[Sca-cooks] I quit

[Kirrily Robert]

I have a funny story about accommodating disabled people at events,
which I hope will entertain and not offend.

Just recently, I attended an event full of classes in our Barony.  A
friend came up to me and said "There's a newcomer who'd like to attend
your Elizabethan cookery class, but she's blind. I just wanted to let
you know in advance so you could make any allowances you need to."

So there wasn't much I had to do to make allowances for this person...
just described things that I had pictures of, and gave her a URL where
she could get the information on the handouts using her blind-friendly
web browser.  But after the class, she asked if she could "see" what I
was wearing, since she was interested in all the different costumes at
the event.

So I went over to her, and she started to run her hands over my costume.
Since I was spending most of the day in the kitchen either teaching or
organising the partial-potluck feast, I was wearing a Flemish
market-girl outfit.  She felt the layers of skirts, the lacing up the
front of the bodice, and then you should have seen the look of surprise
on her face when she reached a little higher and said "Oh! It's rather
low-cut, isn't it!?!"  (It was a standard 16th century square necked
smock and kirtle, but I had no partlet on.)

Now, I don't know how much more accommodating I could have been to this
disabled lady than to let her, uh, "see" my costume in all its glory.
Don't tell me that wasn't beyond the call of duty :P

Yours,

Katherine


--
Lady Katherine Rowberd (mka Kirrily "Skud" Robert)
katherine at infotrope.net  http://infotrope.net/sca/
Caldrithig, Skraeling Althing, Ealdormere
"The rose is red, the leaves are grene, God save Elizabeth our Queene"