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Fri evening: Good Barbarian party. Not as many as had said they would turn up (not exactly a rare thing in Canberra), but an interesting mix of medievalists, astronomers and linguists. Some very interesting costumes, which I may put photos up for later. Z's barbarian game worked well. Picts (?), Huns (K), Libyans (C), Goths (P), and Parthians (me) swept in and beat up on the Romans (Z) and the decline and fall of the Roman empire was accomplished with much battles and bribery. The setup involved a map of Dark Age Europe and surrounds, lots of 1:72 scale Dark age figurines, dice (for deciding who drowned or not), and M&Ms (for bribery and corpse compensation). Battles were decided via full on scissors, paper, stone, often to the death or a large enough Danegeld/bribe. Wound down around 1:30am, with the last people crashing around 3am. Was fun:)

Today, went and saw Arcadia on stage. Was very good, and if you get the chance, I thoroughly reccommend it. Very cool Regency era costumes. Definite advantage in following things, having seen the play before, although that was about 8 years ago.

Pictures of Shirt sewing progress can be seen here. As can be seen, there is still a fair amount to go. But managing to stick to pure linen fabric, white linen and black silk thread.

I should stop waffling and get ready to head off to Film Club: Underworld: Evolution. Should be good and brainless. Yay vampires, werewolves and corsetry. Fluff fluff fluff:)