[Sca-cooks] Report from England

[Generys ferch Ednuyed]

Oooh!!! Please say the pictures will be webbed... pretty please?

Geneyrs
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Gunter" <countgunthar at hotmail.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 4:05 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Report from England


| Well, I've gotten several reports from Selene
| as she tours London. Unfortunately she has
| a cold, bleeding feet and the world's smallest
| hotel room.
|
| But she has spent considerable time at the Victoria
| & Albert museum as well as several other spots of
| interest. I'm afraid I would have either killed her
| or wandered off in search of entertainment after
| a while. Y'see, she spends this time cooing over
| fabric.
|
| She also scored a major coup in the Museum of
| London. She managed to sweet-talk a curator, who
| cleared it with Sir "Soandso" to take photographs
| of the Medieval and Tudor collections. She thinks
| they were shocked that an American, even worse an
| American from Arizona, would be able to discuss the
| Cheapside Horde collection.
|
| She plans on spending a couple of hours in the
| Hampton Court kitchens taking a bunch of photographs
| for me. Woot!
|
| Here's an interesting observation she had (with permission)
|
| "The more I see of period stuff, the more surprised I am at
| how much the SCA actually gets right.  Something that's
| really surprised me is how gawdy some of the Elizabethan
| jewelry and fabrics really are.  I have to confess I've
| sneered at some people's costuming attempts in the past as
| being too garish and modern looking only to discover almost
| identical examples of real stuff.  Some of the shot silks are really
| modern looking and a lot of the Elizabethan jewelry looks like it
| could have been raided from my grandma's costume jewelry collection."
|
| It's neat when we get to see the reality over the fantasy
| we build up about our period. I remember I used to believe
| that Medieval knights wore armor all the time.
|
| She's having a good time although she's a bit mopey, sick, lonely
| and homesick.
|
| British television is very...interesting.
|
| Yers,
|
| Gunthar
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