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abendgules) wrote2015-08-14 08:03 pm
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Raglan ffair AS 50
I've trailed off keeping LJ up to date - the insidious effect of other social media, and Having Life (tm), and being more busy at work.
However, Raglan, as always, merits a post or three.
Good stuff
Camping for 10 days with my sweetie and friends: this alone is worth celebrating.
This year we travelled once more with the Vitus-wagon, which is turning into the Vitus wagon-train, really, with multiple vehicles.
I've never seen the trailer so full, so that 2 grown men are braced against it as it's re-opened on site. However, the goodwill on site for unloading and schlepping was excellent, and our stuff was sorted and unloaded in very short order.
We had the luxury of setting up in broad daylight, rather than dusk, and looked at each other somewhat bemused when we had the entire tent, mini-kitchen (courtesy jpgsawyer and edith_hedingham) and seating arranged, and still had time before dinner.
The Pologrinus encampment took much longer, and their site suffered more in extremely high winds over the week.
Due to enforcement of 4" tent stake rules, many pavilions were not fit to stay up in the high winds especially on the bowling green. We adjusted our centre pole, but once more the pavalino design came through for us and while it creaked and shifted, our tent stayed put.
The 4" rule is hard to enforce in the face of high winds; if you use 'medieval' stakes, then they are fat and tend to be short, and thus pull out easily, and you cause more damage pounding them back in in a new hole. If you use 'modern' steel stakes, they are skinny and go deeper, but actually do less damage to the ground (which is what you want to avoid on historic sites). A week after we've left, you'll be hard pressed to see where the steel stakes went in.
For the first half of the week we dined 'lightly' (meaning typically 2 dishes per meal) but well together with Mrs Katherne of Lochac and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nusbacher, and made a merry gathering.
We managed one bowl of syllabub, which was the usual spectacle and was as delicious as ever.
For the second half of the week Master Paul,jpgsawyer and edith_hedingham plus aryanhwy and J and G rolled up and our meals doubled to tripled in dishes, ambition and splendour. Here's their menu. The chickens planned for Sunday went off, so were replaced w/ omelettes and refried smoked meats and amazing liver pate, made by edith_hedingham.
Wednesday evening
pre-cook pottage & a stew for the evening
Thursday
Breakfast - standard fare!
Dinner - Lamb roast
Home made sausages!
Salad
Pottage (hopefully with home grown broadbeans)
Fruit patties or similar desert
Supper - cold meats, breads and cheese
We will be 9.5 people!
Friday
Breakfast - standard
Dinner - ember day
fried fish
pottage
Salad
Veggie dish or 2
tart on ember day
green omlette
norwegian pasties
wafers
custard / fruit
We will hopefully be welcome Master Alexandre & his lady
Supper - cold meats, breads and cheese
Saturday
Breakfast - standard
Dinner - a Grand feast!
Roast Beef
Great Pie
Pottage
frumetry
Grand sallat
Cheese Gnoochi
Commandores
Omelette
Berry fool
wafers
Strawberries
We will be welcome the Prince and Princess, the Prince's lady, Mary and Rick and Lady Moria
15 people
Supper - cold beef!
Sunday
Breakfast - standard
Dinner -
Omelette
Refried smoked meat
Salad
Pottage
Carrots
Wafers?
Supper - cold meats
The sausages were a splendid success; or as I called them, 'Innuendoes with Edith'. It was hard to handle or even watch the sausage-stuffing process without dscending to medieval levels of humour.
jpgsawyer's innovation this year was a portable shelter based on a model by Scappi (late Italian cook, I think) that helped keep the rain and sun off the cooks' backs while working, and made working around the firebox more comfortable. It also stood up in light-to-moderate winds well, but dodged the serious winds early in the week.
Thamesreach on tour
The shire's presence was sizeable this year, with both new attendees and old friends. Thamesreach folk were much in evidence in running Raglan, tourneying, challenging, teaching and generally having a splendid time.
zmiya_san was hip-deep in the Raglan organisation this year, along w/ her mum lady Tamara. She even managed to squeeze in authorising to fence in the week, which is pretty impressive.
The Thamesreach forces triumphed in the Oxford Roll - the regular shire-vs-shire tournament that is a feature of Raglan.
Individuals held their own in the protectors tourney and in the torchlight pas d'armes, and Pan Vitus was once more named protector, after a 45 minute bearpit tourney.
Lord Guy de Dinan and Pan Vitus succeeded in their challenges into the Drachenwald academy of defense, as free scholar and provost respectively. Milady Cicely survived her first storming of the castle and pitched in on the prefect challenges, so when someone asks 'who died and made you provost?' she can say, 'I did!'.
My sweetie served as the prince's champion, fighting a destructive bye in the coronet tourney, when the prince himself had to withdraw. He lost just 1 bout in the process, thus being very destructive indeed.
