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[ursula]

My Laurel elevation will be Saturday afternoon at June Faire. Right now, royal court is scheduled for 4:30 PM. Following aelfgyfu's example (twice is a tradition, right?) the 'vigil' will be in the early afternoon. It will involve fifteenth-century snacks, some hemming, and the wisdom of peers. Carousal will follow court.

Please let me know if you can make it, if you want to camp with us, if you need a ride, and if you'd be willing to bring food and drink.

Comments

[pandorasbox.livejournal.com]

omg I would love to come, but that is the only day my Maid of Honour can come down and go dress shopping. I would have loved to see you get elevated Tre' sad

[freewaydiva.livejournal.com]

I won't be there, alas. But you should definitely give some thought to your answer to the All Important Beltsander Question.

Early congratulations!

[chemicallace]

I wish I could make it! Early congrats from me as well!

BTW, I'm E-mailing the person who I gave the final drafts of the French stuff to see if I can get a copy. If not, I'll send the most recent versions of snacky bits along to you, but I definitely have 15th century stuff to pass along.

[ayeshadream.livejournal.com]

Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help. :)

[ursula]

Want to bring some food? :) The general theme is fifteenth-century France & Burgundy, with specific inspiration from the typical "last" course of a banquet, which seems good for a spread of snacks (hippocras, wafers, nuts & candied nuts, fruit). If you want to cook, different sorts of tarts would be good, fresh cheese . . .

One particular idea I had was this: the Menagier mentions "large roasted Provence figs with laurel leaves [bay leaves] on them". Figs are out of season, but some of last fall's pears & apples are still around, so if you have access to a bay plant, chunks of pear or apple roasted with bay leaves & maybe a sprinkling of sugar would be awesome.

[ayeshadream.livejournal.com]

ooooh, how would you feel about fresh roasted apples with some large dried figs (the really flavorful ones) with the bay leaves? I'll have see if I can get my hands on some fresh bay leaves.

I'm going to try to do some candied nuts and fruits anyway for another June Fair project (one of the bardic groups is doing an Elizabethan play and wanted appropriate theatre food)so I can just make a double batch.

[ursula]

Yay, sounds great!

[ya-inga.livejournal.com]

I SO wish I could be there honey!

I hope you have a splendid and amazing day : )

HUGS

[gwacie.livejournal.com]

*sniffle* All growed up and bein' a peer of the realm and all! Man, I wish I could be there.

I love vigils... they're so much fun :) You get to philosophize to a captive audience! heh. ;)

[belmanoir.livejournal.com]

so...i'm definitely coming and i have saturday off (and i requested sunday too, i should know if i got it in a few days).

so what time should i show up? when are y'all heading out there and when are you heading back? if the times don't mesh i'll just drive---can you email me directions? (in which case i'd be happy to give someone else a ride too.) assuming i get sunday off, i will be camping with y'all.

i can bring food and drink but nothing too time-consuming. would some fruit, nuts, and dried fruit be okay? are there any unobvious fruits/nuts that are period-inappropriate? (when i say obviously inappropriate i'm thinking tropical guys like mangoes or bananas or macadamias or something)

also...should i dress any particular way? obviously i don't have anything even remotely authentic but would a skirt be preferable or what?

[ursula]

We're probably leaving late Fri. evening and returning Sunday afternoon. Site directions are here:

http://www.dragonslaire.org/Events/junefaire.htm#directions

If you have a long skirt and/or dark pants I can lend you stuff to wear over it. If you want to come by sometime this week, we could go through my wardrobe & you could pick stuff to borrow-- I have lots of garb these days, in varying levels of authenticity.

Will you need to borrow camping gear (tent, sleeping bag)?

We haven't completely sorted food plans for the weekend yet-- that will probably get discussed on the household mailing list:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/housegreyhaven/

[belmanoir.livejournal.com]

...i'm looking at these directions. do i want to take the ferry or the highway? i think i'm going to drive myself--what time should i be there on saturday?

and yes, i will need to borrow camping gear.

for borrowing---tomorrow evening or thursday afternoon/evening should work for me. i also hve wednesday off but afternoon/evening plans...if you'll be around in the morning i could do that.

::joins mailing list::

[ursula]

OK, I will mentally reserve you tent space . . .

[belmanoir.livejournal.com]

i do actually have a sleeping bag, i realized. just no tent.