Month: July 2010

Events, Food3 Comments

RUM 2010

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RUM was held less than an hour away this year, so I got to go. The Royal University of Meridies is the annual big teaching event for the kingdom of Meridies, and it also hosts meetings for many of the kingdom's service groups, resulting in the usual problem of too many places to be at one time, and difficult decisions for someone like me, who has her hand in too many Yahoo! lists. So I chose according to Most Pressing Responsibility, which was first that I'm the new chatelaine of Glynn Rhe, and there was a series of How To … Continue reading RUM 2010

Clothing and Equipment, Food1 Comment

Cooking pots for fifty! Or eighty! Haven’t decided…

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NEW BIG HAIRY LEARNING CURVE ALERT!  I've volunteered to be feastcrat/head cook for Glynn Rhe's combined A&S/fighting event, Convivium Collegialis/Wine List, held next February. As faithful readers of this blog will guess, I've had a Big Idea about how to organize my effort planning. Imagine that you come into the event, and somebody has a camp kitchen set up, with several dishes cooking.  You can stand around and take perhaps a couple of hour-long classes (on the tools and the recipes) and get copies of the recipes that are being cooked.  At the end of the day, everybody sits down … Continue reading Cooking pots for fifty! Or eighty! Haven’t decided…

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A bit of blog housekeeping

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Apparently relying on TypePad to forward blog comments to my email is a mistake. I apologize to all those commenters whom I haven't replied to…I try to respond to every comment, because I'd like GMA to be more than a brag sheet. On the flip side, GMA seems to have attracted enough traffic to make comment spam worthwhile in somebody's estimation, so I'll be adding the "check TypePad comments more often than every blue moon" to my todo lists. ———- Also, I've added a Google search box, which is supposed to search just this site when Google's crawlers get around … Continue reading A bit of blog housekeeping