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Posted: 1st Jun 2006
Hi Dunc,

Do we have to be offsite on the Monday evening or Tuesday?

Gayle.....!

Posted: 1st Jun 2006
The Monday evening

There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees

Posted: 1st Jun 2006

 Written by: Sym


Well I'll be at Kentwell Hall the week after - I'm sure we could have a re-enactor smell off

I'm terribly jealous. Rather fancy a trip to Kentwell. Was talking to a bonkers bloke at Traquair at the weekend who re-enacts a barber-surgeon (has his own 'blood' recipe) and a bookbinder. Fascinating chap. Think he's surgeoning at Kentwell.

Muggins is still learning, but getting there. Trying to concentarte on costume, but keep being side tracked by spinning, weaving, dying, shoemaking, braiding and food. Suppose it's all kinda linked really. Trying to persuade the OH that we really do need an authenty tent with cook fire equipment.

Get my lovely shiny new sword soon

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

KITTENS!!!!

Posted: 1st Jun 2006
Was he Welsh with a round face beard? He's called Dave I think...nice chap

You should come along to Kentwell - I'll talk to you about it at play (well, I'll forget, but if you find me I will!). I've been going for about 15 years.

I work on the forge there, so if you want any authenty cooking stuff let me know

There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees

Posted: 1st Jun 2006
Oooh! Yes please. I desperately want a cauldron. Just cos. And just about everything else. (And don't tell Stuart!)
I'm a disgrace really. If we could afford a proper medieaval house, I'd convince him somehow. The idea of cooking on a huge fire as in the tower houses makes me get all enthusiastic. Plans are in my head for making a thenty tent so we can have a fire in it, but I have't told him yet.

Problem with most stuff is, it's kinda miles away from us. Doubt we'll make it this year cos we've got BFHS AGM weekend after next, then Tatton, then Play, sort of week off but planned going to Game Conservancy council Country fair thing (very un PC), then Tewkesbury. After that the car will probably be dead, and so will we. I'll have a word with sir though. God knows when we'll get the kit washed. Which reminds me, need to make padded jack before AGM.

Hmm this is a tad off topic.

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

KITTENS!!!!

Posted: 1st Jun 2006
Can you make my brother an arming jack whilst you're at it?

His gf is too busy making kit for paying customers to make stuff for him

Meh

Posted: 1st Jun 2006
Do you know the reenactor song?

Maybe we should stop taking the thread off topic and wait till play....

There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees

Posted: 1st Jun 2006
The catering is now sorted. We have a lovely poly tunnel Vegan/veggie food guy who even has his own caberet stage

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Posted: 1st Jun 2006

 Written by: Dunc

a lovely poly tunnel Vegan/veggie food guy

Is he likely to have a strop if anyone was drunk enough to try and kiss Ed?

not that that's likely to happen....again...

Meh

Posted: 1st Jun 2006
If only there was evidence .

I'm probably going to be extremely hungover on the thursday, because even though my actual 21st is on the thursday cos im not in hull everyone from my bar is making us party the weds night, oh dear

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind

Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife

"Will's to pretty for prison" - Simian

Posted: 2nd Jun 2006
Will there be meat anywhere aswell or should we bring our own?

Posted: 2nd Jun 2006
Can people please stop saying the word "meat" its not healthy for a single girl with an overactive immagination! xxx

tHeReS gOoD aNd EvIl iN EaCh InDiViDuAl fIrE, iDeNtIfIeS nEeDs AnD fEeDs OuR dEsIrEs.

Posted: 2nd Jun 2006
C'mon Vix....you love meat as much as the rest of us! Don't go pretending you don't!

Posted: 2nd Jun 2006
What's the rules on cooking for self? Assuming no open fires, but any probs with stoves / trangias?

See, on topic. I can do that.

Don't think I know the re-enactors song. Our lot tend to concentrate on eighties death metal.

Cantus, yes, as long as he doesn't mind waiting a few weeks and pays for material. I'm not brilliant at collars without being able to fit them properly though and seem to ahve an issue with dividing by 4 if last nights pattern drafting is anything to go by. PM me or something.

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

KITTENS!!!!

Posted: 2nd Jun 2006
I have the time off

Posted: 2nd Jun 2006
We will have cooked meat onsale (ie burgers, bacon sarnies etc) and there is locally sourced organic fresh uncooked meat available in the shop.



Cooking yourselves is no problem, just so long as you don't scortch the ground please, cows and sheeps don't like cooked grass ya see



JON!! YEY!!

