Thanks to my comrade in arms Alianore at Edward the Second Blogspot for the new blog award: another shiny to decorate the sidebar with YAY! By all accounts I have to list 5 of my obsessions. Ummmm....
1. Hugh le Despenser (to give him his proper full name)
2. People, places and events to do with Hugh le Despenser
3. Anything medieval in general - both in books and in the here and now (castles, abbeys etc) 4. Watching medieval re-enactments, especially jousting and molesting the knights lol!
5. Richard Armitage (although Jonathan Rhys Meyers is becoming a contender for the crown)! This is only because I think Richard Armitage would make a great Despenser in a film! JRM has my vote for Damory though ;-)
Actually I have plenty more than 5 and the next few would be to do with the outdoors and wildlife. Yep, I'm pretty obsessive when something interests me!
And now I have to name some other worthy recipients of this award - which is getting difficult as many of my would-be nominees have been mentioned already by other awardees (is that a word?). Anyway, here goes, and apologies if I'm doubling up (just think of yourself as doubly brilliant!):
Susan Higginbotham at Medieval Woman: Blogging with Historical Fiction Writer Susan Higginbotham
Su at Su Writes Stuff
Daniel Myers at Medieval Cookery
Ceirseach at Mony Wylsum Way
Melisende at Women of History
7 comments:
Richard Armitage and Jonathan RM, yay! Love the thought of Jonathan as Roger Damory. (No wonder Ed fell for him big time! :)
Congrats.
I know that whoever of the gang (Alianore, Susan, you, Anerje, Carla) I give the award, it will spread to the rest. Makes picking blogs a bit easier. ;)
I sorta can understand the Richard Armitage obsession. Have to check out that other guy.
Thanks Lady D for the mention. Yes I get the RA obsession totally (did you watch the statr of series 3 of RH?)not so keen on JRM I'm more into Aidan Turner (Mitchell from Being Human and soon to play - I have to take a big breath for this - Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Desperate Romantics, phew, managed it!)Here's a peek (in full DGR gear) if you don't know him :-)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/beinghuman/2009/03/aidan_turner_answers_your_ques.html
Alianore: Oh yes, both Ed and I have good taste lol!
Gabriele: 'The gang' - I like that lol! I thought that you were thinking that way with awards. I do similar.
Yes, you must check out JRM - look up 'The Tudors' on You Tube.
Su H: Watch the start of RH3? Oh yes - I even switched off all of my phones so no-one would disturb me and my drooling! Mind you, GOG could really do with a good bath! Oh, and I think Aidan Turner's fantastic too! Loved 'Being Human' - so glad there is a second series! Actually, I have Aidan Turner as another Despenser stand in! I didn't know about Desperate Romantics though - I shall look forward to that. I can totally see Aidan as DGR!
Thanks, Lady D! I need to get my act in gear and give the award now!
Congratulations!
Aw, thank you, that's rather touching - particularly given I've not posted in, what, a month? Real Life did its ambushy thing and I decided to take some time off from thinking mediaeval - but I'm back now! I has a book of petitions and letters in Anglo-Norman I found in the bowels of the library! What can I do but translate random letters?
... oh help, does this mean I have to do a blog post that actually talks about me?
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