Look, the whole episode has been quite pathetic. Most of the posts were people responding to what someone said someone had said, or meant, rather than what was actually written down. Personally I'd have ignored the requests to remove it, but what's the value in bringing it back, just so that someon...

so in effect you deleted them not split them off as they are no longer viewable by non-moderators. Given the whole storm in a teacup/toys out of pram affair that these 'non constructive' comments caused and the resultant debate regarding sly and back handed comments, surely it would have been better...

split and placed where...or do you actually mean deleted? (as I fail to find the split thread anywhere else at the time of posting)

I'm trying desperately to remember the name of the LH museum in America which has just the kind of portrayal many here seem to envisage: Imagine wandering to the edge of the town, onto the farm. As a member of the public you can see a man accross the other side of a field, in period garb (Victorian...

gregory23b wrote: Didn't MM bring some France as well?

no

@G23b http://www.carr-taylor.co.uk/shop/wxcya ... /p-81-154/ as ref'd in the first post

best results have been from macerating the parsley (stems as well as leaves) then grinding in a mortar along with small quantities of hot water. the resultant pulp then squeezed out and the liquid used. We've tried all sorts of things from the simple method above, to distillation and using alcohol, ...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2336/2401267088_2b29fa1261.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/223/503712410_a8b38955c6.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/202/503711900_1055015521.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/503751429_221dafffce.jpg ¶Poumes. ¶Take fayre buttys of Vele & hewe hem, and g...

I am not very well educated and may not write down things in the best queens english ,but many reenactors replying to threads don't bring someones inability to write gramma as it should be done it was, I believe, your constant failure to use the carriage return/enter key that was being questioned b...

http://homepage.mac.com/shelleywalsh/Ma ... ition.html

will give a very brief summary of how to add and subtract using one if you didn't already know.

Bodiam, 1991

As there seems to be a whiff of the past in the air....have these for your 'enjoyment'

yes, the likeness is staggering.....but then that's what he's matured into...... oooh, more moodiness :twisted: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2666/3951510592_e4056f7c6c.jpg and God alone knows why he's caressing his 'gourd' like this..... http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2477/3951510476_eed4d78f05.jpg

ooh, doesn't Griff look butch

very nice......had you seen these, could be of interest to you

http://www.stowmaries.com/

and

http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/

well there's always your popeye impression http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1273/763572797_3d2c9e8841_m.jpg made worse by the strapping http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1131/764433552_cd6a255162_m.jpg :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: although it does look like i'm some kind of perverted stalker having all ...

bring it on Porto...bring it on!

Like I said the other day, after the news on Friday everything is sweetness and light now

So where is the photo of you without a beard?

Glad to be of service

unlike you badger boy

Captayne Mandylyon wrote:I'm not sure if Bazzer still does them. Anyway he lives in Wales where they don't have electricity. I haven't seen him for 8 years!

That's not true! He got 'leccy in 2000

8 years....you should be so lucky, we have to see him every month

Sophia wrote:I just thought I would throw this into the mix as as a possible solution to the layering issue.

Early tights??

Though the attached hose are knitted it would seem logical that one could do the same with cloth netherstocks.

Sophia

Thanks Sophia...more grist to the mill

British Library has an illustration from c.1540 of an English captain of foot wearing v tight hose up to knacker level and what look like slashed 'pumpkin' breeches in a different colour. In fact if it wasn't for the date you'd swear it was 'Lizabeeethan'. c**k, I'd forgotten about that one! Probab...

No sly dig intended, merely the simple question 'why debateable?' Your second post though clarifies matters as I believe what you are asking is simply put as "were the top and bottom of the leg covering garments seperate items or one?" Would that be correct? I have yet to see an illustrati...

what makes you say 'debatable' out of interest?

they are quite obviously portraying 'olden times' or 'the times of legend'

looks like a "grisset" used for making rush lights.....heat the fat in the pan and run the rush from one end to the other.

Any chance of another 'culinary cut 'n' shut' this year or is it spits full of swans in jerkins? You could do porkpie in the shape of a frog with his head up his own rectum.........but that wouldn't take much work as I understand you already have one. :wink: lmao...new keyboard please git! Yes we'v...

best 2 or 3 hours spent after work that I can remember......dismantling animals then creating new ones all whilst getting wildly tipsy with your mates....priceless.

Grymm wrote:Hmmmmm, I wonder if there's anything about jerkins in it?

surely you meant to type gerkyn hmmmmmm tasty

Aren't some of those bog people tattooed, though? yes, as is Otzi the 'iceman' as well as many of the Pazyryk (?) mummies from the Eurasian steppes. Using charcoal dust as the pigment leads to a blue ish tattoo. The pigment can either be rubbed into the pricked holes or applied by sewing where a si...