Festival summary...
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stellar_muddleBeen back from Festival for a day, and having started on the laundry and seen various people starting to post re Festival, and remembered that I should probably update at home rather than at work (which I head back to tommorrow)...
Weds (Ok, not Easter but about from where we left off last time)
Z welded doors for furnace, I attached (some) door ties. Out to site in the afternoon - rocks (?), more people on site, tent up. Back to Canberra (via KFD) and the airport to collect Sanchia and Stefano (NB remember Virgin doesn't arrive at the Qantas end). Home for chatting then sleep.
Thurs
Got everyone and everything packed in the car and out to site in one trip - incl beer packed around people's feet. Even out by ~11am. Rock shifting and mud packing by Z (with help at various times from Inigo, Alys, Stefano and others) while I sewed eyelets for tent doors (some slight issues with door closure and overlap). Lots of people arrived at various times. Dinner and wandering and meeting/catching up with people in the Tavern. Earli-ish night.
Fri
Started with a very good talk by Rowen on period embroidery tools. Want a bunch of things now - bone/antler needle case, needles, brass pins, adjustable embroidery frame, and have the materials at home too:). Talk on Practical Dye techniques - cool colours and home spun silks. Zane finished chuffer and oven stuff. Lunch. Did something in the afternoon - suspect sewed patch on eastern tent door to stop the draft chilling the small of Z's back. Dinner. Dancing:). Talking in the wine bar til late with various people:) ~2am?
Sat
Market Day. Viking shears, Festival T-shirts, silly pilgrim/fertility pewter badge for Z:), basic drop spindle kit and instructions. Looked for various things but they just weren't there. Drooled over book collections - Manfred's book emporium had some glorious stuff to drool over. Hot, dusty, but not as dusty as last year. Cool stuff at the Laurel Prize Tourney. Is it bad to drool more over someone's documentation than reconstruction? The undertunic was cool, but I really want her reference collection - Hagg(?) and Gejlis (?) - must find Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Europe as apparently is in ANU library, and Ancient Danish Textiles from Bog Bodies and Burials. Z made more rope. Hand sewing talk was more basic initially but got good with individual people, including a veiled "Mistress Alain" who went and played with the Laurel meeting next door. Dinner (including Z oven baked pizza and scones:), Bardic circle (some very good and some "interesting"), whiskey tasting with Del, various Abbotsford folk and others. Can now put a number more faces to LJ names/identities. 1 or 2 am ? bed. Lots of standing around in the lee of the chuffer/oven chimney, talking to people and warming up. This probably goes for a number of nights. Warm mud chinking which was too hot to touch but great through a woolen cloak/layers.
Sun
Hmmm, this one kind of vanished, at least during the day... Watched war scenarious for a little while. Slight nap from after lunch to before dinner. Dinner, tent tidying then off to wine bar (with visit to Yurt first) for talking and singing. Some very good catches/rounds. Then cause people weren't tired, back to our tent for talking and warming hands over charcoal brazier. Bed about 4:30am...
Mon
We would have picked the really late night to be before the 9am start for A&S classes. Stefano's norse cooking one was good, then the Woman's Viking clothing one by Elspeth. Lunch and last trawling of market but no purchases. Drop spindle spinning class, Anglo-Saxon embroidery talk. Nap again before dinner. Z finished the Viking bed and st it up:) Nice bed. Dinner . Z and I got given St Florians service awards (Bouchet) for rock movement and placement around the campsite. Alcohol clearance and lots of visitors and talking:). Eventual wandering down to the tavern via Abbotsford around 2am. Bed by about 3am (2am with daylight savings ended). Nice bed - large snuggly roll together but better than straw tick on ground.
Tues
Pack up day. Garb off, packing and tidying. Z did a trip into Canberra with full junk load and Rachael in the morning, after playing with pewter casting - unfortunately too fine an arms on the buttony cross. Packed and took down tents with Thordis, Einar and Amalia with various waiting and general help in between. Z got back and with help in transporting the afore mentioned three + stuff from Patrick, we managed to get everyone back without the extra trip originally dreaded. Home with Sanchia and Stefano, via Yass KFD and McDs. Unloading of cars, arrival of 2nd travel contingent, SHOWERs (ok so there were those at camp but less preparation and dust) while people were dropped off at airport. Blobbing, turkish takeaways for dinner - VERY nice chicken, collapse and sleep ~10pm.
Weds
The aftermath. Amalia dropped at bus station. Cleaning, laundry, St Floz storage, talking, email, Einar and Thordis checking out markets and malls. Dinner prep. Typing up this lot. Z falling asleep on the sofa and now off to bed (8:30pm - he didn't nap)
Things which were cool but often I can't remember which day they were on...
Oven baked pizza and scones. Listed as Sat but may have been Fri. Fri was when was first fired up.
Siege weapon contest. Water powered cannon beat the two ballistas for rate of fire and accuracy but all were cool.
Wine bar singing.
Waldo's salami and dried meats.
Requirements for a performance laurel in Sex... (Ulf started it:)
The nice people who decided that since we had come out on all the site preps and built sumps under taps, oil bridges and constructed ovens/chuffer heaters, they would get volunteers to cover our share of the kitchens shifts.
Projects for and during next Festival
Over shoulder satchel/pilgrim scrip for carrying stuff.
Period viking sewing kit.
Shower tent drainage and sump.
Various clothing inspired by some of the cool stuff seen such as silk lined viking wool jackets (need to check references/evidence), embroidered short Anglo-saxon tunic (ditto references), cotehardie (ditto references)
Get Birka grave find references (see above).
Slats/rope setup for final version of viking (Gokstad) bed.
Bigger frame for tent (hardwood, carvings and need to cope with stretched canvas)
Smaller anglo-saxon getelds/smaller tent to fit spare frame.
