Genevieve's Journeys

Thamesreach is a shire rich in heralds - and now, it's even rich in titled heralds.

With this month's LoAR, three titles were registered, for myself, my lord Robert, and nusbacher:

• Rouge Maunche
• Caversham 
• Sans Merci Herault

respectively. These titles were bestowed on us all by Vitus and Eleanora, our current king and queen's predecessors.

I think we nicely illustrate the popular historic heraldic title options: charge, locative (Caversham is a village adjascent to Reading, where we lived for about 18 months) and motto. :-)

On top of that exmoor_cat's arms have passed, as have armillary's, and the name of the new shire in Bulgaria is now registered as College of St John of Rila, which I think is delightful.

I look forward to seeing these registered arms added to the shire bunting!

 buttongirl  was asking about my Luttrell class - it's basically a guided walk through the Luttrell facsimile that my sweetie got me a few years ago.

I only know of one other person in the SCA who owns a copy, so scribes and 14th c mavins are regular attendees to see the next-best-thing to seeing it in person.

I still haven't done the thorough, page-by-page study and read-through I promised myself when I got it, but I have done classes on it. The easiest one is an overview; the making-of, the dominant themes in the artwork, the well-known artwork (agricultural scenes) compared to the mostly-unknown artwork.

I also have a class about (surprise!) the heraldry in the Luttrell Psalter. 

Not all notes are created equal, in part because not all speakers are the same, and not all topics are as easy to cover. But we had an awesome mix of theoretical and conjectural, against physical, measureable and quantifiable examples, which made for a very well-rounded day, topped off with drinks with the MoL textiles curator. How cool is that? ( Cut for length )

Ok, it's just propaganda for Adobe, but it's rather charming.
Give it time to load - it's worth the wait.

Got a 'hard-drive warning crash imminent' msg on Friday evening.

Thank small gods for geek friends like HG Alaric, who cheerfully squeezed in home visits to our sick laptop, on top of work, and gearing up for this weekend's feast cooking.

So Robert and I are now both recovering our bits and bobs, reinstalling things we usedtahave. I'm mourning the loss of my bookmarks, but honestly, it's like clutter - if you haven't used it in two years, you probably won't - and the site has probably moved/changed anyway.

Happily, I use Yahoo mail, so nothing lost there - just loss of access.

It was very very quiet in the house on the weekend! No Intawebs, no downloads, no radio listen agains... eerie silence!