[MR] Your suggestions please

Thu Oct 14 10:32:00 PDT 2010

Lady Dulcy,

I don't think you're a "lone voice" on the point of flourescent lights at
feast. I, too, wish that we ate by candlelight more often (though honestly
many medieval feasts would have been held at midday or under blazing
torchlight, the better to actually see one's food). That said, it seems
there are so many feasthalls that do not allow open flame that many of us
have lost the habit of packing candles in our feast gear... such that even
when candlelight might be an option, when the lights are dimmed many tables
are completely dark (not an appetizing way to eat ones' dinner!), myself
among them.

Might it be possible for autocrats to mention (if space allows) that halls
DO allow open flame, to remind people to bring feast? And if this is
important to you (not Lady Dulcy, but anyone reading this), bring an extra
candle so that an outcry of "we're in the dark!" doesn't get raised when the
flourescents are dimmed?

Mon grain de sel,
Baronne Guenièvre de Monmarché

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Gina Shelley <paintedwheel at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> Well, i've been kvetching about having to eat under flourescent lights for
> years.
>
> One thing that made me return was the magical aura of the feasthall at
> night. It was a TIME MACHINE. Now, we're a bunch of dorks in costumes
> sitting around a gymnasium. However, I am a lone voice crying in the
> wilderness in that regard.
>
> Second thing that brought me back was the way I was treated. People thirty
> years ago made sure newcomers had a great time and felt welcome. I realize
> we have all sorts of things set up for that nowdays that we didn't have back
> then. They don't seem to be as effective as good old fashioned social
> inclusion. I hear over and over and over "Well, we tried to get involved
> years ago, and everyone was so cliquish and it was hard to connect so we
> just gave up." I heard it once again from a good friend a WoW (btw,
> Charlotte...my friend and his wife are now involved locally because of you
> guys. He says you all are very cool and very welcoming, so great job. Thanks
> for taking care of my friends.)
>
> I wish I had a nickle for every time I have heard that newcomers did not
> feel welcome. And it makes me sad, because I know most of the locals around
> here are not like that. They are great folks. So I don't get it.
>
> Anyways, I gotta get off here and get to work. Have a good weekend. ;-)
>
> Dulcy
>
>
> >
> > Greetings all - I need your help.
> >
> > I would like to hear some of your suggestions on how we can work together
> > to create the middleages in a better way.  What can we do now to make our
> events
> > seem more like they would have if they had truly been held in period.
> >
> > Think back to when you were new to our Society.  What was it that made
> you come
> > back time after time?
> >
> > Please email your responses to me at Elizabetsca at ymail.com.
> >
> > Elizabet
> >
> > Elizabet de Roslyne
> > Kingdom Chatelaine
> > House Askoldssonn, Atlantia
> >
> >
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