guess everybody is asleep...

jumps on the beds... bouncy bouncy bounce... does his best tigger interpretation...

waaaaakkkkkkeeeeeeeeeee uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuppppppppppp!!!!!!!!!!

My first name is Wim-Jaap it's a double name, like jean-piere, It's like William-Jack.

Herr doktor are you sure you didn't give the others a sedative?
I guess everyone is busy making stuff for the new season.
or they are resting, so they can stand the hardship of the season.

Starts jumping on the beds so hard they almost collapse.
BoUnCeY BoUnCeY BoUnCeEe!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJFyz73MRcg

i dwell on this forum, but also on lacewars forum and livinghistory forum.

The discusions found there are good.

This forum hasn't been super active... but had more activity every now and then.

I don't drink coffee, but that apfelstrudel sounds like a good plan!

Ach mein Gott!  

Wim-Jaap has fallen between the sheets, and now he too is in hibernation!  Bring in the coffee, no Wim-Jaap does not partake in the beverage. Alright then, much tea! Yes very strong tea to keep our intrepid Highlander from slumbering!
Keep him awake if he is not to be turned into a Rumpledforeskin! Yes tell him a story.........
Once upon a time there was a poor woodcutter who had a beautiful daughter. The woodcutter was very proud of her.

One day he boasted to the king, "My daughter can spin straw into gold."

If your daughter can do this," said the king, "bring her to me and I shall see."

So the woodcutter went home and told his daughter to wear her most lovely dress and come before the king.

Now to the good part.....

That night the little man came calling.

"What is my name?" he asked, jumping up and down.

"It's Robin," answered the queen.

"It is not!"

"It's Jack," said the queen.

"It is not!"

"Then Rumpledforeskin is your name."

At this the little fellow flew into a rage.

"Curses!", he shrieked, and stamped his feet so hard that he fell through the floor and disappeared forever.

So the moral of the story is: Do not jump up and down on the beds so hard they almost collapse, Wim-Jaap, or you might fall through the floor and be disappeared forever!

Grüß Gott!

So your bed bouncing is then responsible for this as well?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091224-north-pole-magnetic-russia-earth-core.html

Yes Wim-Jaap, all that bouncing on beds has made the earth quake, shook the pillars of Heaven and caused the  magnetic poles to shift from their places, but has failed to wake anyone here from their deep slumber.

What to do?  What to do?

Did you look at the Xmarks the Scot web site? There is an excellent sub forum on historical research on the kilt and related artefact.
There was not much on the '45 happening over on the Livinghistory.uk though. Perhaps there is a virus putting all 45 reenactors to sleep? You are not feeling tired are you?
I am interested in finding more information on the construction of the drawstring kilt, I wish to make one for myself. I read Mr. Newsomes excellent article on the drawstring kilt. But it left me with a lot more questions about it's construction, and would very much like to see some photographs of the artefacts mentioned in the article.  Pictures convey more information than do words.

Ah....all those broken beds, who shall clean all this mess?

Those hibernatorzzzzzzzzzz must also be somnambulists  (sleepwalkers)! There have been at least 150 of them walking through here while we are away. Or they are all dead and then they are all Geists. It is very odd, this forum is.

"the whole story of the drawstring kilt is based upon one painting, on which in my opinion is nothing to see that leads to a drawstring, but that's just my opinion."

This is the article where I read about the theory of the drawstring kilt.

http://albanach.org/articles.html

It is an interesting hypothesis nonetheless, and one which I would like to try on a small model scale. I would like to see photographs of this kilt in their collection. A quote form Matthew Newsomes article:

"In the collection of the Scottish Tartans Society is a belted plaid that was worn by Sir John Murray MacGregor of MacGregor on the occasion of King George IV's visit to Edinburgh in 1822.  This plaid has small loops sewn into the inside waistline, at the rate of one loop for every repeat of the tartan pattern. (Note: According to an article written by Jamie Scarlett, the loops were sewn to the inside.  According to conversation with Bob Martin, the loops are on the outside.) A cord was threaded through these loops, like a drawstring.  The loops are then slid together along the cord, the cord is tied at the waist, the front aprons of the plaid are arranged, and an outer belt is put on the secure the whole thing.  Viola!  An easy and simple way to don the belted plaid."

It may be a waste of my time but what, it is my own time after all.

It is like talking to the walls here Wim-Jaap, I am thinking to go over on the kilt forums historical sections. Try and not wreck anymore of the beds!