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she is so inspiring
Yesterday evening my friend Kaarina asked me to have a look at her documentation for her 12th Night A&S competition entry. Reading her poem and her write-up on the style she used for it inspired me to also want to enter one of my songs or poems. A reply to my quick note to Kingdom A&S confirmed that I wouldn't need to be present to enter, and it ( Read more... ) -
a little adventure
Today we went out to the Jul Marknad på Hägnan (Christmas market at Hägnan). It was a lovely day for it, crisp, clear, and -15 C. We have had some snow recently (not much, but enough to turn things white) and the couple of warm (+ 2 C) days we had last week didn't melt much of the snow, and with the drop in temps the trees are nice and white, so ( Read more... ) -
Nu mörknar det
It has been a very long time since I posted a "learn Swedish one song at a time" post. I thought I had long since shared the one our choir wrote a couple of years ago, but when I went looking just now it turns out that I never had. This one is a filk to a classic Swedish spring song, "Nu Grönskar det", which I have posted about". Our version, of ( Read more... ) -
it shouldn't be that difficult
Edited to add: it turns out that if I had created an account with the publisher there would have been a button to push to send the book direct to my kindle app. So, if I hadn't been too lazy to fill in the form, it wouldn't have been that difficult. Read several chapters last night. Worth the frustrations trying to get it.
I just tried to buy hrj's ( Read more... ) -
there, now really done with the event for the year
I finally had the time today to sit down and take care of the financial paperwork for Norrskensfesten. We had 100 people registered, of whom 75 were SCA members. The numbers have been sent in to the Shire Exchequer and Seneschal, and I will likely get a refund for the cash I fronted soon ( Read more... ) -
Norrskensfesten
This past weekend was Norrskensfesten, Frostheim's annual big event, and it was the second annual Norrskensbard competition. I was the autocrat again this year, and again used the format inspired by the Mists Bardic Competition event, with an all day feast interspersed with bardic competition rounds and other entertainment ( Read more... ) -
no time, so posting anyway
I have been quite busy with getting ready for Norrkskensfesten this weekend, getting a new computer at work (which always takes a week or two to get the new one looking right and able to run all the needed programs), helping some of the new members make their first costumes, and even making time for some good conversations about relationships with ( Read more... ) -
keeping busy
We have had enough snow that I am finally willing to call it "winter", and so very grateful I am, after a couple of years of no snow till late November or early December. However, I watch the forecast and see that it is supposed to go back up above freezing, and I worry if it will be another of those winters where the temps oscillate back and ( Read more... ) -
Winter is still only flirting with us here in the north
Some time back one of you (I think it was hrj) shared some of the signs of fall in her area, and asked what were the signs of fall where the rest of us are. I didn't reply, as it happened to be on a day I didn't have time, but when she asked we had already lost most of our leaves, and some nights were dipping below freezing, and then warming back up ( Read more... ) -
A longer trip than planned
It is lightly snowing in Helsinki today, so I allowed more time than typically needed to get to the airport. Despite traffic slowing to a full stop at one point on the highway, still made it to my gate with more than an hour to spare. However, the plane itself wasn't so fortunate ( Read more... )