Newcommer's was a fun event!
Mar. 8th, 2009 03:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaBut then, it always is!
This morning I made an attempt at doing some uni work--determined that even though my advisor successfully ran this sample over a year ago, today if I use the same data file he used and run it through the program the calculations crash--giving an error message complaining about a negative square root. Sigh. So instead I did my 1000 words a day and then packed stuff to take to the event. The hall opened for set up at 14:00, and we arrived at 14:30. We helped get things set up,and then spent some time playing in the kitchen. There wasn't enough of the pastry for the pies to do covered pies, but there was enough to do decorative bits. They happened to have a cat cookie cutter on site, so we cut out a bunch of cats and then added manes, tufts at the end of the tail, pepper corn noses, rosemary whiskers, and parsley flakes in the eyes. They were so cute! It took three of us as much time to make eight of these as it did some other people to chop the veg and cook the meat/sauce to fill the pies.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clovis_t got some photos, so as soon as he gets a chance to upload them to his Facebook I'll post a link to them. By the time we did that and I washed up some of the cooking dishes which had been used thus far it was closing in on 18:00, which is when the event started, so I went and got changed. The event itslef was much fun. We'd brought my hammer dulcimer and our bodhran, and a very talented musician who recently moved to Launceston was down, bring his shawm, a lute, a harp, and several other instruments. He was joined by a local recorder player, and the two of them plus one or another person doing drum provided us music for dancing all night long. It was great! The food looked to be very well received, and the kitchen was so well organized and enough cleaning happened as they went that the kitchen clean up was just about done by the time of closing court, making it fairly quick work for things to be packed up. Their excellencies announced their Majesties choice for their heirs, L & M, who will be invested as the fifth Baron and Baroness of Ynys Fawr in May. Bookings to my apprentice if you wish to attend (she's listed in the Baronial directory, or ask me if you need her contact details).
We went to the after-revel as well, and enjoyed further socializing there before heading home around 02:00. I was in such a good mood after a fun day that I managed to get the car unloaded tonight, and played my hammer dulcimer a bit (till the dogs, who'd been woken up by it complained) and then thought I'd check in here before sleep. It is now 04:00, so I'd probably best get some rest. I won't be attending the tournament tomorrow (much tough I'd love to), but instead hope to get lots of uni work done.
This morning I made an attempt at doing some uni work--determined that even though my advisor successfully ran this sample over a year ago, today if I use the same data file he used and run it through the program the calculations crash--giving an error message complaining about a negative square root. Sigh. So instead I did my 1000 words a day and then packed stuff to take to the event. The hall opened for set up at 14:00, and we arrived at 14:30. We helped get things set up,and then spent some time playing in the kitchen. There wasn't enough of the pastry for the pies to do covered pies, but there was enough to do decorative bits. They happened to have a cat cookie cutter on site, so we cut out a bunch of cats and then added manes, tufts at the end of the tail, pepper corn noses, rosemary whiskers, and parsley flakes in the eyes. They were so cute! It took three of us as much time to make eight of these as it did some other people to chop the veg and cook the meat/sauce to fill the pies.
clovis_t got some photos, so as soon as he gets a chance to upload them to his Facebook I'll post a link to them. By the time we did that and I washed up some of the cooking dishes which had been used thus far it was closing in on 18:00, which is when the event started, so I went and got changed. The event itslef was much fun. We'd brought my hammer dulcimer and our bodhran, and a very talented musician who recently moved to Launceston was down, bring his shawm, a lute, a harp, and several other instruments. He was joined by a local recorder player, and the two of them plus one or another person doing drum provided us music for dancing all night long. It was great! The food looked to be very well received, and the kitchen was so well organized and enough cleaning happened as they went that the kitchen clean up was just about done by the time of closing court, making it fairly quick work for things to be packed up. Their excellencies announced their Majesties choice for their heirs, L & M, who will be invested as the fifth Baron and Baroness of Ynys Fawr in May. Bookings to my apprentice if you wish to attend (she's listed in the Baronial directory, or ask me if you need her contact details). We went to the after-revel as well, and enjoyed further socializing there before heading home around 02:00. I was in such a good mood after a fun day that I managed to get the car unloaded tonight, and played my hammer dulcimer a bit (till the dogs, who'd been woken up by it complained) and then thought I'd check in here before sleep. It is now 04:00, so I'd probably best get some rest. I won't be attending the tournament tomorrow (much tough I'd love to), but instead hope to get lots of uni work done.
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Date: 2009-03-10 08:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-10 09:27 am (UTC)You'd be welcome to come visit and play with mine, particularly if you can help me learn how to play--I've never played an instrument before, and while I'm confidant I can learn on my own, given enough time, working it out with someone who knows how to play other instruments would probably make it go faster.
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Date: 2009-03-10 11:39 am (UTC)I am fascinated by unusual instruments! I really want a lap dulcimer (such as Joni Mitchell has on some of her songs) but I am equally intrigued by all instruments I have not seen or played before.
I play a little bit of guitar and have plenty of aural & music theory knowledge, so I could possibly help you out in learning it a bit :) I'm not sure if you know who I am, but Suz may have mentioned me - my name is Bec, and I went to school with her. I'm in the second year of my Bachelor of Music in contemporary voice at the moment :)
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Date: 2009-03-10 11:54 am (UTC)