The Abbey Medieval Festival has been and gone for 2010 and now I can get onto other things including podcasting! If you have never been to this event and you live in Australia and have a love of the Middle Ages, you really need to get yourself to this event. It is the biggest and best event of it's kind in Australia regardless what you hear from other lesser shows. Of course Sir Justyn was present with his falconers, hounds, knights, archers, gonners, squires and ladies and will be again next year.
If you are still waiting and by the saints you have the patience of Mother Teresa if you are, there will be more podcasts forthcoming. I have not madce the podcast a priority for the last 12 months or more but I am keen to get back into recording and soon! In the meantime here is a pic of Dr Ian Mortimer and I in Cornwall at a presentation and lecture hosted by Katrina Wood from Kats Hats. Dr Mortimer is the author of The Perfect King and The Time Travellers Guide to Medieval England among other titles.
It has been a long time. Too long. When I set out to do this podcast it was my honest intention to put one out once every month and then eventually once a week. Epic fail. I have no excuse this time around either. I've just not dedicated time to doing the show. I feel so ashamed.....
I'd like to say that I'll make it up to you, loyal fans and listeners but that too would likely be an epic fail!
In saying that, there is another episode that is done and has been for a while. I just have to give it an edit and upload etc, etc. I expect to have this done in the next week or two. After that I need to knuckle down and work out a way to research, record, edit and post in a quick, convenient and most importantly, consistent manner. Something that I think will help speed up the process are more interviews. And do I have some plans for those!
In March, I'll be touring the UK and France doing some lectures and displays (more details to follow) and during the course of this grand emprise I'll be speaking with some really interesting folk. I'll be recording some of these conversations for your listening pleasure. I'll also be visiting the blog regularly with updates, pictures and other fun stuff. I'd love to hear from listeners who might be interested in meeting somewhere while I am visiting. Maybe we can share a pint or a cuppa!
That is, if you believed my last post. Clearly when I said I'd have another episode out soon, what I meant was I was too busy with work and that my wife who is carrying twins (I told you that right? Yeah of course I did...) needs some attention due to some difficulties she is facing, therefore meaning I'd not get another episode out soon, as prmoised.(again)
Hark! Faithful listener and be not despondent in my prolonged and unseeming absence I will return with another episode in the future.
A lot of listeners are clamouring for a new episode and I'm starting to get nervous. The restlessness has convinced me that I have strectched the friendship too far and I must get a new episode out at all costs! So, faithful listeners, that is what I have been doing. Expect it to be available very soon, devoid of hollow promises of it being more regular!
Find out exactlt what Sir Justyn has been up to in this, the latest episode. Movies, food and swords!
Winner of the DVD Sarge!
I need a new horse…poor old Kasper
Busy with shows again already. Movie stuff
Training again. Lots to catch up on! Missed Luke Binks Australian Knights School. Bob Charrons seminar.
Special thanks to Jim Mowatt from Historyzine.com
Get in touch with me here at ATM on the forums at www.sirjustyn.com or by email at podcast@sirjustyn.com and tell me what has been happening in your medieval world. Tell me you like the podcast. Tell how to improve it. Tell me what you want on the podcast. Tell me what you need to tell me.
Heralds Call News
Check out the new commercial for Free Credit Report.com. Fun! http://www.freecreditreportband.com/
The first SCA podcast. http://lionsroad.org/ Started last year and is a weekly podcast.
Rise Sir Terry Pratchett http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article5420707.ece
Luttrell Psalter DVD get one now! All the profits from the sales will go towards making the Luttrell Psalter Part II on the life of Sir Geoffrey Luttrell and his household. Dr David Mellor 'I have now viewed it and it "knocked my socks off"! I was expecting it to be good but not that good. It was poetic, elegiac, magical and yet true to its source. I was very moved'.
Galloping Into Theaters: Nicolas Cage will once again work with Gone in Sixty Seconds director Dominic Sena in Relativity Media's Season of the Witch. Story follows a fourteenth-century knight who must escort on horseback a girl suspected of being "the witch behind the Black Plague" to a distant monastery. The action-loving Sena was presumably hesitant until Cage convinced him that he "could put in some bitchin' horse chases." Also starring Ron Pearlman it is set for a 2010 release.
Ridley Scott to make Robin Hood.
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese has optioned the book The Last Duel as a future motion picture that he will produce and possibly direct. Early casting rumors[citation needed] claim that, even though the two men were in their early fifties at the time of the duel, Matt Damon (b. 1970) is being considered for the part of Jean de Carrouges, while Leonardo DiCaprio (b. 1974) is being considered to play against type as Jaques Le Gris, the alleged rapist.
Dantes Inferno on Xbox
Mediev Metal!!!
Events
Bedes World 17th May 10am-4:30pm medieval fair FREE! For more info visit www.bedesworld.co.uk
Galway Early Music Check out www.galwayearlymusic.com
23rd-24th May Back by popular demand. My Lords My Ladies Medieval Fayre in Blacktown NSW, Australia;10.00am-4.00pm Nurragingy Reserve, Knox Rd, Doonside
Escondido Renaissance Fair April 25th and 26th and the 2nd and 3rd of May. http://www.goldcoastfestivals.com/escondidoren/ereninfo.html
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Now I have question for you all Lords and Ladies. Do you like this segment of the show? Is it of any use to you and would you like to see it continued or replaced with something else? Perhaps its place is in the forums? I’d like to hear what you think. Email me at podcast@sirjustyn.com
Feature
Food in the Middle Ages
Books that I will reference during this feature are Maggies Black Medieval Cookbook, Fabulous Feasts by Madelaine Pelner Cosman, Cooking and Eating by Katie Stewart, Feast by Roy Strong, Charlegmanes Tablecloth by Nichola Fletcher and Food and Feast in Medieval England by Peter Hammond.
vEnglish War Crimes at Agincourt. French historians last year were using the anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt to accuse England's soldiers of acting like "war criminals''.
vDuelling in Qld "Queenslanders can now challenge one another to duels but face jail for leaving their children unsupervised."
vRenaissance Magazine Directory – the yellow pages for medieval fans.
vJon “The Vicar” Stallards book Butler of Droitwitch is a massive 400+ page tome. You can find it over at Lulu.com
vMedieval Baebes New DVD Brand new DVD available to pre order now.
vArizona Renaissance Festival 2009 February 7 - March 29 If you are a fan of the Medieval Babes you can see them perform live at this event. With over 265 000 people attending this event it is one of the biggest fayres in the world.
vBob Charron is coming to Australia http://www.fsmd.com.au/ and it might not be too late to book yourself a spot in one of his swordsmanship workshops. Hosted by the Fiore School of Medieval Defence the seminars are to be held in Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane. Victoria – 14th and 15th March 2009
Western Australia – 21st and 22nd March 2009
Queensland – 28th and 29th March 2009
vThe Jorvik viking festival is on Feb 18-22nd. Vikings from around the world meet to fight, trade and commemorate their shared heritage. http://www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/ Coppergate, York.
vThe film FAINTHEART (http://www.myspace.com/faintheartthemovie) is being released on January 27th for free in 150 cinemas around the UK. The DVD is available from Feb. 2nd.
Some other Lords and Ladies I’d like to say hi to and say thanks for all of your kindness are Wintermaide, The Vicar, Sara, Maid Marian, Medieval Mitch, Strange Attractor, Willies Wenches, Lady Maladicta and the Pirate Princess and many others I am sure to have forgotten!
