A minor spring-clean on the site and some sword news (or, “Come to SWASH 2011 [External Link]!”).
So, for those who’ve been in the last week or so, you may have noticed the look of the site changing slightly from day to day. I’ve made a couple of tweaks to how text displays on the page and have then gone back through all the individual site pages (not including the diary archive) to update them to the new standard. I’ve caught a few more spelling mistakes and edited some sentences that just didn’t make sense. If you see anything that didn’t get caught that’s an obvious mistake, please let me know. For that matter, please let me know if something isn’t displaying as well as it should!
The updating also includes (as promised) the report available on the LOWE page. Although I now know where in Shropshire Zachariah LOWE (mk I) is from – what is now the Telford area – I haven’t found any further information on the family, yet. The most likely lead, oddly enough, is a christening in Worcestershire.
As you’ve been reading / I’ve been banging on about for a few months now, 25 Ways To Kill A Werewolf (See the Alex Jones’ page) is my main pass-time at the moment. I’ve now written method 18 and I’m about to launch into method 19 – after walking Finn and reading through a story draft for Amber Fox [Link Defunct]. After that, 6 more werewolves to kill. Almost there! Woot!
(PS. I thoroughly recommend following through the Foxie link, as she has some interesting blog entries in general but she – like a lot of us – is not a big fan of David Cameron right now and has articulated it better than I ever will.)
Finally, the sword news. I shall be at SWASH 2011 [External Link] at Leeds Royal Armouries on the weekend February 19th & 20th. More precisely, I shall be stooging (being an instructor’s sidekick and whipping boy) for the “Small Sword dis-arms” session on the Saturday, the instructor being Simon McGrory from the Sheffield SSS [External Link]. Entrance to the sessions and talks at SWASH is charged but members of the public will actually be able to observe the training sessions. If you’re at all interested in taking up fencing, sport or historical, or any other western martial art for that matter, it’s well worth a look.