edricus

We had our weekly fighter practice today, first one after double wars and it was great fun. There were five of us, me, Master George, Lord Mickel, Albrecht and Roidh al from the houshold and from the shire. But it was really great fun to se how much the guys had developed after DW.

Anyway Anna one of the new girls came buy and I was quick to hand her my camera so that I could get some pictures of me in armour.



It feels a lot better than the old one wich makes me feel safer and therfore I can go were I need to be in the fight.
The new shield is great, I just need to learn how to use it a bit better but it is really nice to fight with.

As usually life goes on.

I have had quite a busy feburary, I held the King Atte Winter Feast for our shire. It was great fun but a lot of work.
We were around 25 - 30 people I designed the menu and stood in the kitchen a lot, but I had Cecilia and Eira as assistants as well as a few others. I started of by holding a 2 hour introduction about the SCA for the new people. We had some from denmark and some from a few other places that visited us. It is always fun to make new friends.

  

 I have changed my workplace so now I have to commute for 35 minutes via train and I have to get to the trainstation wich is a good 20 min walk in the morning and evening.

Yesterday we held a preperation day for double wars so now we have a half finished sun roof and a lot of site tokens. Today we went with the shire to a reenactment store wich is also a cafe. We had scones with jam and butter and I bought 10 meters of wool. I got 2 meters of a beautifull orangie reddish colour that I plan to use for a viking caftan. I also got 4 meters of green and 4 meters of brown wool that I can use for trousers, tunics etc. I managed to pic up some patterns for viking clothing too so it looks like the next dress is going to be a viking/ saxon/ rus style. Wich goes well with my armour and the fyrd Halfdan.





We have shields comming, I have scales for my lamellar armour and paracord on the way. My Bazubands from Torvaldr has finaly arrived. So all I need to do is fix the new leg armor and sew the fighting kit.

Apart from SCA I have been going to a few interesting seminars. We did Yin Bagua Zhang for Fredrik, Sifu Wan Kam Leung from Hong Kong was in Malmö and held a seminar in Wing Chun and Andreas Hoffmann held a seminar in Gee Sim Weng Chun in Copenhagen. This was in three weeks. :) Next fun thing in the practice/ training area of my life is that we are going to master Brian in the end of march for a Tai Chi Chuan weekend. Hopefully I will get a lot closer to the end of the third section of the first form and finish the emtpy hands form. After that master Xian is here between the 5 - 11 th of april for a week of Xin Yi. That is going to be fun. 


Group photo after the Chi Sim Weng Chun Kung Fu seminar in Copenhagen. Great fun.

After that Double Wars and then.... I don´t know.

But the best thing is that I get to see J again soon.

I am surprised that the guy in red keept all of his fingers, and that he didnt injure anybody.
He and his friends were rather wreckless with how they fired and aimed and threw the firework around.
I sound grumpy.... ;) but its anoying when the fun is wrecked by this rather dangerous behaviour.


             

 

If you want so see more they are at my flickr page.

However the evening was really nice, it was me and three friends from my Kung fu club so we talked, ate, drank a few drams of whiskey, talked some more, had snacks, talked more etc. untill about 4 in the morning.

Chirstmas also passed and it was very fine. I got to see my sister and her family again. Wich always is nice. We all got toghether at our parents place for a few days and then went to my dads sisters place for the big family get together on the 24th. I must admit that X-mas for me is all about getting together with family and friends since I have chosen a different path than Cristianity.  Anyway. There are pictures from this as well. 


This is Lukas my sisters son, we were playing peekaboo.Though I used a camera.


My father helping Lukas unpacking one of his gifts. Lukas is sitting with his dad Stefan.
I enjoy the scene and the exitement and anticipation especially in the childs body language
but it is also present in the faces of the two men. Maybe I should have had the flash on higher
setting but it works with a bit of under exposure.


  
Tina my sister watching Lukas playing.                                           Stefan helping his mother in law, my mother Agnetha, with
                                                                                                                  the computer.

Here a self portrait of me. Even though the 
white balance is completley wrong I still like the tone of it.


More x-mas photos


And some late photos from the kitchen of the Nordmark Principality tournament november 2008. 



Some of the meat....


Lady Cecilia the feastocrat. She was the concort of Lord Richad who was one of the autocrats.
So to get everything working I stayed in the kitchen and cooked heated and prepared. Hard 
work but great fun. She is also the autocrat for Double wars XXI.

The preperations for the feast started at friday evening.

 
Danne, Eira and I think Lia in the background helping out.                                                      Lord Richard making glögg.



The rest of the very few pictures can be found here.

So take care all. I hope too see a lot of you at coronation or at other events in 2008.

Edricus.

Well I feel better, I can eat and I have an appertite wichi is good, still have a fever and a very anoying head ache. However I will try to survive the day and night without any of the horse pills.

Beeing sick is really boring. No energy to do anything. 

I feel frustrated over not training, I usually like to train 3-5 times a week preferbly close to 15 hours a week or so. It makes me feel great.
Since I am in the middle of changing workplace, at the same agency but going to a different branch, and Im also having one of the colds from hell that dont let go I have only been at 1 session per week. But today me and my colleague who also is changing work decided to make chocolate fudge cake for the whole office (100 people) I missed my beloved Tai Chi Chuan / QiGong Class that I attend and teach at thursdays. 

My body really wants me to move, I can feel the ache and the intentions of my limbs to go of and do stupid things. On the positive side is that the energy is transfering itself into good things and projects.

The good thing is that on monday at the new place I get a brisk 20 min walk to and from work, that is great, got raingear and good boots. 

But I like to train I do actually have a small problem understanding people who don't train and especially if they dont have any hobys at all I don't understand what they can be doing, watching TV?

 I need training and physical activites and since I also hapen to love martial arts its a good thing. I just wish I had the self dicipline to train form etc for an hour a day. That would be really nice.

However I am still on the century drill, today is day five and that is better than nothing. All training is better than no training.

Or to be more correct of the meta-me Edricus.

I decided to get a name and a device to register at the heralds of the SCA.

The device / coat of arms will proberbly be :

"Per saltire argent and vert, in pale two annulets gules."

The name will be the name I have been using for the last ten years in the so ciety.
Edricus Filius Offaeus wich is a latinised form of Edric son of Offa. The latinisation puts the name a bit after 1066 and I am in the process of finding documentation. 

Missed my Chinese class today, I worked late and was to tired when I got home.

 I almost forgott. Managed to do day 3 of the century drill. A training exercise for heavy fighting, the goal is to do 100 strikes a day for 100 days. As far as I know sir Marcus is one of the few who has manged to do this, not even the "inventor" of the drill Duke Radnor has finished it.

Started to plan a small book get together about the work of Tolkien with Angmar, the Tolkien society in Malmö. There is thss really cool place called Citypolarna that is kind of a online calendar were you can meet new people. Almost like an online dating service, but without the dating just being social. So I thought I'd try to get more people interested in Angmar and later on in Attemark our local SCA shire too.