Up the Apples and Pears - 10 / 10 club - all welcome

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oh he is actually seeming quite interesting through your eyes 100 - but really he is more of the common or garden 'I've got a headache, you're not wathcing that are you' variety.

And to think my dh was just worried about Boco's dds rifling through his bits of paper.

This is quite revealing actually. We should have a What Would Your DH Worry About if Boco came to house-sit thread.

am going to make supper.

Someone email franny and ask her what she's playing at.

If someone who wasn't me came to house sit, dp would worry about all the mountains of books with little bits of paper stuck in all the pages in certain key places, stacks and stacks, all different coloured paper.

It's like that scene in a beautiful mind where she walks into the garage that he thinks is a secret control room because he's mad, but its all full of insane scribblings stuck everywhere in an unhinged fashion. At the moment he's reading 'the captive mind' and talked to me for an hour about communism last night.

No swords though, but lots of maps.

Weren't you involved in re-enactments at some point Boco?

Or was that someone else?

I think Boco got quite heavily into Elf World didn't she?

Someone Else.

Boco.

100x you're much more the re-enactment type - i can see you in your Joan of Arc costume, directing everyone from your pyre 'young man, yes you - Kevin or whatever, could you try to look slightly more menacing? It is jolly good fun, but don't giggle, you'll spoil it for everyone.'

lol. Can I have a good cropped haircut for the part?

I thought it was Medieval, but if she's denied it, we'll best leave it at that.

library.shu.edu/gallery/arc-Joan_of_Arc_Engraving.jpg

Here I am, in need of a haircut.

Yes. And you'd be concerned about lighting. It would have to glint off your chainmail convincingly.

lionheart honest, it's not me, i have no medieval re-enactment experience At All!

Yes, it so would. I'd have my own personal lighting crew, and all the other re-enacters (that can't be right, can it?) would moan and groan and say 'You're not doing this right. It's not like that. Who made you Joan of Arc anyway.'

I'd take a trailer and a make-up assistant.

Not even that one time you helped out your friends when they were one man down and promised you a spit-roasted banquet

and the first installment of a darkly epic tale afterwards?

Oh, o.k.

I'm sure there was one 10/10er who did this once.

You so would, and you'd convince them that zesters and jiggers and the like are both proper and dashing, and the importance of ice tongs and cocktail sticks etc, and you'd make them believe that these were the corner stones of history and of course joan of arc had access to them, and they'd go along with it, but they'd mutter behind your back because they'd want to do more charging and roaring and less decanting.

Lion my sil and bil had a medieval hogroast in full costume recently, but i was snooty about it and i didn't go.

I'd say 'Just before she was martyred, she had a cocktail party. So we need to rehearse that now please. NO put that sword DOWN, raise your little fingers please and be charming with the ice.'

I believe you, boco, honestly. I think someone will come on here later and tell us it was them.

They'd lock me in my trailer and shout rude things at me through the keyhole. Then I'd cry.

And that would be that.

And you'd say, 'look soldier, if you can't truly appreciate the sparkle of crystal, why are you even here? Pass the jigger, ...no, that's a zester!'

LOL. Ok I must go and make some food. Suitcases are not packed. Nothing is ready. I am excited though.

I wrote my dissertation on Joan of Arc but I've never dressed up as her. I became worryingly hardened to her death in the end.