| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| Helen M |
finally a better picture of my regency stuff
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| Chez |
Is that Lady Harriet Morgan, perchance? | ||||
| Helen M |
 it is indeed,
she went out to play at the kymin today |
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| Bebo |
Hope you've got big pants on underneath. | ||||
| Chez |
I don't think that you were allowed any pants at all, were you? And you had to damp your petticoats so they stuck to your legs. | ||||
| sally_in_wales |
I like the spencer, I've got to make one of those, got the fabric and everything, just need a spare day... | ||||
| sean |
Isn't that just BBC classic serials (all the damping so that things stick to people, usually Colin Firth)? | ||||
| Chez |
I'd be prepared to be damped if it would stick me to him. | ||||
| Bebo |
Dunno about the damping down, but drawers weren't invented until 1806 (isn't google wonderful). That's just shocking 
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| Helen M |
and draughty |
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| Chez |
Actually, mostly urban myth: clicky |
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| Frewen Feltmaker |
You are such a clever seamstress 
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| Helen M |
thank you 
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| catbaffler |
That looks wonderful! | ||||
| Helen M |
Harriet never cheats at cards! |
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| Bebo |
I bet Helen M does though
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| Helen M |
hell yeah 
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| Bebo |
What card games were popular in the regency period? | ||||
| lottie |
Faro? | ||||
| Chez |
While we are at it, what's Ducks and Geese? | ||||
| Bebo |
I thought that was a place in Portugal not a card game. Shows how much I know. 
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| lottie |
Strictly Kids stuff. Peg board not cards.[ducks n geese] | ||||
| vegplot |
Wrong sentence order surely. |
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| Helen M |
do you mean fox and geese? |
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| lottie |
Yes It's getting worse I shall soon be totally ga ga.
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| Helen M |
played on a solitare board. one fow and many geese. the idea is to trap the fox before it gobbles the geese. I have a set. should I bring it to the winter meets and teach you all? | ||||
| Chez |
Yes please. It will go with the community singing that seems to be being planned
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| vegplot |
We've got a set but no idea how to play it. |
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| Helen M |
then I shall show you x |
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| Bodrighy |
You can also play fox & geese on a chess board. same idea, 1 fox 8 geese. Fox has to get past the geese and can move diagonally backwards and forwards, geese can move diagonally but only forward. Idea is to trap the fox on the last line of the board. Not as easy as it sounds. 1 move each in turn.
Card games for regency period include Faro, Whist, Jeu d'enfer, vingt-et-un, piquet, or loo. Probably others as well. Pete |