Yay! Visiting Scarby for the first time!

[Merlin the Elder]

Barbarian Queen! We saw you at the Cat & Fiddle Saturday, and I would have come up and introduced us to you and your companion had we not been in the middle of a wine-tasting. I tried to catch your eye to acknowledge you without interrupting the tasting...I think your S.O. noticed.

Your garb seemed fine to my wife Nimue and me. Hopefully, if you're back Sunday and/or Monday, we can meet. Hope you enjoyed your first day at Scarby!

[Merlin]

Me and the youngest food eater have a room at the Comfort Suites... want to rock the last 2 days !

[Otwell Throckmorton]

Barbarian Queen - I saw you at The Cat and the Fiddle as well!  Also wanted to come say hi, but I too had my hands tied due to the wine tasting... Maybe today if you are still around!

[Lady Kett]

Barbarian Queen! We saw you at the Cat & Fiddle Saturday, and I would have come up and introduced us to you and your companion had we not been in the middle of a wine-tasting. I tried to catch your eye to acknowledge you without interrupting the tasting...I think your S.O. noticed.

Your garb seemed fine to my wife Nimue and me. Hopefully, if you're back Sunday and/or Monday, we can meet. Hope you enjoyed your first day at Scarby!

Ditto. Hope to hook up and actually meet you sat or sun!

[DonaCatalina]

Barbarian Queen - I saw you at The Cat and the Fiddle as well!  Also wanted to come say hi, but I too had my hands tied due to the wine tasting... Maybe today if you are still around!

Same here, I hope that you can visit Monday. Come down early and have breakfast with us!

[Merlin the Elder]

What time is breakfast, DC?

Had another lovely day today, but wore out a little sooner. We'll be there for tailgate on Monday, but we have to figure out how to hold out for the whole day...because of the heat.  Because of the distance issue, we don't get to spend as much time as we would like at Scarby. But this year we were there for opening day, opening cannon, and if we can hold out, we'd like to be there for closing day, closing cannon.

This has been a most glorious and memorable season for Nimue and me. We got to share our renewal with a lot of folks here, we got to share in Lady Kett and Sidekick's renewal, we made new friendships, and renewed old. We got to see Fireflicker this weekend! Fireflicker is the up-and-coming star of the faire circuit, in my humble opinion.

Oscar speech: I'd like to thank all who made this season special, Coy, Danielle, Richard, Shannon, Jana, Shadow, Lys, Doug (I think I've run out of the names I actually know), and all of the rest of the cast and crew of Scarborough.

I'd like to offer an extra special thanks to Bob & Melissa, Tammy and Jon, Sheila & Brett, Lance & Pam, Wes & Caroline...you don't realize the difference you have made in our enjoyment of faire...you're what makes it worth our while.

[DonaCatalina]

7:30 as usual.
But 4 dozen mini pigs will probably last until nearly 9:00am.

For us, it is many of the people, like you Merlin, that we have come to know and love that add another dimension to our enjoyment of faire. The people who don't get to experience faire through this dynamic don't realize what they're missing. Sharing love and laughter becomes almost like food or air. Once you've truly discovered it, you never want to give it up.

So I will add a special thanks to Merlin, Nimue, Lady Kett, Sidekick, Sqirl, Blushing, Archer, Sheila, Caroline, Pam, Isabelle, Matt, Matthew, Lys, Bill, Novie, Jeremy, Chris, Patrick, Robert, Jason, Susan, Richard, Janna, Frank, Bishop, Erin, Jessica, Allen, Ron, Jarie, Scott, Guillermo, Art, Ted, Holly, Peter and so many others that I can't recall your names this early in the morning. But you know who you all are. Bless you all for being yourselves.

[BarbarianQueen]

Your garb seemed fine to my wife Nimue and me....

Thanks!

[Merlin the Elder]

That must have been right after we saw you at the Cat & Fiddle!

I wouldn't presume to know what prompted the ejection, whether it was management as a preemptive strike, or if they had received complaints from patrons. I think it was Lys that voiced a concern that there could be some issues based on her past experiences around the faire.  I saw a number of other outfits this weekend that I thought considerably more evocative than yours. No clue as to whether or not any issue was made of them.  There have been photos posted on this board that have been removed due to complaints by more conservative members, that I didn't think showed any more than I see at any given show at faire. Such is life, I suppose.

Sad to say, you have to chalk it up to the fact that this country has not yet accepted the human body as a normal part of life...yeah, go figure. In general, the country is extraordinarily conservative on that issue. Remember the "wardrobe malfunction" that caused all the stink a few years ago?  It caused nearly as much of a stir as 9/11.  We all have different opinions about things. It doesn't make one or the other right or wrong, necessarily, only different.

Management is charged with protecting the assets of the faire, and it may not always be fair, right, or even what they want to do. I'm so sorry your excitement for coming for the first time was taken away.

[Lady Kett]

Well, sorry we didn't get to meet, Barbarian Queen. Ugh about Saturday! We will try to finally meet you at TRF this fall. I thought you looked lovely and I wish I had your figure!

Mean people suck. Karma will get them eventually. At least that's my motto in life.

[BarbarianQueen]

Merlin, you are correct on all counts. Scarborough is a private business and property, and I bear them no grudge for running it as they see fit. The General manager said it perfectly, standing outside the park amidst a crowd of folk coming and going at the entrance -
"the church-going folk of our faire don't want to see you in it"

Message received.

I certainly was asked to pose for a lot of photos with said folks! From little tykes who wanted to see my mask, to kids who wanted to see my Damascus dagger, to ladies who wanted to know, "is that real fur?!", to grinning old men who asked, " Can I touch your fur?!" (umm, no!).
They all seemed happy to meet us and to talk and we were happy to meet them.

[Merlin the Elder]

Someone swore that they saw you--in barbarian garb--again on Monday!

[BarbarianQueen]

Someone swore that they saw you--in barbarian garb--again on Monday!

Yes, we were there!  

To be honest, after the debacle on Saturday, I was all for packing it in an heading to the beach for the rest of the holiday. However, my D/H reminded me that we had paid for the four nights of our hotel in advance (non-refundable), and the General manager who asked us to leave the park was not of a mindset to refund the second day of our weekend pass.
Cooler heads prevailed, and after sleeping on it we decided to try again.  I'm glad we did, as we still enjoyed ourselves, and met and interacted with many more nice folks.

Odd thing, though.  On our arrival at opening Sunday, we were asked by no less than four fair employees in the first 15 minutes if they could take our photo. I couldn't help but think that this was some sort of tactic on behalf of the management, though to what purpose I can't imagine.

[Merlin]

Confused?


Mean people suck.

Was it too much boobage or too much booty showing?
I didn't think there was too much of either.

[Anna Iram]

Barbarian Queen, mayhaps it was the pub owners who requested you be escorted out as their customers were too intoxicated by your beauty to have need of their wares. There! Much nicer scenario than the churchgoer thing.

In seriousness, this happened at my homefaire a few years back. A chainmaille wearing friend who took pains to be sure nothing was indecent was still asked to leave. I never did hear a reasonable why. I believe it was because they had a rule of how much skin could be exposed and she was on the other side of the line. Like you, she never acted in any way other than a lady.  I guess when you have a business or have constructed some group, you have to set guidelines and adhere to them lest the next person try to stretch the rules a bit further. Some people make a habit of rule stretching just to see if they can.

Not saying this is your case. Anyway. I'm glad you had the chance to visit Scarby. Glad you gave it another chance. It's a good faire.