Though, to be fair, this one was rather special, being advertised as a "music bootcamp". Firday night the first singing workshop started fairly promptly after I was on site, borrowed sheets onto my bed and into costume. The singing continued till just before I went to bed around 01:30 or 02:00. We sang SCA songs, period songs, traditional Finnish ( Read more... )

You might recall that last weekend I came down with a cold, which I managed to cook out of the system on Monday. I felt much better for a couple of days, but then I either got a new one or the first had some tricks left. This time the expression is coughing ick out of my lungs combined with muscle aches ( Read more... )

( This got long (no surprise there), so: Friday summary )

Ok, so I have book the food for Friday dinner and breakfast Saturday and Sunday. I have packed my costumes and other things I need (save for bedding, because I want to sleep under that tonight) and printed my documentation, the menu, the check-in list, and labels for the two jars of svartvinbärssylt I am giving in thanks for help on the cloak. I ( Read more... )

Thursday: Attend the normal SCA/Frostheim gathering at the university campus at 18:00. Leave there and drive to K & H's house just south of Umeå (a nearly 4 hour drive, so we will be getting there kind of late ( Read more... )

This weekend was one of my favourite events in Norra Nordmark. Höstdansen (Autumn Dance) is an annual event held in the shire of Uma (Umeå), about three hours south of Frostheim (Luleå), and the same north of Gyllengran (Sundsvall). As a result it tends to draw folk from both directions, and there were between 40 and 50 of us on site, ranging from ( Read more... )

Ok, so I am rounding by 1.5 years years yet, but the photo taken of me at the event this weekend doesn't look to my eyes that I am really as old as the calendar claims I am:


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One of my friends posted photos from last weekend's event on her blog. The writing is in Swedish, but there are lots of photos (mom--page down to the bottom--I am in some of the middle photos, and the one on the very bottom, too).

And I have a photo of the spoon I carved on site.

Last week was Umasmedeltidsdagar, an SCA camping event which ran from Sunday evening through Thursday morning. Since it was happening during the week lord_kjar couldn't attend, since his summer vacation starts this week (his company splits the summer in half such that half of the employees can take their holidays during the first half of the summer, the ( Read more... )