Laws and calendars

[Deborah Sweet]

Lyonel wrote:

>        Section 4: Perpetual Events
><snip of description of Perpetual Events>
>Okay, so here's my question:  what purpose does this list serve?  The 
>events have a "reserved" weekend, but they are specifically NOT 
>"protected"(???). I don't want to sound sarcastic, but is this actually 
>supposed to mean anything?  Is the general understanding of this 
>arrangement clearer than the written law?  How might NOT having a 
>major, repeating event--Lyonesse, for example--on this list affect the 
>event's scheduling?

Here's my understanding of this.

1) This is one of the perks of being a Barony. The perpetual events      
   automatically appear on the kingdom calendar. You don't have to send  
   in a bid sheet with alternate dates, etc, in fact, the seneschal      
   doesn't have to *do* anything for this event to appear on the         
   calendar.

2) Any other event *MUST* have a bid sheet sent to the kingdom seneschal 
   who then decides, based on the suggested three dates, exactly where   
   on the kingdom calendar that event will appear.

3) The *only* events that are "protected" from multiple events per       
   weekend are Crown Tourney and Coronation. If the Baronial events were 
   also "protected" that would be a total of about 21 weekends gone,     
   leaving only about 7 months for *all* the rest of the events.

Hopefully this is understandable.

Estrill