Progress?

Well, achieved something this evening through finishing the oilskin hood - ready for sale. And did get the timber for the big Viking A-frame.
But as for working on things, there was a nap between 4 and 8pm on my part and a good book on Z's and hence little progress there. And then there were tent piecing issues leading to much swearing on my part and no progress there. And some dishes were done but that was about it.
And of course having had the nap, not tired now.
Buggery. Not going well so far.

Better progress

So, today was a bit of an improvement.
Morning - one side of the Viking bed jigsawed out, people mucking around with tent poles. Tried sewing machine again with better luck, so now have two main triangles for one end - should be able to make more progress tomorrow. Lunch, more wax tablets, such that there are now 8 pairs of big tablets and 6 pair (and one spare) of little tablets carved out. Pictures here and here. Next will be sanding and finishing - pairs of holes in the sides for lacing pairs together on the large ones. May make small leather pouches for the thin ones ala the wax tablets from York*. Not managing quite as thin and fine as those though.

And for other very nice wax tablet links check out the ones here.

Other progress for the day was on cutting out the other Viking bed frame bits for slotting together - only bits left now are the legs (unfortunately the more complicated bit) and the holes for wedging.

And there was a pretty doco on TV about the sun. The warm fuzzies were a bit annoying but they had some really nice satelite movies from SOHO in the far UV and X-ray - great detail of everything from solar granulation to sunspots and coronal mass ejections. I may have spoiled it for Z by being that annoying person who says it is due to blargh (in this case magneto-hydrodynamics) and has the presenter catch up up a sentense or two later (or 5 min later when they are being mysterious and attempting to build things up).

And Ruapehu managed to lahar away nice and safely - some nice piccies off here on the NZ Herald site (not certain how long they will stick around for).

* Though while looking for those, found the York Archeological trust Online Picture Gallery. Very pretty pictures but not certain how to link directly to particular artifact images. They also appear to have a lot on various of their excavations in some bastard only work with IE and need Adobe SVG viewer... Would be nice to find out about:

Anglo-Scandinavian and Roman remains at
28 - 29 High Ousegate, York, UK
Principal Authors: Neil Macnab and Jane McComish

The site at 28-29 High Ousegate, York, was the subject of an archaeological watching brief and excavation in the summer of 2002. The excavation took place in the site of a new lift shaft in the basement of the building, which is currently Waterstones book store. The excavated area measured just 2.6m by 3m and was investigated to a depth of 1.9m below the existing floor level.

The excavation uncovered evidence of deposits of Roman to Anglo-Scandinavian date; all later deposits had been removed by the insertion of the present cellar. The Anglo-Scandinavian deposits were of particular interest and included a number of pits, dumped deposits, wattle fences and a stake- and post-built structure, in addition to an exceptional collection of artefacts, well preserved in the highly organic deposits. These artefacts provide evidence for craft industries on the site including leather working, textile production, antler working and horn working.