Rain dammit!

[frualeydis]

Because it hasn't rained for two months on Gotland we're not allowed to cook during the medieval week. I don't much look forward to a week living on sandwiches. The weather forecast promised rain yesterday, today and tomorrow when I looked yesterday and the day before yesterday, but apparently no rain came and since then the forecasts have been changed and no rain is expected.
It really makes me not want to go.
Here, it has been raining a lot the last days, like when Rickard and I were going to take a walk with Maja today. She had a slight temperature today and was really ill yesterday; high temperature and sick, but we didn't think some fresh air would hurt. I just hope the rain didn't get her cold enough to make her ill again.

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[tattycat.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I know you're leaving soon, but is there a possibility of doing period or period-ish things in advance that would keep well and not require cooking?

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Nothing that would keep for nine days ;)
Anyway, I don't have the time now. There's still packing to do and Rickard is away and we start packing at 7.30 tomorrow.

Eva

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

Aww. But dysentery is *period*...

*ahem*

Woof. I wish you lots of luck and lots of fun. I'd send dried beef and loaves of bread if I thought they'd get there in time!

[m-nivalis.livejournal.com]

If you know someone staying in a flat there, could you cook at their place?

I hope you get some rain, hopefully at the beginning of the week and not the last day...

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Exactly. We all want dry weather when it's time to take down the tents. Because where on earth would you dry a 4 meter high, almost 4 x 7 metre pavillion?


Eva

[m-nivalis.livejournal.com]

Well, if it's a nice sunny weekend afterwards, I suppose your group could organise a spontaneous event in the city park?

[armillary.livejournal.com]

I'm bringing my Trangia. Yes, it's non-period as heck. But I want my food, and I can always find a corner where noone can see it to cook. I recommend you do the same, so the food budget can stay at a reasonable level.


By the way, who is riding in my car to Visby? You, me, Rickard, Maja ... anyone else? How are Anna and Kristian getting there?

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Not everybody owns a trangia. Not us, not Anna or Kristian, but yes it's a good idea. And you can use it in "the barn", that is: our pavillion.
Anna and Kristian are going in their car. Have you been sleeping every meeting, choir practice etc. the last months?

Eva

[armillary.livejournal.com]

Ok. Jehane is bringing hers too, so at least we have two of them.

And no, I haven't been sleeping at the meetings. Just not paying attention much :/

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

So propane or charcoal stoves are not an option? Even if you put them away after use? Interesting...

If we pack wet canvas, we end up having to take it to my parents' house to dry. They have a big enough backyard; we have none.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Nope. We have these small cast iron things on legs that you use charcoal in, but we're not allowed to use them. The given reason is that they stay warm long and that people don't watch them as they do with trangias, which are allowed (a trangia is a little stove mainly consisting of a container where you burn alcohol). I think it would be a better idea to tell people to always watch their charcoal stoves, trangias or wahtever they use. We are very responsible people as a group, there haven't been any fire the last fourteen years, probably not earlier either, but that's before my time.


Eva

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

I looked up the Trangias -- those are really cool! I've never seen anything like that in the US, but we tend to use a lot of propane-fired stoves. My household actually doesn't use firepits, both because they're rarely allowed (same reason as Visby -- fire hazards) and because we have some folks with asthma. I understand the charcoal thing, too; I imagine that a Trangia is much like the gas stove I have in my kitchen. Once the flame is out, it's out.