Hugo a été plus vite que moi! L'adresse y est donc avec tous les détails.

Excellent français cher ami!

à bientôt,
Evelyne

I said:

Dear Dustin,

Hugo was faster than me! There is the adress with all the details.

Excellent French dear friend!

Foam vs. Steels and the Winner is?

Highs of 64 to 68 F.
Lows of 42 to 51 F. at night... There is chance of little rain...

So bring your heavy clothing!

That could change in the next day... but...

Details!

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A very good turnup, despite the fears of heavy rain. The weather turned up quite nice for the vast majority of the time, with a couple 5-minute showers here and there.

Once again, we were amazed by the efforts put up by the participants to improve their representation. We saw very few situations of outright anachronisms, keeping in mind that the intent of the event is to create a feeling more than a true immersion.

Everybody said they had a great time at the post-mortem meeting, and we took notes of stuff to improve for next year. Being closely involved in the organisation, I will let other people make a less biased report.

As a closing note, it was a great pleasure to meet the guys from Grey's. Miles and Dustin were great additions to the event. The quality of the representations and the materials they brought did not go unnoticed. Thank you for taking the time to come meet us at our little picnic in the 15th century.

I can't had nothing to the message of Hugo, all is said!

You can see some pictures we taked of our group at the event : http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2122577418

Hugo will make a web page with the pictures of other groups in the next days/weeks.

My only disapointment: I didn't have all the time I wished to talk with you, Dustin and Miles. Too much cooking and too much work with some stuff for sale. :/

I hope to see you again have more time to talk and share!!!

Evelyne/Gerdrud

[ 07-09-2007: Message edited by: Evelyne Bouchard ]

It was pretty good, great weather, hot sun in sunday, enought wind to blow mosquitos away!

And for the participant, a good response!

130 persons, about half of it, XVth c.

Plenty of idea for the next year! So prepare yourself and your group, we hope to see you there.

It is probably gonne be on 4-5-6 of july 2008

For the rest of it, the pictures talk for themselves!

ciao
hugo P.
AKA Bougrebon

Evelyne, you have one of the greatest living history encampments I’ve ever seen.

And I hope to meet you again when we have more time to talk.
Here is the link to the 14th century reproduction bronze cauldron you liked so much. http://www.thadenarmory.com/sell/cookware/cookware.htm

Hugo I’m going to put on cd the Photo’s I took and send them to you to posted.

I was told it’s about 3 miles long area of land most of it is trees and fields most of the LARP buildings are out of the way and a lot of it actually looks good, and the number of carts that can be used to transport tensed equipment camping gear armor to the site they are made to look rustic and are wheeled off the site when not in use, near the campsite there is a water spigot with portable water.
The toilet facilities look rustic to but are kept well stocked with paper and antibacterial cleaners and a bottle formula 49 cleaner.

If you wish not to have to drag a along a tent they had a actual inn timber frame construction and drink and eat in the basement or on the main floor the upstairs of several rooms with showers

Here's the thing the keep this event open timeline wise from 500 to 1600 but then that there were some good examples of periods stuff but I'm not going to get picky for a event this size, I can say this there were no modern folding chairs being covered with blankets.
I did see Hugo telling people they can't going to camp dressed like that in asking people to take off their watches, Hugo would look at me and say living history is new to Québec it is a work in progress.

The group that Hugo is in had 13 men 6 women and 2 baby’s present, Burgundian mercenaries artillery (I'll just call them Companions) there campsite which they are openly addressing some LH issues, after setting up the Grey's soldiers tent the companions supply officer came over to check out the tent asking general questions such as who was the tent made by and how it's set up.

The first thing I noticed was the professional manner in which the camp was run as I would soon find out a number of the companions had served in the Canadian military

The campsite very colorful was with a large number of banners and flags.
One banner in particular was the Le duc de Bourgoyne LeLay Emprins I was told it was given to them when they were in Europe by the Town of Burgundy, it is a Lovely period banner.

The companions are very active gamers play in a number of medieval table games as well as games they have minstrels I found it to be a very pleasant atmosphere for myself.

There is a second unit of Burgundian pikemen about 10 men (big 18’ ash pikes) most of them were from Québec city in their newly formed still a little rough around the edges but past for most look good this unit follows orders of the field commander the companions Captain. The pikemen training is going along very well, I know because I faced them in the field in simulated combat with more than one on one something I've not done in over 15 years it was a blast.

Now on this trip up to Canada I took on the role of a gentleman man at arms I’m normally a yeoman archer in the Grey's but this way I could interact with the officers in the Burgundian units more effectively.
After the camp was called to arm up and form up the Companions Captain invited me to walk with him in the front of the line.
Dustin who is new to the Grey’s was asked if he'd like to use his handgun for this little exercise so I loaded on as much extra equipment to his kit making and carry a tree ax and wooden shovel haversack with some carrots with the green sticking out and a canteen it was just to bad we were in Canada I would've taken a live chicken with me for him to carry.

The Captain shouted out in French commands to his men and we moved out with the troupe singing into battle these guys do sing a lot, when crossing the Creek I saw he had full command and control of his troops it was a most impressive deployment and great leadership not unlike what I've seen when I was doing Americans civil war, must say I loved it.

I also witnessed some very good archery shooting by Patrick Doiron who is a professional Bowyer and Fletcher/arrow smith archery instructor and Canada's archery champion I talked with him for some time even shooting one of his bows is impressively skilled. He is part of a performance professional jousting troupe he's a trick shooter.

The small Swiss Camp is one of the best period living history displays I've seen Wow.

As well as meeting two reenactors who put on a class in 15c.century medieval dance and a great little two-person living history camp (if you're out there I loss/misplaced the card with your info on it the so please contact me)

It was great meeting with Francois L’ARCHEUEQUE a he’s 23 years old young but started working armor at the age of 9 (a Mozart prodigy type armor making kid) very greatly skilled armorer who makes amazing armor I told him I'd like him to make me a full Gothic harness for use outside the Grey's, I was very impressed with his work we talked for hours on various subjects he is one cool dude.

I had the great pleasure of meeting Marie-Chantate who is a friend of Charlotte's (in the Gray's) she came up to me and introduced herself to me.
A impressive seamstress and charming lady I must say I was quite happy meeting her. And I hope to speak with her again

I had a Super Great time
Miles

Thanks for the reports!

On the other hand, I would like to know what are the "Flaws" of the event...or maybe for our troups. You can send me a private E-Mail about that...

It's always interesting to see how exterior people see us. We also like to have some things to work on to be more and more accurate, even details!

Barnevelder hen of Holland layed Dark Brown Developed in late 19th century and early 20th century in Holland for dark egg laying. Developed from an older local variety that may date as early as the 12th century. In recent history, some strains have been bred for show and others for the darkness of their eggs.

So,by definition and research, it appears that if the Swiss actually raided chicken coops in Holland, they might have gotten dark brown eggs for their trouble, but NOT light brown. It is most likely that only white eggs were actually available to them.

Appenzeller or Appenzell a swiss chicken lay white
http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html

Miles

Gentleman Farmer

We never think about that...And the common idea is to take brown eggs...Auffra make some research about old vegetables and fruits, but we never think about the colours of the eggs...

One more thing we will take care the next time!

But now you about eggs.

Miles

[ 07-13-2007: Message edited by: Fire Stryker ]

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Je Lay Emprins = I have undertaken it.

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