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Posted: 2nd Jun 2006
yay just got my ticket all i have to do now is get the time off work!
if she says no to time off ill just have to get a different job when i get home
yay excited now!

Posted: 3rd Jun 2006
hey, it's highly likely I'm only going to be there for the weekend, so will anybody kindly let me snozzle in their tent on saturday night? (only) I would be much obliged. Plus I wouldn't have to drag a tent around and put it up only to sleep in it just the once...

??

"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade

I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.

Posted: 3rd Jun 2006
**UPDATE**

Hello everyone! An update for you all, you may or may not get this by email!

The festival is only 19 days away and everything is shaping up to be an excellent 5 days playing in the Shropshire countryside!!

We have a huge array or performers and workshops at PLAY Festival, you can now expect everything including trapeze, acro, awesome contact manipulation, juggling, spinning, an awesome indor show, cabaret, fire sculpture and two fire shows!! Yes that’s right TWO fire shows!

There will be music playing all day with live sets before and after each show in genres from ska to drum and bass, blues to punk rock and anything in between! There will also be dj’s to take you through to sunrise or until the tent empties of people

We have the Pixie Project Cinema coming down and providing a lovely area inside their dome for you to watch art films, independant movies and of course the PLAY Festival 2005 DVD!
We also have a chill out dome that will be playing more tunes after the shows have finished each night

There will be a few traders onsite, selling anything from essential clips for your fire poi to a new set of juggling balls or flags perhaps.
We will also be selling our own props, lovely fluffy cone poi, staffs and fire staffs with a whole new design you’ve probably never seen before! Thanks to the wonderful donation of manufacturing labour as a gift to PLAY Festival all the props we sell ourselves will be at very good prices.

TICKETS - If you haven’t already booked your ticket please note that they go up to £30 on the 7th June!! Book before then to get the discounted price of £25.

The catering is now sorted after the recent cancellation by Moonbeams due to a family illness, we now have another vegan/veggie caterer on site as well as our own twice daily meat cook ups with burgers and bacon sarnies etc.
There is also a farm shop onsite where you'll be able to get all your daily supplies of milk, sugar and bread etc. Most likely veggies too.
Self catering is fine but please ensure you dont burn the grass wiht your cooking equipment, portable BBQ’s etc must be elevated so once we’ve left the sheep and cows aren’t forced to eat cooked grass Eye-wink

We’ll be sending out more updates as we get closer to the festival, hope to see you all there!!

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Posted: 3rd Jun 2006
We also have loads of really cool prizes to be given away at the games and during the weekend. All thanks to the lovely Malcom Crawshay who runs a little website for spinners and jugglers and stuff. It's ok, I hear they have a pretty cool community and shop going on there

Thanks Malcolm!!

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Posted: 4th Jun 2006


19 days?!?! I kanny wait.


Thanks Malcolm!

Posted: 4th Jun 2006
oooo not long now at all, i kanny wait either!

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind

Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife

"Will's to pretty for prison" - Simian

Posted: 4th Jun 2006
really getting excited about this. with the music and stuff, is there going to be any psy trance dj's? is there going to be people wearing any cyber gear? i have all mine in the back of my wardrobe and it needs to be worn as the police shut my club down i used to be a dancer at.

Posted: 4th Jun 2006
excited!!!!

can i spin my staff LIT at play, and where?

Posted: 4th Jun 2006
Me too

You will be able to spin fire at play, yes. We'll have a fire spinning area for you to spin in, that will have saftey people watching you and fire buckets/blankets ready incase of problems. Because of that, you'll not be able to spin fire out side of this area.

Hope that helps

There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees

Posted: 4th Jun 2006
I want a T-Shirt!



Pretty please?



I'm sooooooo professsional...
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"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade

I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.

Posted: 4th Jun 2006
With 3 Ss? My that is very professsional indeed
Will you be running a "begging to be involved at Play" workshop Meg?

Meh

Posted: 4th Jun 2006
begging? I was asked for, by NAME! so there!

Plus I'm not for play, I'm for playing!

not as professsssional as porfesssssssssssssssssional.

"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade

I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.

Posted: 4th Jun 2006
Sneaky sneaky Meghan changing her posts...

Meh

Posted: 5th Jun 2006
I have the time off work and my ticket... be seeing you there. (If i can get a lift maybe... or someone very brave who will sit with me while i drive) xxx

tHeReS gOoD aNd EvIl iN EaCh InDiViDuAl fIrE, iDeNtIfIeS nEeDs AnD fEeDs OuR dEsIrEs.