Hot tub...
I think possibly another early night may be in order...
Work tommorrow... sigh...
Weds (Ok, not Easter but about from where we left off last time)
Z welded doors for furnace, I attached (some) door ties. Out to site in the afternoon - rocks (?), more people on site, tent up. Back to Canberra (via KFD) and the airport to collect Sanchia and Stefano (NB remember Virgin doesn't arrive at the Qantas end). Home for chatting then sleep.
Thurs
Got everyone and everything packed in the car and out to site in one trip - incl beer packed around people's feet. Even out by ~11am. Rock shifting and mud packing by Z (with help at various times from Inigo, Alys, Stefano and others) while I sewed eyelets for tent doors (some slight issues with door closure and overlap). Lots of people arrived at various times. Dinner and wandering and meeting/catching up with people in the Tavern. Earli-ish night.
Fri
Started with a very good talk by Rowen on period embroidery tools. Want a bunch of things now - bone/antler needle case, needles, brass pins, adjustable embroidery frame, and have the materials at home too:). Talk on Practical Dye techniques - cool colours and home spun silks. Zane finished chuffer and oven stuff. Lunch. Did something in the afternoon - suspect sewed patch on eastern tent door to stop the draft chilling the small of Z's back. Dinner. Dancing:). Talking in the wine bar til late with various people:) ~2am?
Sat
Market Day. Viking shears, Festival T-shirts, silly pilgrim/fertility pewter badge for Z:), basic drop spindle kit and instructions. Looked for various things but they just weren't there. Drooled over book collections - Manfred's book emporium had some glorious stuff to drool over. Hot, dusty, but not as dusty as last year. Cool stuff at the Laurel Prize Tourney. Is it bad to drool more over someone's documentation than reconstruction? The undertunic was cool, but I really want her reference collection - Hagg(?) and Gejlis (?) - must find Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Europe as apparently is in ANU library, and Ancient Danish Textiles from Bog Bodies and Burials. Z made more rope. Hand sewing talk was more basic initially but got good with individual people, including a veiled "Mistress Alain" who went and played with the Laurel meeting next door. Dinner (including Z oven baked pizza and scones:), Bardic circle (some very good and some "interesting"), whiskey tasting with Del, various Abbotsford folk and others. Can now put a number more faces to LJ names/identities. 1 or 2 am ? bed. Lots of standing around in the lee of the chuffer/oven chimney, talking to people and warming up. This probably goes for a number of nights. Warm mud chinking which was too hot to touch but great through a woolen cloak/layers.
Sun
Hmmm, this one kind of vanished, at least during the day... Watched war scenarious for a little while. Slight nap from after lunch to before dinner. Dinner, tent tidying then off to wine bar (with visit to Yurt first) for talking and singing. Some very good catches/rounds. Then cause people weren't tired, back to our tent for talking and warming hands over charcoal brazier. Bed about 4:30am...
Mon
We would have picked the really late night to be before the 9am start for A&S classes. Stefano's norse cooking one was good, then the Woman's Viking clothing one by Elspeth. Lunch and last trawling of market but no purchases. Drop spindle spinning class, Anglo-Saxon embroidery talk. Nap again before dinner. Z finished the Viking bed and st it up:) Nice bed. Dinner . Z and I got given St Florians service awards (Bouchet) for rock movement and placement around the campsite. Alcohol clearance and lots of visitors and talking:). Eventual wandering down to the tavern via Abbotsford around 2am. Bed by about 3am (2am with daylight savings ended). Nice bed - large snuggly roll together but better than straw tick on ground.
Tues
Pack up day. Garb off, packing and tidying. Z did a trip into Canberra with full junk load and Rachael in the morning, after playing with pewter casting - unfortunately too fine an arms on the buttony cross. Packed and took down tents with Thordis, Einar and Amalia with various waiting and general help in between. Z got back and with help in transporting the afore mentioned three + stuff from Patrick, we managed to get everyone back without the extra trip originally dreaded. Home with Sanchia and Stefano, via Yass KFD and McDs. Unloading of cars, arrival of 2nd travel contingent, SHOWERs (ok so there were those at camp but less preparation and dust) while people were dropped off at airport. Blobbing, turkish takeaways for dinner - VERY nice chicken, collapse and sleep ~10pm.
Weds
The aftermath. Amalia dropped at bus station. Cleaning, laundry, St Floz storage, talking, email, Einar and Thordis checking out markets and malls. Dinner prep. Typing up this lot. Z falling asleep on the sofa and now off to bed (8:30pm - he didn't nap)
Things which were cool but often I can't remember which day they were on...
Oven baked pizza and scones. Listed as Sat but may have been Fri. Fri was when was first fired up.
Siege weapon contest. Water powered cannon beat the two ballistas for rate of fire and accuracy but all were cool.
Wine bar singing.
Waldo's salami and dried meats.
Requirements for a performance laurel in Sex... (Ulf started it:)
The nice people who decided that since we had come out on all the site preps and built sumps under taps, oil bridges and constructed ovens/chuffer heaters, they would get volunteers to cover our share of the kitchens shifts.
Projects for and during next Festival
Over shoulder satchel/pilgrim scrip for carrying stuff.
Period viking sewing kit.
Shower tent drainage and sump.
Various clothing inspired by some of the cool stuff seen such as silk lined viking wool jackets (need to check references/evidence), embroidered short Anglo-saxon tunic (ditto references), cotehardie (ditto references)
Get Birka grave find references (see above).
Slats/rope setup for final version of viking (Gokstad) bed.
Bigger frame for tent (hardwood, carvings and need to cope with stretched canvas)
Smaller anglo-saxon getelds/smaller tent to fit spare frame.
Hot tub...
I think possibly another early night may be in order...
Work tommorrow... sigh...
