Capt. Sterling

Doc Brown

^ The theme from F Troop < Are rogues romantic? V what part of your kit are you currently working on?

^ Since I can't do romantic I certainly don't end up silly.. < Cheekys laughing at me over the phone Thanks Red Cat V What was your favorite thing as a kid

What size?

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^ Port (everyone looks good after a few glasses) Oysters, randy first thing in the morning... ^ snow's better than ice V Romantic food, location, time of day?

^ ummmm...ahhh... romantic?? < just spent the dough, 6 yards of black wool for a pc mourning suit V do you like flowers or candy

^ castle < Oi, MY birthday money... I'm spending it on ME! Selfish pratt aren't I? V books or fabric?

Museum of London photo archive

^ A good...ahem.... < still can't decide what to spend the birthday money on...damn... V when you finally get the money you need to you then hesistate to spend it?

17th century Ivory partial denture for lower jaw

^ most expensive would be 17th Light Horse Dragoon helmets... < NO SCHOOL TOMORROW! this has been great since coming back from Chicago! V Hardest part of your kit to make?

^ Other than online guns shops?? Chinese (as for pictures ask Rats come Port Washington... his soul is already saved a hundred times over at least where picture taking is concerned) < Steaks tonight... good, bloody red meat! V Can you dance?

Careful my foot! The comments opened a huge can of worms and put unnecessary stress on the crewe, and it came from a bunch of folks that not only didn't know us but never even heard of us... Thank God for the Generals and the other ACW folks like them.

^ the eye gets them EVERY Time... < ice storm... maybe, just maybe no school tomorrow... I can order linen!! V Like having your picture taken whilst in kit or hate it no matter what?

Honestly the next one in Chicago should be great. Lots of repeat attendees and after RF2 with Pete breaking the ice betwixt all the groups from RF1, RF4 should be the absolute best. Even the vendors were getting into the whole event and really having fun with the non vendors... LOTS of new friendships were made and a lot of respect for each other as well.

I wouldn't advise backing out of PiP this year for RF3... being in Gettysburg, PA, ACW folks should come out in large numbers... if the ACW folks of the midwest were against having pirates attend RF2, I can't image the die hearts on the east will like us any better... it will be a proving ground all over again, and a bit tougher, since we had the undying support of The Generals at RF2... honestly, I do not even think I can ask my crew to make the trip especially at that time of year... I may wander up because Cheeky will be there, perhaps I can volunteer in another area... if the PB does come out for it, then perhaps the crew might come but I cannot give the order for them to do so unless Blackjohn's group is set upon it... Shame its not the Lockhouse weekend (since this ended up being only one day) then perhaps we could do both... but... playing this one by ear.

Captain laughing... ^ Rev. War white leather calvary breeches... after five years of wearing and hard riding... they started to look pretty scary < Yeah no school again... off to sew those new coats! V Ever done a full immersion event?

Truly it is the books that do it... one more page, just one more page... or really, really bad tv programs where you can't turn it off because you just have to see if it stays as bad or has some redeeming value at the end!

For what its worth... illustrations of mouring clothes from French Fashion plates from the period.

There is a link with a number of original mourning rings just trying to hunt it down in my collection.... they said something to the effect of gold with black enamel for mourning for a man and gold with white for woman and child... kind of like the sash and weepers. They had a woman's ring...trying to find it...

"London's first professional undertaker, William Boyce, opened shop in 1675. William Russell, painter and coffin maker, linked up with the College of Arms in 1689. "Funerals had become big business..." About 1/3 of the population died well under fifty. The death rate among people of all ages was higher than it had been a century earlier." Pages. 108-9 1700 Scenes from London Life. "After coats and vests came in, the rules of mourning required the diagonal sash worn over the coat to be of dull silk, black to mourn a man and white for a woman or child. Hat bands too must show grief, in the form of "weepers", lengths of thin mat black or white silk falling down the back. The aristocracy put aside its silks and went into wool, in the first extremity of sorrow." Page 119 Restoration London. FWIW, my avatar is a fashion plate, original to the GAoP time frame, showing garments for lesser mourning... full mouring actually shows a gown somewhat like a cleric's gown...and the weepers are much longer...actually the more I look at it, looks more like just a long black cloak.

Damnation! Next year it is... please let us know 2008 dates asap so we can make sure RF5 isn't going to be another conflict... two crewe members are key figures in running RF events... I would hate to leave them behind... ahem... so as soon as they know they can make sure MB plans accordingly...

^ depends on the weather, VA is calling for ice and no roads open until MAYBE Thursday... but then there is ... ahem... stuff we can do at home. < Firewood is set, generator is set, oil lamps set... bring on the snow and ice, just broke two toes...damnation! V Broken bones?