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Listening
I keep listening for a voice I am never going to hear again, and am heartbroken.
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For Sale
Feel free to spread this around as widely as you wish. I'm in the process of de-cluttering, and will have a variety of items I would prefer went to their right homes rather than being tossed. Hence, I have put up a page that will list the items as they arise (stay tuned for a bunch of books)
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May Day
A little known fact is that every year before dawn on May 1st (which is this Sunday), all around the world Morris Dancers don their bells and tattercoats and gather to dance up the sun. This is a vitally important ritual, as without their selfless sacrifice the world is doomed to be lit only by the hellish radiation from an enormous (mainly) ( Read more... ) -
In My Mind.
For your listening pleasure, and my continued pursuit of sanity, AFP in an unplanned musical video for her song "In My Mind"
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14th Century kit for sale
For a variety of reasons, I am disposing of some or possibly all of my living history kit. Details and list of items for sale so far can be found at my For Sale page, which will be updated as more items are added. Currently all items there are for 14th C living history. -
Luttrell Psalter FIlm
This is outstandingly good, and worth watching to the end, for reasons I will return to and expand on in coming days (with luck)
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Cardboard boxes aren't waterproof
An important lesson I learned today while quirksilver and I were helping lordriffington - cardboard boxes are not a great thing to store stuff in ( Read more... ) -
Someone is wrong on the internet.
I really (really) hate to get drawn into the morass of "someone is wrong on the internet", but this review of Season Of The Witch was enjoyable enough, and well enough written, for a big factual error to raise hackles up and down my spine like a low-budget CG effect ( Read more... ) -
That time of year
Well, last year I gave you a particularly bizarre film clip from Mr Robert 'Bob' Dylan. This year you can have Ms Annie Lennox leading a troupe of zombie mummers through a bewildered 19th century village in a film clip apparently made by the brothers Lumière.
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That will teach them!
So last Saturday a variety of folk interested in historical swordplay got together for a yarn and some show-and-tell. Among other things Chris arranged for us to be able to do some test cutting against water-filled bottles, and Bob got some nice footage:
We were all testing various ideas, and trying to have good technique, with a variety of ( Read more... )
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