Guild Admin meeting at Fagans
So I visited a Pub for the first time ever today...
This years annual mandatory administrative meeting was held a Fagan's Irish pub. I've never been to a pub before, but hey...How much trouble can 20 Irishmen and 4 honory Scotsmen get into?
Fagans is defitnly a place to see, Irish memobirallia hangs from every wall and two huge Irish flag, including the Irish harp...Which is Ireland's national symbol. All the decor is very nice and some is quite old, giving the place a very established feeling. All the menu items (with the exceptions of fish and chips :p ) are Irish and the poor waiter and lone bartender had to whip up about 20 orders of shepherds pie by themselves.
As for the meeting, it was generally decided that last year was a good year and we had the usual debate over which faires to attend. As usual some of us were willing to attend any faire, while some of us were more interested in doing faires that were actually fun. As usual, I volunteered for everything...Ian taught me well. Some interesting notes form the meeting:
* No costume changes for the most part...I will need to get a chanmaille coif/mantle..but I wanted one anyway. The kern are being encouraged to get cloaks...Which would be nice in some of the colder renfaires.
* My Chainmaille was presented to me by Dwight for fitting, some adjustments and the additions of sleeves and skirting will give me a complete set!
* Tim had to inform everyone that the site acohol and smoking rules would now have to be enforced strictly as "the atmosphere of the renfaires are not the free-for-alls they once were....most of the faires are cleansing up their acts and we'll have to too" This is a change I have noticed in the faires and I think it's been the inclusion of a new generation of actors like myself who are nowhere near the original hippish forefather of the faires...While I appreciates the loss of what must be some of the original spirit of the faires..I cannot help but applaud this change.
*We are no longer the guild of St. Kennochs..We now go by the more Irish name of "Tuath Ui Niall'
The best part was doing the Ui Niall pledge at the end..It's completely in Gaelic and the sound reverbates off the walls like thunder...Other people on the Pub must've thought we were a militia or a cult or something.
This years annual mandatory administrative meeting was held a Fagan's Irish pub. I've never been to a pub before, but hey...How much trouble can 20 Irishmen and 4 honory Scotsmen get into?
Fagans is defitnly a place to see, Irish memobirallia hangs from every wall and two huge Irish flag, including the Irish harp...Which is Ireland's national symbol. All the decor is very nice and some is quite old, giving the place a very established feeling. All the menu items (with the exceptions of fish and chips :p ) are Irish and the poor waiter and lone bartender had to whip up about 20 orders of shepherds pie by themselves.
As for the meeting, it was generally decided that last year was a good year and we had the usual debate over which faires to attend. As usual some of us were willing to attend any faire, while some of us were more interested in doing faires that were actually fun. As usual, I volunteered for everything...Ian taught me well. Some interesting notes form the meeting:
* No costume changes for the most part...I will need to get a chanmaille coif/mantle..but I wanted one anyway. The kern are being encouraged to get cloaks...Which would be nice in some of the colder renfaires.
* My Chainmaille was presented to me by Dwight for fitting, some adjustments and the additions of sleeves and skirting will give me a complete set!
* Tim had to inform everyone that the site acohol and smoking rules would now have to be enforced strictly as "the atmosphere of the renfaires are not the free-for-alls they once were....most of the faires are cleansing up their acts and we'll have to too" This is a change I have noticed in the faires and I think it's been the inclusion of a new generation of actors like myself who are nowhere near the original hippish forefather of the faires...While I appreciates the loss of what must be some of the original spirit of the faires..I cannot help but applaud this change.
*We are no longer the guild of St. Kennochs..We now go by the more Irish name of "Tuath Ui Niall'
The best part was doing the Ui Niall pledge at the end..It's completely in Gaelic and the sound reverbates off the walls like thunder...Other people on the Pub must've thought we were a militia or a cult or something.
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