The seasons move on;
A new year brings new learning.
For sharing of knowledge,
The gekkeikan is offered
To one we hold most esteemed.

I'm sorry I can't be with you for your elevation - the best I can offer is this: my first attempt at a tanka.

After too much sewing and cursing (Tailoring is NOT the same as Dressmaking), Marian and I both have clothes for the Kentwell Hall Dickensian Christmas ( Read more... )

I have received my "explanation" booklet from the Electoral Agency. The trouble is it didn't tell me anything other than what the two systems of voting ARE. What I need to know is the pros and cons of the two systems ( Read more... )

After many months of ill health (no one major thing, just one after another), I am finally starting to feel interested in life again. I was horrified to realise that I don't have a single project to offer up for this quarter's Arts and Sciences report - that will have to be over-compensated for over the next quarter ( Read more... )

Having been home over a week its time to commit my ramblings on EasterCon to the ether ( Here )

I don't mean that it got ME lost. I mean the device itself. It set out from the manufacturers on the 22nd of January and took a wrong turn at Burgess Hill or thereabouts ( Read more... )

An extract from a book by a 16th century Englishman who seems to have spent his life traveling and being rude about the people and places he saw ( Read more... )

For those who didn't get to see it at Raglan or the Shire revel, here is my Japanese clothing (apologies for not getting everything straight - it was a very rushed photo):


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Here are a few detail pics of the individual parts for those who are interested:( Click here )

A fan shaped buckler for use with my Japanese armor (the holes are for the strapping); the prize for the bear-pit tournament for heavy combatants at Raglan; and a mug for Duarte that I did at the local pottery painting centre.


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