[MR] Your suggestions please

[David Chessler]

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Received: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:32:49 PM EDT
From: Guenievre de Monmarche <guenievre at erminespot.com>
To: Gina Shelley <paintedwheel at hotmail.com>Cc:
atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Subject: Re: [MR] Your suggestions please

> 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.

Carry a candelabra as your "hard parry device" in case you decide to fight
rapier in a tavern brawl scenario. If you don't break it, you can use it at
feast



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