Tommy
I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o'beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here."
The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I:
O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
But it's ``Thank you, Mister Atkins,'' when the band begins to play,
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's ``Thank you, Mr. Atkins,'' when the band begins to play.
I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but 'adn't none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-'alls,
But when it comes to fightin', Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls!
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, wait outside";
But it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide,
The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide,
O it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide.
Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;
An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit.
Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy how's yer soul?"
But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll,
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll.
We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints:
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;
While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall be'ind,"
But it's "Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind,
There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind,
O it's "Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind.
You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires an' all:
We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country," when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
But Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees!
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pensive
Goodbye
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marcusstendahl I hope you have fantastic bright beginnings in the New World with your Beloved.
All the best for the future, and know that you will be missed.
Hope to see you again soon.
Many hugs
- Mood:
hopeful
I think this is definitely the one involving human figures that I enjoyed making the most. I think Marcus liked it....!
1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song or Album:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)
- Mood:
amused
Whatever way you have available to you with which to shorten the journey or which involves you having to do less work - take it, however expensive. Fly there, take the long ferry, whatever, just don't drive across Europe to get there.
We were brave and cheap. We won't be next time. Suffice it to say that when returning from an event which has tired you out (in a good way), you do not want to find yourself driving through Northern Europe in the dead of night, digging your nails into your arm just to stay awake!! We had Dover - Calais - Dover ferries booked and could not miss the timings. It could have been so much worse though. We had the company of
englandbound and covaithe and their daughter Valerie who is the cutest little girl and was a massive hit with event-goers! She really was so well-behaved on both trips.( Cut to spare your friends list )
I have discovered that I can produce a half-decent scroll in an afternoon if pressed, which is good to know! I have also discovered that Gyles's Squire brother Ho Chi, can breathe and juggle fire (who knew!), that it is possible to play baseball using a quarter-sized trebuchet and a great sword, that one can fool Landsknect by telling them that Rockall has a spa, that our tent is waterproof even in thunderstorms, that hot water-bottles are life-savers when camping in Sweden and that helping to sew for the Crown Princess has the happy side-effect of producing Mountain Dew, cookies and chocolate!!
So to all those who made it such a fantastic event for us - you know who you are - Edricus, Lia, et al. We will definitely be coming back!
- Mood: happy
covaithe and englandbound collecting them and the trailer.Work to do while at Double Wars: two scrolls and some tablet weave. Yes I am once again making a stab at Tablet weave and I don't know if I have made a rod for my own back by choosing a complicated strapwork design and choosing to make it out of linen! Since it is for John anyway, he is actually helping me warp the loom (the job I hate the most) and we are half way there and should finish it tonight.
I wonder if there are any "fun" events at Double Wars this year like year's "Ladies night" or one where you need masks. It would be good to know if we have to bring any extras with us.
I will have my work cut out after Double Wars though - with two major scrolls and a Viking outfit for John to cobble together for Coronation!
- Mood:
busy
......A falconer exercising and feeding his hawk in the quadrangle of a City of London housing estate......
I walk through there on my way to the office from Barbican tube station.
I was surreal......
- Mood: impressed
Do peers ever sit around and do the "My squire/protegee/apprentice is better than yours!"?
Has a Royal ever been peered while on the throne, or is that impossible?
Has a Royal ever given birth while at an event?
Who dreamt up the idea of calling them "Laurels" or "Pelicans" and what were the alternatives?
Anyone else?
- Mood:
contemplative
goncalves post to the IML about the invitiation from CADW to take part in their Medieval Christmas Fayre, I find myself pondering whether this could be the first glimmer of a chance for us to use Caerphilly Castle once again for an event........- Mood: thoughtful
| You Are a Cougar |
 Your power gives you confidence, and you find leading others to be easy. You believe that you need to the best, and you are very driven to excel. Most people immediately admire you, but some people feel very envious of your abilities. |
The colours have not scanned as warm as they look on the scroll. The dimensions are roughly 210x150mm. It is Based on a 15th century French Book of Hours
Tired but happy.
Got home in reasonable time yesterday. Weekend was good fun. The building was initially very draughty and cold (makes mental note for further event bids – must ask owners to turn heating on 24 hours before), but warmed up nicely on Saturday. The weather was gorgeous! And it stayed that way which was very nice.
I am so happy that I managed to get my entry finished in time to get it entered into A&S Protectors. I really thought it wouldn’t make it in, which would have been really disappointing – especially since I have missed the deadline for Crown Tourney A&S. I could see all the defects and things that I didn’t have time to go over and touch up or maybe improve, but still, all the bits that should have been painted, were painted! Considering that, and also the fact that I had to re-create my documentation from memory because I forgot to print it off before travelling (Doh!), the judges were very kind and encouraging and have added to my arsenal of knowledge, so that I now want to try other things.
Still to do:
Project entirely on background of gold (ie. Painting on goldleaf – yikes!)
