this weekend. It turns out that there is a film of our performance, so if you want to see what it is that I have been doing for my latest hobby, go check it out. Acroyoga is so much fun!

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This weekend was the Jungfru Marie Bebådelsedagsgille SCA event in Reengarda, which was much fun. This year was the first in a new site, which is a bit bigger than the one they have been using since I moved to Sweden, which was a good thing, since the event drew more people than it usually does (we had the Prince and Princess present, so no ( Read more... )

Monday: A walk in the morning, followed by taking the train home from Narvik (seven hours). The first half of the trip I had a delightful conversation with a Scottish woman on her way to Kiruna. Got home just before 18:00 and spent several hours shoveling the snow that had accumulated while we were out of town (lord_kjar was in Göteborg helping C. pack up ( Read more... )

This morning started with meeting a friend at the gym to do the "day one" workout my physical trainer has given me--complete with pushups and lots of shoulder exercises. Then, in the early afternoon, I got a message from another friend asking if I would like to meet her at the gym to do some aerial silks training this evening. Of course I would! ( Read more... )

Of course, I should have gone to bed before 01:00 last night, but I didn't. So instead of getting up at 05:30 to start my morning exercises I slept till quarter till seven. I still did my before-getting-up situps, and then went to the living room and did the pushups and squats section of what would have been yesterday's phone app workout, but ( Read more... )

Last night was another Phire practice session. Since we are at the school gym on Fridays we can bring the aerial silks and hang them from the trapeze set. At first I couldn't manage to climb at all. Never mind that last time I tried this, in mid-December, I managed to climb all the way to the top, this time I couldn't get off the ground at all the ( Read more... )