Zephyr

"Someone/s" could start "Pirate Scouts".....(why on earth was I waste'n me time me young life in Brownies?)(requesting?) I love this sort of thing! The details of life you don't commonly find in books ....thank ye for the "char cloth explaination"..... if ye don't feel like post'n about it, can ye steer me to a book on the subject?....start a new subject?....the practice/details of daily life............what did they use to heal wounds? common dietary knowledge? weapon maintenance, ship maintenance......not all today but as ye have time and tought of it.......

I'd 'ave said put me down for a craft booth.....but ye be a looooong way away................

Thank you! What is a charcloth? Cannon add dignity to what otherwise would be merely an ugly brawl I like it!

Dissapointment isn't even the word I'd give S. Faire these days.....it SUCKS is more like it! Where did everybody go you ask, well, as I said, the politics became so bad, lots and lots o' people, like me left for better grounds. I went a year ago, and couldn't believe how 'santitized' it had become. It's just AWFUL! I won't be goin' back. No I wasn't involved in the costume stuff back in Agoura. The only reason I got into working the costume shed the first season as San Bernadino, well, it's who you know.....I'll leave it at that. Ah, Capt. Grey us Force users aren't just your regular ol' bin o' apples. RumbaRue **I can imagine quite a lot** Glad I spared meself the drive this year...we almost went out'a olde-tymes-sake. RumbaRue.....did you do costumes and accessories there (Agoura) for a while? Asked cause I knew a Rue whos sister had a booth at the faire for a while( if I remember correctly)............... she was quite a clever lass, doing props for movies and such), tis not a common name. Or a commonly know herb. The Faire.....We lost heart for it after the Agoura faire closed. Yer tale explains the sullen atmosphere at Glenn (H?)Ellen ? aside from the small size of it and the lack of some of our favorite performers and artisans, the whole feel of it were...lacking............. tis been along time..... I hear some tried to start up another....is there anything local that you recommend? All the conversation here (PUB) has me inspired to go out and play again........

I have various nautical things about the house, sketches, patterns and some fabric.....a sword (wrong type probably....curved for dancing )....lots of ethnic jewelry and bits and pieces of leather, buckles, amber (well traveled pirate) books (and books and books) and fabric for a flag.....Oh, I finished the "Jolly" wine glass...not too piratical....but I was wondering, reading SeaHawke's post about PotC.....how did they start the fire? now...to my question......... What would a pirate have carried for her/his essentials in the golden age of piracy? (aside from tak'n anything they need as they go along) what items would have been considered important for comfort or survival?

All three of these are great books to have in yer library. I have the British version of "Pillaging the Empire" -- "Blood and Silver" -- bought while I was in Jamaica. I like the British title much better, more picturesque. It's a very good, concise history of piracy, with little sidebars at the end of each chapter on various related topics (coins of the era, shipwreck salvaging in the 17th c., what pirates ate and drink, etc.). The other two books are BIBLEs of the pirate histories. You should read those two first before reading anything else. Everyone else quotes from them, so you should go right to the source first, and read it all in context. The recent Schonhorn edition of General History of the Pirates, from Dover, is one of the best. It has extensive notes in it, and contains all the chapters from the various editions Johnson wrote. Good reading to you, --Jamaica Rose "It's not the length of the quill, but yer penmanship that counts."

I agree, I love the old illustrations. I used to have fun making "illustrations" in older styles of modern settings, it was a great kind of "confusion", like an Egypitan tomb style of a King getting into his Audi, old wood cuts of women with shopping carts, kids on skate boards! It was fun to duplicate the style so much that it took people a while to realize the subject matter was modern. It is funny how the stories differ, I'm reading Defoes book (Robberies...") and the stories are very different than Sherry's and Cordingly's. He writes with great enthusiasm though, I love his turn of phrase.

They're great! I'd downloaded a few scenes from a ...uh....particular movie, think'n of using them as Halloween cards, like "Seasons greetings from the bloody crew"...."....or maybe as Christmas cards.........I love the "breaking up"....