This week, as we all collectively recover, the happy noises and pictures coming from assorted Thamesreach members shows that the event was as full and fulfilling as in past years, which I love to hear.
However, Raglan, as always, merits a post or three.
Good stuff
Camping for 10 days with my sweetie and friends: this alone is worth celebrating.
This year we travelled once more with the Vitus-wagon, which is turning into the Vitus wagon-train, really, with multiple vehicles.
I've never seen the trailer so full, so that 2 grown men are braced against it as it's re-opened on site. However, the goodwill on site for unloading and schlepping was excellent, and our stuff was sorted and unloaded in very short order.
We had the luxury of setting up in broad daylight, rather than dusk, and looked at each other somewhat bemused when we had the entire tent, mini-kitchen (courtesy jpgsawyer and edith_hedingham) and seating arranged, and still had time before dinner.
The Pologrinus encampment took much longer, and their site suffered more in extremely high winds over the week.
Due to enforcement of 4" tent stake rules, many pavilions were not fit to stay up in the high winds especially on the bowling green. We adjusted our centre pole, but once more the pavalino design came through for us and while it creaked and shifted, our tent stayed put.
The 4" rule is hard to enforce in the face of high winds; if you use 'medieval' stakes, then they are fat and tend to be short, and thus pull out easily, and you cause more damage pounding them back in in a new hole. If you use 'modern' steel stakes, they are skinny and go deeper, but actually do less damage to the ground (which is what you want to avoid on historic sites). A week after we've left, you'll be hard pressed to see where the steel stakes went in.
For the first half of the week we dined 'lightly' (meaning typically 2 dishes per meal) but well together with Mrs Katherne of Lochac and
nusbacher, and made a merry gathering.We managed one bowl of syllabub, which was the usual spectacle and was as delicious as ever.
For the second half of the week Master Paul,
jpgsawyer and edith_hedingham plus aryanhwy and J and G rolled up and our meals doubled to tripled in dishes, ambition and splendour. Here's their menu. The chickens planned for Sunday went off, so were replaced w/ omelettes and refried smoked meats and amazing liver pate, made by edith_hedingham.Wednesday evening
pre-cook pottage & a stew for the evening
Thursday
Breakfast - standard fare!
Dinner - Lamb roast
Home made sausages!
Salad
Pottage (hopefully with home grown broadbeans)
Fruit patties or similar desert
Supper - cold meats, breads and cheese
We will be 9.5 people!
Friday
Breakfast - standard
Dinner - ember day
fried fish
pottage
Salad
Veggie dish or 2
tart on ember day
green omlette
norwegian pasties
wafers
custard / fruit
We will hopefully be welcome Master Alexandre & his lady
Supper - cold meats, breads and cheese
Saturday
Breakfast - standard
Dinner - a Grand feast!
Roast Beef
Great Pie
Pottage
frumetry
Grand sallat
Cheese Gnoochi
Commandores
Omelette
Berry fool
wafers
Strawberries
We will be welcome the Prince and Princess, the Prince's lady, Mary and Rick and Lady Moria
15 people
Supper - cold beef!
Sunday
Breakfast - standard
Dinner -
Omelette
Refried smoked meat
Salad
Pottage
Carrots
Wafers?
Supper - cold meats
The sausages were a splendid success; or as I called them, 'Innuendoes with Edith'. It was hard to handle or even watch the sausage-stuffing process without dscending to medieval levels of humour.
jpgsawyer's innovation this year was a portable shelter based on a model by Scappi (late Italian cook, I think) that helped keep the rain and sun off the cooks' backs while working, and made working around the firebox more comfortable. It also stood up in light-to-moderate winds well, but dodged the serious winds early in the week.
Thamesreach on tour
The shire's presence was sizeable this year, with both new attendees and old friends. Thamesreach folk were much in evidence in running Raglan, tourneying, challenging, teaching and generally having a splendid time.
zmiya_san was hip-deep in the Raglan organisation this year, along w/ her mum lady Tamara. She even managed to squeeze in authorising to fence in the week, which is pretty impressive.The Thamesreach forces triumphed in the Oxford Roll - the regular shire-vs-shire tournament that is a feature of Raglan.
Individuals held their own in the protectors tourney and in the torchlight pas d'armes, and Pan Vitus was once more named protector, after a 45 minute bearpit tourney.
Lord Guy de Dinan and Pan Vitus succeeded in their challenges into the Drachenwald academy of defense, as free scholar and provost respectively. Milady Cicely survived her first storming of the castle and pitched in on the prefect challenges, so when someone asks 'who died and made you provost?' she can say, 'I did!'.
My sweetie served as the prince's champion, fighting a destructive bye in the coronet tourney, when the prince himself had to withdraw. He lost just 1 bout in the process, thus being very destructive indeed.
This week, as we all collectively recover, the happy noises and pictures coming from assorted Thamesreach members shows that the event was as full and fulfilling as in past years, which I love to hear.
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