Lotti, Older, wiser and still having fun. No fun going to work feeling like a zombie.

Thank you, Lois. It was fun. As I keep my carneval activities fairly limited these days ( and almost alcohol-free), I actually wake up without headaches and get to just enjoy it all. Every morning as I walk to work I pass one of the main party-halls, and every morning there were a surprising number of walking corpses still out and about. And I was always so happy to have had a decent nights sleep behind me... I must be getting old

Lotti, I think I commented on your new Avatar before but you need to know that it continues to make me smile again and again. I keep thinking that you look as if you are having way, way, way too much fun!

looking forward to that / those blogs

Make sure you do that Rosemary

"I'll have to blog about some of my other pieces from the RSN sometime soon."

I am looking forward to that, Rosemary.

Suewarby wrote: And Henry the V111 swiped it off Cardinal Wolsey, after they fell out about his divorce from Catherine of Aragon (wife no. 1) was it legal etc.

I'll have to blog about some of my other pieces from the RSN sometime soon.

For those of you who may be interested in Embrodiery the RSN we keep mentioning is the Royal School of Needlework who are now based at Hampton
Court Palace (Henry the V111 ths Pad) there work is amazing all Hand embroidery , It is the best in the Country if not futher afield as well . So our
Rosemary must be pretty talented at embroidery . Had a look around there web site and found this lovely image done by an apprentice at the school
pretty impressive I would say.



I had forgoten how truly scrumptious Michael York was back in the day , Hot flush coming on again

Ah...That's the Mr. York I remember !!

When I was at the RSN it was still at 25 Princes Gate (I left when they moved to Hampton Court) Just up the terrace was the Iranian Embassy that got seiged, and the RSN was used as the base for operations during the seige, but that was before my time there.

Part of the reason that the Bradford Table Carpet is in such good condition is probably because - as the name says - it was kept on the table rather than on the floor, and I guess, when it went out of fashion it was rolled up & put in the attics and forgotton about. I really must go and find out it's history now I think about it...

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No getting in trouble for educating us--love the eye candy.

Holy moly! He's gorgeous! Didn't know who Michael York was. Thanks for posting this pic!

Fascinating Rosemary I bet you miss it now. Bet we will get in trouble for talking History and not quilting , one last
Question were you at Hampton Court which I where I believe the Royal School of Needlework are based ?
Had a look at the Bradford table carpet on the V and A website , it looks in amazing condition for its age
Which is 1600-1615




I loved Michael York as well this was a great version of the Three Musketeers not been bettered since.
Just posting a bit of eye candy as a treat Henry Cavill from the Tudors , now I am getting all Hot and
Bothered





Back to reality now must go and do some more Paper Piecing sorry the pictures got a bit mixed up somehow.

I don't mind being asked at all. Personally I fell in love with d'Artagnan & the Three Musketeers at the age of about 8 (saw the Michael York/OliverReed/Frank Finlay/Richard Chamberlain version first) and got hooked on that period of history big time! - I even took up fencing when I had the chance Collected videos of all the different versions, collected all the books by A. Dumas Pere, (there are actually 6 in the series!) Because the time period crosses over with the Great Civil War of 1642, when I tripped over a small re-enactment with my best friend we were very easily recruited I also am interested in the tudor period, partly because for my O level embroidery I had to write about embroidery from a previous period and I chose to do the Elizabethans, at which point nearly all books lead you back to a)The Bradford Table Carpet, b)Bess of Hardwick and c) Mary,Queen of Scots, sometimes it was tricky getting past these three to find out anything else that was happening

With the re-enacting it is a very rounded look at history, you consider everthing, clothes, food, drink, why drinking beer was endemic (safer than water) how things were cooked, what was cooked, going back to the documents of the day for first hand references and then trying out how things were done following their records, it can become utterly fascinating. And you could follow this down for everything that was used, weapons, tools, tactics, surgery, carpentry etc, etc.. Then you get charactors like the gentleman who got so into period brewing that he became known as the Hooch Master General for 'brewing and vintning above and beyond the call of sanity' He got this title for trying out a period recipe for chilli mead - 4 oz of chilli to 1 gallon of mead (and that would have been the smaller sized gallon that the americans still use too) This was the stuff of legand, and the bragging rights of having survived a small mouthful were enormous