[Ansteorra] Late Night Court

[Richard Morgan]

Robert it's verry simple, we have done it before and I pefer it, do court
and feast together. More period, more fun less time.

Sir Richard ap Morgan

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Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:43 AM
Subject: [Ansteorra] Late Night Court


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>         I've been discussing the decline in good bardic circles with other
> bards for a while and someone almost always brings up the fact that Courts
> run so much later than they used to.  It seems like courts running till
11:00
> or even later are not at all unusual.  Don't get me wrong.  I love court.
> It's an important part of an event for me.  But 11:00?  I think even 10:00
is
> too late for court.  It seems to me that we have scheduled so much fun
into
> our events that we haven't left much room for spontaneous fun, a bardic
> circle, a good party or just hanging around with our friends.
>        A typical event seems to have activities scheduled until 3 or 4 in
the
> afternoon with feast starting around 7:00, or sometimes 6:00.  Feasts
often
> run 2 hours or more.  So feast starts around 7 or so and if you are lucky
> court starts by 9:30.  Again don't get me wrong, I love feasts.  They are
> often some of the best eating I get.  I rarely skip a feast.  Personally I
> would prefer to have feast over and done with in an hour, but I realize
> that's not very likely.  An hour and a half would be great.
>        What can be done?  If we could start feast promptly at 6:00 and be
> done by 7:30, start Court by 8:00 and end by 10:00 that would be a huge
> improvement.  If we must start feast later than 6:00 or if they have to
run
> for hours then do court before feast.  I've suggested this several times
> locally and the cooks hate the idea.  The response is that court will run
> long and delay the feast.  It doesn't have to.  If feast is going to be at
> 7:00 then I see no reason we can't have a 5:00 court with an absolute
ending
> time, finished or not, of no later than 6:30.  If we're not finished then
we
> can have another, shorter, court after feast.
>        I realize that things are not going to change unless a lot of
people
> want them to, but I've run across a lot of people who are not happy with
how
> late courts are running.  Are there enough of us who think this is a
problem
> to do something about it?
>
>        I mean no disrespect to those of give of their time and talents to
> prepare our feasts.  The skill of our Ansteorran cooks is amazing.
Perhaps
> it's unrealistic of me to expect that feasts should run faster.  I've
never
> prepared one and probably have no idea how much work is involved.  It
looks
> like a lot, and I have the greatest admiration for those who can do it
well.
> Also my Momma only raised one kid dumb enough to badmouth the cook and it
> wasn't me.
>
> So does anyone else think these ideas are worth looking in to?
>
> Robert Fitzmorgan
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