Weekly Twitter Round Up of The AethelflaedQuest (by sarah)
We are now about a week away from the Aethelflaed Festival in Gloucester to celebrate the 1100 year anniversary of Aethelflaed (actually its her death date but we are celebrating/remembering and learning about her life). A lot happened last week but a big chunk of it was in London so I don't think there are as many tweets as I was expecting! But on the other hand there have now been a couple of cases of other people using my hashtag which makes me soooooo happy 🙂
Meet Loki - who will be helping me with some of the leather and metallurgy workshop stuff during the @AethelflaedGlos festival in Gloucester - it is a rawhide and copper hammer Thor number 2 - I will be blogging about this little Bute later! #AethelflaedQuest #SalaricCraft pic.twitter.com/FsuZ4GHsVU
— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) May 26, 2018
Getting my treasure chest ready 4 The High Seas of Poetry 2mo at @watergloucester part of the Sea Shanty Festival with @GlosPoetryFest ⚓️ Also I hear the Vanquisher of Vikings herself may make an appearance to explain how to deal with the scourge of the sea! #AethelflaedQuest pic.twitter.com/KBo6arb2E7
— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) May 26, 2018
You know I've fallen down many info rabbit holes to do with my #aethelflaedquest ? well that includes a bit of music history and theory - here is a little write up on Anglo-Saxon Poetry and Music https://t.co/V7IbRVHK40
— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) May 26, 2018
V excited for this!!#AethelflaedQuest https://t.co/V5GfyLDnsk
— Waterstones Glos (@watergloucester) May 26, 2018
More Sea Shanty Festival pics 🙂 @fountainglos, family singing A Pirate A Pirate, my Motley Poetry Crew @watergloucester, and Queen Aethelflaed the Puppet The Vanquisher of Vikings explains about how to deal with the scourge of the seas! #Glooucester #AethelflaedQuest pic.twitter.com/Qn2CmcUAv2
— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) May 28, 2018
Pinting out bits in prep for History ShowOff at The BishopGates Institute tomorrow in London 🙂 Aethelflaed the Puppet is most excited! #AethelflaedQuest
— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) May 29, 2018
And are having a hearty breakfast before we need to mosey on down to the big smoke for @ScienceShowoff's HistoryShowOff at the Bishopsgate Institute! Come and find out tonight about some awesome women from history 🙂 tix are £9 I think! #AethelflaedQuest pic.twitter.com/mN6dvlIKGz
— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) May 30, 2018
We had adventures in Londinium which apparently is no longer the capital of Essex - but right now it is gaming time - Aethelflaed is building herself a series of thrones.- once she has mined enough iron... #AethelflaedQuest #Minecraft pic.twitter.com/7IMtQTTdUR
— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) May 31, 2018
Wombled leather scrapes ready to make things with the kids (I have card which can work as a non animal substitute for teaching the process/techniques) and borrowed goblets (not historically accurate but still fun 😉 ) #AethelflaedQuest pic.twitter.com/mwt0j0FhWX
— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) May 31, 2018
The weather and traffic were not kind on my travels today - a 3 hour journey took 7 plus but it was well worth it for the fun had at #Historyshowoff yesterday and retrieving bits for the Aethelflaed festival we'll be at in #Gloucester in June #AethelflaedQuest pic.twitter.com/NiFHsLWwln
— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) May 31, 2018
The Lady of Mercia explaining who the hell she is and why she keeps dropping out history at the @BishopsgateInst #historyshowoff part of the Women's History Special with @ScienceShowoff - photo by @steve_x pic.twitter.com/OkZWewnSmY
— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) June 1, 2018