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A Sunday out with Mia
Scottish Mercenaries of the 16th Century
On colgaffneyis Website I recently received an inquiry about reenacting Scottish mercenaries of the 16th century. In response I wrote the following: Continue reading
Deer River notes
More Deer River Prep
Getting Ready for Deer River
Scots in the Thirty Years War
From 400-year-old Scots ready to reveal their battle secrets:
“A MASS grave of soldiers, including Scots, slaughtered during Europe’s bloody Thirty Years War is yielding up valuable information on how they had lived.”
Pillaging, Vandalism, Extortion….and Enjoying the Sermons
Letter from Nehemiah Wharton, a sergeant in the Army of Parliament, August 1642.
This is from early in the English Civil War. Soldiers in the 30 Years War (still going on) generally behaved worse.
Loading Gear
The Down Side of Cleaning House
mia_mcdavid, James, and I are all going to colgaffneyis camp at the White Oak Rendezvous this weekend. James has missed the last couple Clann events and some of his gear needs work. Mia wants to repair his breeches, and she called me to ask where they were. I replied that they were in a pile of my stuff on top of the bookcase under the window in in our bedroom.
She replied “No, there is nothing there. You cleaned it.” I had in fact cleaned off the top of the book case, and everything else on my side of the bedroom a few weeks ago. However, the piles of stuff had been there so long that they were still fixed in my mental image of the bedroom.
Now I have to remember where I put the breeches. I am sure it seemed like a very logical place at the time :-)>