( Hunting the wild bear's garlic )

So I meant to post an entry about Magdeburg weeks ago and never did. (It's been a whole month, for Eru's sake). The reason mostly being, out of fairness to the people involved, I should write it in German. Somehow I can't arse myself to do that (don't ask, I do not know how my brain works), so I thought I'd do it tomorrow, and tomorrow, and ( Read more... )

Normally Jörg and I shun all those Dance-into-Mayday/ Walpurgis Night/ Beltane (because Walpurgis apparently isn't hip enough for modern German pagans, we need to steal the British name!) events because they are rarely nice traditional dancing things but rather just another excuse to get violently drunk and, after that, drunkenly violent. ( Read more... )

Most Fascinating Object of the weekend:

Sushi in gold leaf.
Sushi. In gold leaf.

Truth is stranger than fiction, guys; truth is stranger than fiction.

So I went to the autumnal hunting LARP in Balduinstein ( Read more... )

Es ist wieder einmal Zeit für die Werbetrommel!

Angesprochen fühlen sollen sich bitte alle, die irgendwie was mit Fantasy anfangen können und eine Reise zum Schloss Satzvey (das is in der Nähe von Köln) machen könnten.

Dort finden nämlich am 7. und 8. Juni die Fantasy Days statt. Soweit ich das verstehe, ist das mehr oder weniger eine Mischung ( Read more... )

That won't happen in April, they said.

HAH!

However, this castle had a) a fireplace in the great hall and b) properly insulated dorm huts. Thus the weather was, on the whole, quite bearable.

The GMs were a lot better this time, too; there was an actual plot that worked well. As Canard (one of the GMs) said, it was basically not that complicated ( Read more... )

Yes, I got back from the Renaissance Dancing weekend yesterday, but I was too tired to write much afterwards. Actually I still am, so I'll make it short. And afterwards, there'll be the March kitten/Easter/chaos/dancing picspam ( Read more... )

So, I'm off for the choir weekend. Be good; don't do anything I'd want to take part in! See you on Sunday or Monday!

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ( Read more... )