Grisaille work (monochrome)
Those are both big stepping-stones for me in terms of things I want to have in my portfolio, after which I will probably putter about a bit doing more original stuff based on knowledge and experience acquired up to then. So far I don’t have much interest in dying parchment, which was a technique popular at one time, as I don’t much like it. But I might change my mind and try it once just for the heck of it.
Lord Peregrine Flamstead won A&S protectors with a most gorgeous hat. Covered with burgundy velvet and beaded all over, he had added an exquisite embroidered hunting scene around the brim. Really really lovely work. In fact all the entries were of amazing quality. I have never so far taken part in a competition that provided such a challenge!! On a side note, I haven’t ever actually eaten an A&S entry before –![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
ormsweird they were delicious!!
John is now an authorized fencer and was chuffed at doing well in the tournament he entered right after authorizing. The feast prepared by Lady Solange was delicious (the few bits that I tried as, unfortunately when involved in cooking I tend to lose my appetite!).
Jobs still to do:
2 scrolls for Double Wars
4 backlog scrolls
Plan menu for Woods Hunt
It never ends really does it! J
- Mood:
tired
In fact, this one might just about not make it.
*sigh*
- Mood:
worried
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - Bits of it!
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – Chunks of it!
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
- Mood:
accomplished
Blooming Councils! My OH phoned up to ask where he could get grit because obviously they were not going to come out to clear our road which was an uphill skating rink littered with abandoned cars that couldn’t make it out (and we live in a cul de sac). The council said they were conserving it all for the gritters and he would have to buy his own with no guarantee of a refund. He then pointed out that despite plenty of warning, they did not grit on Sunday night, so they should have plenty. This is where it gets good…..
The council told him they did not send out the gritters on Sunday night because……wait for it….they would have had to pay the drivers double time!!!!!!!!
No its no problem to them if people fall and hurt themselves, or cars crash into each other, or businesses with no staff and schools closed – just as long as they don’t have to pay their (probably poorly paid already) workers extra money!!
Fuming and with flowering bruises on my right buttock and elbow!
- Mood:
angry
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humbe
- Mood: impressed
Taught a class at Pennsic
Ran a court
Fought or fenced at an event while drunk
Worked the "Puking Duke" shift a Chirurgeons Point at Pennsic
Been an Event Stewart/Autocrat
Been an officer
Had a name and/or device accepted by the SCA college of Arms
Had a name and/or device rejected by the SCA College of Arms
Worked in at least three different volunteer departments at Pennsic
Written a scroll text
Ran a bardic circle
Attended a foreign war
Traveled more than 10 hours each way for a one-day event
Had the privilege of begging a boon for a Peerage
Spent the night in a hotel room with more people than the bed space holds
Slept in more than 1 tent at a camping event
Fought/fought for in a Crown/Coronet Tourney
Been to an SCA event/function in every Kingdom except Drachenwald and Lochac
Lived in three Kingdoms
Been in the SCA more than half my life
Won a tournament in five different kingdoms
Been authorized in a fighting style not legal in your home kingdom at the time
Met your future spouse at an SCA event
Taught at a Collegium
Ever had a Marshalate Complaint as a Heavy Weapons fighter or fencer
Ever have anyone request permission to conflict with your authorized device
Have at least one story that involves a camping event, alcohol and a porta privy
Ever had both a suzerein and vassal at the same time
Ever been present at the formation of a Principality - er yes actually - well its still in progress methinks!
Worked in at least three different volunteer departments at Great Western War
Ever been to an SCA event which was being covered by the press
Ever been quoted by the press regarding the SCA
Remember the Rattan shortages of a couple of decades ago
Ever participated in an experimental weapon program
Been to a "Known World" event
Been to another Kingdom's Crown/Coronation
Shouted another Kingdom's name at the end of a Royal Court
Ever made out with foreign Royalty at an event - is this foreign as in not belonging to your Kingdom, or just foreign compare to yourself?
Been the responsible officer during an "issue"
woken up at an event next to someone and couldn't remember their name
Flown to an event
Written a Coronation or Peerage Ceremony - Yes, but it wasn't used, does it count?
Received a Peerage from your future spouse before you were involved with him/her
Streaked a campsite at a War
Autocrated/Stewarded a kingdom event while pregnant
Had the same office twice
Watched one of your students accept their own peerage
Created a Kingdom Office or Deputy Office
Written an article for your Kingdom Newsletter
Had your peerage vigil at the Runestone
Ridden in a golf cart at Estrella
Own more than one pavilion/period tent at the same time, both usable
Hmmmm...looks like I haven't done that much really. Still here are my additional three (and I had to scrape the barrel!):
Won an A&S competition
Called someone by their Mundane name and SCA surname
Sung at a Coronation (with others I might add!)
At last I can show this.
This scroll is a result of a challenge I set myself. I have never done a proper miniature before, let alone one with a border. I am pleased with how it has turned out, but I know that there is alot of work still to do. The more I learn about this art, the more I discover there is to learn!! However I am pleased that I managed to pass the test I gave myself in a manner that I am happy to hand in.
In absentia, and through the help of Trinite and Ursula, I was able to enter this scroll in absentia at the Coronation Kingdom A&S competition.
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