Thursday, October 18, 2007
Alfadans day 0 - Emergency scroll-making
Today was given over to baking... and other things.
The plan today was to get everything done so that I could relax a bit tomorrow before the event, but I haven't got anywhere near it. I started pretty well, having made most of the pastry I needed last night I could start baking immediately. Unfortunately it had cooled sufficiently well overnight that I had one or two problems rolling it out until I kneaded it a bit more to get the fat warmed up. Never mind, I still got about four dozen snack-sized meat and vegetable pasties done by lunchtime and a pair of apple and berry pies done before I collected Paul and Catriona from the airport and took them up to Martha's for dinner.
I knew already that they were planning to hold court at the event but now I got the details. We have two AoAs to hand out, but the actual scrolls have got caught in the UK postal strike so they're not here. One of the gentles in question won't be at the event so that's not too much of a problem, but I volunteered to do a 'promissory note' which could be handed over in court as a stopgap until the actual scroll arrives sometime next week.
As P&C had been up since 3am we didn't carry on late at Martha's, so I came home and wrote the note. It's a quick and simple thing illuminated in ink rather than gouache as I don't have time to do anything more complicated. All the same I'm quite pleased with the outcome. I'll post scroll pictures after the weekend when I get all of the event photos online. Assuming I get any decent photos, that is.
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The plan today was to get everything done so that I could relax a bit tomorrow before the event, but I haven't got anywhere near it. I started pretty well, having made most of the pastry I needed last night I could start baking immediately. Unfortunately it had cooled sufficiently well overnight that I had one or two problems rolling it out until I kneaded it a bit more to get the fat warmed up. Never mind, I still got about four dozen snack-sized meat and vegetable pasties done by lunchtime and a pair of apple and berry pies done before I collected Paul and Catriona from the airport and took them up to Martha's for dinner.
I knew already that they were planning to hold court at the event but now I got the details. We have two AoAs to hand out, but the actual scrolls have got caught in the UK postal strike so they're not here. One of the gentles in question won't be at the event so that's not too much of a problem, but I volunteered to do a 'promissory note' which could be handed over in court as a stopgap until the actual scroll arrives sometime next week.
As P&C had been up since 3am we didn't carry on late at Martha's, so I came home and wrote the note. It's a quick and simple thing illuminated in ink rather than gouache as I don't have time to do anything more complicated. All the same I'm quite pleased with the outcome. I'll post scroll pictures after the weekend when I get all of the event photos online. Assuming I get any decent photos, that is.
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