[Artemisia] help

[L.J. Richards]

Ooooooooh, Your Grace, the story I have to tell about such a gambeson!  A 
good gentle once known as Dane Halfhand [a/k/a now Sir Daniel] did once upon 
a time take his lady and ladyfriend (i.e., me) to an event of many moons 
ago.  We crashed at another good lady's house.  Whilst he was unpacking his 
armour bag for 'something' [only the Green Man knows now] there were 3 
ladies who looked at one another and said - 'what is that unholy smell?'. 
For two of us knew it 'twas not the lovely gentle's home wherein we were 
staying.  Lord Dane looked up from where he was rummaging and said, 'What?'. 
And 3 ladies pointed fingers at said door wherein lived the washer 
contraption and said, 'go thither and clean that _thing_!  See you in the 
morning."  "But it's only been in there 3 days, ummm, guess it's more like 3 
weeks....  Well, uh, yeah right - the washer contraption.... right."  And we 
did hiegh ourselves off to bed and left the poor man to his own devices.

HE Bronwen
PS:  And one more week and you wouldn't be whistling it to come to you, you 
would be running for dear life the opposite direction. (ha)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allen Hall" <earlalan at srv.net>
To: "Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list" <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] help


> Victoria,
>
> I****>
> Sir Daniel, who is formally of Sentinals Keep (and I think a lurker on 
> this
> list) had a gambeson made of a moving blanket.  It worked out well.
>
> As a matter of fact, I've seen moving blanket gambesons that were so well
> used, and so seldom washed, that once you took it off, you only had to
> whistle to it, and it would follow you to the car to be packed......
>
> It actually became a biological weapon all by itself, rendering your 
> worthy
> opponent stunned if you choose carefully to have the wind at your back.
> However, such a gambeson was something of an obstacle to approaching the
> fair, non-fighting lasses!
>
> Alan