Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Medieval Computer Skills

I'm not the greatest computery person. No really, I'm not. I might not be the worst, actually I know I'm not the worst and certainly have some very basic and rudimentary skills; I did create my own web site from the ground up for example and sometimes even managed a podcast or two back in the day. The whole blog thing however, I missed the induction day for that one. Good news is though, I know where my short comings are (the evident ones at least!) and I'm fixing them. I intend of blogging a whole lot more now that I understand the purpose of it a bit more. There is other good news.

The All Things Medieval podcast is coming back.

The next episode is scheduled for January 2011 and every month there after as a minimum. I have sorted some things out in regards to making the job easier and will be again committing time to the show. It's been a long time but I am really looking forward to making a grand come back. I hope you'll join me. To accompany the return of the show I'll be setting up a few other things to go along with it, primarily networking stuff and either a new set of forums or at least a mended old forum after it's many woundings from hordes of spammers.

I look forward to a new year with you all and as always welcome suggestions, comments and greetings. Chat with you again soon!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010


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.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Anyone Still Waiting?


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.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Sir Justyn in the UK and the next Podcast

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!

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

You'd Believe Anything......

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.

Oh, and just ignore the title of the post O.K?

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Where is Sir Justyn? (Again...)

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!

Thanks for hanging in there folks.

Cheers,

Sir Justyn.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

ATM Episode #11

All Things Medieval Podcast Episode 11 2009.

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.

Dodgy Viking Swords http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/dec/27/archaeology-vikings-sword

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

and

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.

What did they eat?

Where did they Get it?

What would it have been like?

Was it nutritional and tasty?


The Market Place

Albion Swords

Get Dressed for Battle

Awl Leather


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