One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

It's been cold here in Akornebir! Even in near-freezing temperatures, our group of rapier fighters continues to meet and find ways to keep warm. I've been working a lot on footwork, following the advice of the more senior fighters. Speaking of which, it's definitely been a month of backward steps in other areas. The last month has been a quiet one for my Arts and Sciences projects, with a couple of failed attempts having hindered some small amount of progress. A guitar string snapped, which although is pretty easy to replace in theory, it actually ended up leading me on a wild goose chase looking for the right type of strings, the best way to attach, and getting assistance in doing it all. The whole set of strings were several years old, so we ended up just replacing all of them and then spent several days tuning the guitar over and over again. In addition to this particular setback, there was some disappointment with the copy of the Ormulum book I acquired through interlibrary loan, as it was not a translation, only the original text from the 12th century which is unreadable for us normal folk. The search for that particular book continues. The next month though has lots of projects and activities in the works: a fabric scurry, a February feast, and getting ready to enter a research paper at Kingdom Arts and Sciences in March.