Shire of Klakavirki

The day has been quite relaxing. I've had time to try out my marudai, start a small woven tapestry and support people making fabric armour of various types. We've had an excellent feast with rather a lot of home-made wine and some quite stunning mead (I'm not generally a fan of mead but even I had a second goblet of this one) and have spent a good couple of hours chatting in the hot pot. The rest of the wine is being drunk even as I type, and I suspect that some gentles are going to have rather heavy hangovers in the morning. :)

As I suspected, there were hangovers this morning. :)

Fortunately I wasn't one of the people suffering from one. Nevertheless, I didn't surface until about 09:00. I think that next time we use this place we're going to have to organise the sleeping arrangements so that the early risers sleep downstairs and the 'freddled gruntbugglies' (as we laughingly described the snoring still-sleepers) can sleep upstairs. That way the larks can get on with coffee, breakfast and A&S stuff without worrying about waking the others. It wasn't a big problem, just something that we can do better next time.

All the same, we managed to get some more gambeson-building done before we started the big clean-up. As usual, we left the place in a cleaner condition than we found it, but I know that's often the case for SCA events.

The gambesons are now all cut out and ready to quilt. I had hoped that we'd get at least a couple of them quilted as well, but things never quite go as quickly as I plan. I really must learn to allow more time to take varying expertise levels into account. It's going to take another weekend to get these things completed - perhaps that should be the aim of our next pot luck day... or three or four A&S meetings.

A few photos...

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Updated on October 30th, 2008 by

Shire of Klakavirki

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