Too bad you didn't get to try the tarts. A local cook I know always makes a couple "extra" of things like that for her helpers to sample on prep-day.
You said you're not interested in food at that hour - does that mean you don't generally eat in the evening? I also noticed you call the meal a "banquet". Folks in Ealdormere used the word "feast" pretty ubiquitously; a habit that's been annoying me of late since I think "feast" has fairly specific denotations and connotations beyond simply meaning "evening meal". Do you ever attend SCA "feasts"?
The story about the stairway singing made me smile. Years ago, my siblings were attending a CIY conference and discovered that the stairwell had excellent acoustics. Afterwards a certain song with four-part harmony was forever known to us as "The Stairwell Song."
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Date: 2010-11-29 01:56 pm (UTC)You said you're not interested in food at that hour - does that mean you don't generally eat in the evening? I also noticed you call the meal a "banquet". Folks in Ealdormere used the word "feast" pretty ubiquitously; a habit that's been annoying me of late since I think "feast" has fairly specific denotations and connotations beyond simply meaning "evening meal". Do you ever attend SCA "feasts"?
The story about the stairway singing made me smile. Years ago, my siblings were attending a CIY conference and discovered that the stairwell had excellent acoustics. Afterwards a certain song with four-part harmony was forever known to us as "The Stairwell Song."