Ahoy, no apologies needed here mate. Now where did that rapidograph pen go? They glide so nice on a piece of clear acetate don’t they? I was better a pencil or pen/ink woman myself, liking oils a lot but lacking patience. No apolgies needed, and welcome (being as ye are not one a of those unsavory lot Tudor be avoiden a bit ago, me, I didn't even notice them being absorbed in conversation. Good to have yer mates watch'n yer back and the more the merrier (as likely in the Pirate Pub as amongst daughers of well born ladies....no one has manners like the southern born....nor the ability to put a comment over the unsuspecting (I do love it!)) Though there be plenty here that given half the chance would have more than a word or two to say about it to be sure. I'm imagin'n they be either mistaken or well deserved, for ye have me as a witness that ye be a faire spoken pyrate and no mistake. There be some nice things to say about the earlier versions of CorelDraw, though I'm not sure what. :) Plus all those vector based line and tangent drawing programs on the computer just stray so far away from the basic concepts of real world drawing and painting for me own liking. I mean I use them for logos and line art when I need to They can make a lot of work of simple things......Yer steps up on me, I just purchased a better scanner in the end and what I couldn't design, I freehand and copy...lots of limitations to that though..but it meets the needs. Looked at the Dover site. That's a treasure! Found Nautical Illustrations: 681 permission free..... Looks like the best back up, used it to round out the free shipper on a couple other shouldn't-be-buying-books that were well recommended.....why ever did they make this world so fascinating! I'm never gonna be able to catch up on it all! (vetching) when we can't sail, we tear the bone out 'o it.)... I'm in that fog again, though I did finally figure out the last one. Ye need to see this 'ole girl live and up close..your not in Kansas, Dorothy.... Aye, someday. Good fortune to ye and sooner than later (marinas). Nay, Kansas be a bit too dry. No offense meant to any, but fer me, I'd rather be on a coast. Though I have flown over it a few times (the middle part). Our coast be look'n not too pretty just now. Nice an stormy, fog, stormy surf, the moon come'n to full .....but the waters full on brown full'a rott'n kelp, foaming yellow ochre (not to mention the shore.....kelp...flies, dead bees, tar, garbage from Lor knows where).....I'll be walk'n ....somewhere else for a while......

for me self, not in any sense.

Me honor much appreciates your courtliness! I imagine ye do a bit a' writt'n too Sir, ye lack not for a quick mind! Ah, envious, I struggled for a while to learn CorelDraw (9), gave up an fell back to printshop......

I hope she does grow out of the Barbi phase soon.... My wee wench is just getting into Barbie. We managed to avoid the Barney phase by explaining extinction to her, but there's no getting away from the Evil Pink. she's everywhere Did ye know that a "Barney" is a pub term for a skuffle? Is ther a hidden message here? Watch out for all that pink ruffle stuff, me parents insisted on doin me bedroom in white furniture (with gold trim......) with lavender and pink ruffle everything (I wanted cherry wood and a red chinese lacquer dresser I'd seen in an antique shop ($$$).....I lost. I can't help but say that it's effected me for me whole life. It were worse for most a' me school friends. Some a' them still wanna-be-Barbie. Then, not a one of us had pythons.

Ye got it with yer first shot! Tried to run Real and then Media and neither worked. Drat. Probably same program that keeps corrupting IE .....("rats below decks"?)

....Welcome ye are Sir Tudor (though I be a Lady (under most circumstances and conditions)), understandably distressed at yer seeming to apologize for yer excellent suggestions and advice. Sir Redd seems to be away, plunder'n some on other thread (and when it comes to working from a b/w original, I can do well enough myself, though not adverse to a community project). I'm looking at the Dover books next/today (as an emergency back up ......maybe the fastest route, consider'n that gift-giv'n time of the year be rapidly approach'n, next year I be plunder'n me gifts! Got a bad neck-ache from hours a' painting wine glasses....(think'n a doing ye ole' skull and bones on a glass for me self...three gold teeth? ........yo ho ho an' a glass of merlot?)). ......Be ye a graphic artist Sir? The Royaliste is a beautiful boat (ship?) Sir. The pictures on yer website takes me breath! What a thrill it must be. Kindly remind me in me next life to consider throughly a life at sea. I'd a plan of gett'n back to some serious painting after the new year, it'd love to do a work of your ship (for me own).... Ye mentioned some other photos, I'm think'n full profile works best for this type of thing...did ye say ye already have some in greyscale?....Oh, and belated Birthday wishes.....what day? I'm 25th June (a' bit too close to Gemini per my horoscopial friends, but moon-powered nun-the-less)........