illuminating

Perhaps 4 champagnes is not the best way to appreciate the Medieval Illumination Exhibition, but they were free and they fitted with my Festival way of life.

I had thought about attending in my Investiture garb, but maybe its best that I didn't.  It rained all the way home and I was obviously under the weather.

It"s a bit of a public couple of days - look out for an article in The Age in the next week, with some of the fabbo pictures from sacred_chao

I think I was a bit undiplomatic this morning.  I made a comment in another journal that anyone who complained about  the noise produced by an unhappy child in the (slightly) cramped conditions at Festival should go and have their fun elsewhere.  I guess it's a bit of a trigger for me.  I understand that the parents were probably dying of shame and desperate to quieten their child, complaining just makes their guilt and discomfort worse, and doesn't help anyone.  Also, if it were teenagers or drunks in the tavern having a good time for an hour, I suspect the complaint wouldn't prompt someone to say that the camp arrangement was untenable, just that those individuals were a bit selfish, but you expect that sort of thing at Festival.  Oh well.

I had a good time at Festival.  It was quiet, but not disconcertingly so like it was last Festival.  I felt like I knew what was going on with my Barony and that I didn't need to interfere or worry.

Ive started work on a list of easy things to make campsites period, and I think I'd most like to see it in the Rowany Festival Handbook.  I think that's where I learnt most of it 20 years ago anyway.  Take a look here and tell me what you think.  It's going to have links to photos and instructions for seating options, and also cooking/recipe links when I and the rest of Abbotsford can be bothered organising them.

Enough burbling, time to fall over and start work on my hangover.