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Giocco Stretto (close-in fighting) from Manciolino.

 Ildhafn Council Meeting Minutes August 2011 

In Attendance: Angela Wells (Seneschal), Patrick Bowman (Herald), David Robb (Webminister), Nicola Halliday (Marshall), Katherine Davies

Continuing with Manciolino's first Assalto, and starting his plays from Gioco Stretto.

In the Assalto, we added the approach (the first bit):

Sewing this afternoon was fairly quiet, with only myself attending. Having spent a half hour longer than anticipated in the queue at Spotlight, I was somewhat late. As this is a regular occurence for most people, it seems likely that the start time for sewing will shift from 1pm to 2pm, to enable William & Catalina to have a bit more time on Sunday mornings.

William, Caterine, Nadia and Katherina woke up our legs with Anello and Amoroso (including the new ending for Amoroso), before launching into an evening of Spagnolette. The first two are old favourites, the last is new to us.

Continued to practice Manciolino's first assalto. 

I've started to dig into the meaning of some of the technical vocabulary on my website (https://sites.google.com/site/nososeet/home/fencing/philology).

On Saturday the 13th of August Catherine, William and Katherina performed at the Winter Warm-up, an annual dancing event run by the Ruritanian Society and the Danish Club.

We danced Spagnoletta Nuova for three, then William and Katherina danced Pavaniglia. The performance went well, and both dancing and costumes got many appreciative comments.

These are the contact details for the fabric shop in Otahuhu that has lots of cheap linen ($3-6 a metre) as well as cottons and other random stuff. It pays to phone first and check if he's open, as he's been pretty sporadic this year.

Continued with Manciolino's first Assalto.  Managed to sandwich the first part of the exchange between two embellishments.

I have no idea what everyone else achieved at sewing Sunday, though all seemed very industrious. I, however, set my new ruff! That is, I spent several hours with hair curlers, setting my upside-down ruff into even figure-eights. It's now wearable again, though it will look better once I've flipped it, and spent an hour or so touching up the top, and making sure the pleats are as even as possible, and nicely shaped. (For those who have not seen it, this ruff is somewhat wider than my shoulders, and made of a strip of linen about seven metres long).