SCORE!

[apollinav]

Rummaging around in my sewing room (I'm not pushing myself, I swear, just going crazy from being bed-bound) I found these.  At the time I had bought them as a gift for hubby (we're weird like that - historical reenactors) I never got around to giving.  But now I look at these with new eyes, and 'Cor blimey!'  what a treasure-trove they are!  Just perfect if you're looking for that word, phrase, or brew for the fic you're writing.  48 cards total, and Amazon is selling them used starting at $5.60. 

Comments

[miamadwyn.livejournal.com]

Bless you, and bless the horse you rode in on!

I just ordered both sets of cards. Hopefully they will be of use to me!

[apollinav.livejournal.com]

And the horse! Wow, and I can ride a pretty high horse on occasion. I don't have a use for them right now, but I know the next time I'm tapping my foot and growling they'll come in handy.

Example: THEREBINTUS
Turpentine. A sort of clear resinous gum, distilling out of the fir tree and others. It is of two sorts, vulgar or common, or Venetian; the latter is esteemed the best, being clear, pellucid and white, and of a glass colour, used as a balsam to cuts and other green wounds, and taken inwardly as diuretick, occasioning the urine to smell like violets. Boiled in water, it becomes solid, and being so prepared, is made into pills and given in venereal cases. The oil is used to consolidate wounds, to discuss tumorours, and strengthen nerves. - Thomas Dyche's New General English Dictionary, 1740

[miamadwyn.livejournal.com]

This is most likely going to come in handy with my ofic. Yay! Yay! Yay!

[apollinav.livejournal.com]

Sweet! I'm so glad.

[tudorpot.livejournal.com]

That sounds so cool- would be great for my current project- argh the book budget has been blown already.

[apollinav.livejournal.com]

Library? There've got to be books and whatnot on Elizabethan and 18th Century words and phrases. Possibly history of medicine stuff.

[tudorpot.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I had to go and do an on-call nursing visit, on the way I dropped a book back and asked, our library system has one of his books- Forgotten English. So it's coming. I'm very keen to get the potions info. My project for Severus Big Bang is to create the book Advanced Potions Making- a big job as the content all has to be written. Sources are needed desperately.

[apollinav.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! That's awesome.

Hey where is the Severus Big Bang page? Is that even up yet?

[tudorpot.livejournal.com]

http://community.livejournal.com/severusbigbang/profile

It's huge- so many elements to pull together.

[apollinav.livejournal.com]

Oh excellent, than you. I am so totally excited about it.

[mollyssister.livejournal.com]

You are the coolest thing since sliced bread!

[apollinav.livejournal.com]

Wow! Sliced bread is really way cool too. Thanks!

[benevolntgoddes.livejournal.com]

ooooooooo aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh
I have set these on my amazon cart, awaiting only one more book to purchase - I have yet to decide what that'll be just yet.

[apollinav.livejournal.com]

I know, they're all sorts of 'ooh shiny.'

I love Amazon books because I find things I'd never be able to get at a big box bookseller like Barnes and Noble. (not that I don't love them too, but they don't have anything unique on their shelves) It's the best for my costuming books.

[droxy.livejournal.com]

back-to-bed!

But you can read..