Hah. Conference Prep Fun.

I spent a lovely hour this afternoon preparing a joint presentation with a French colleague - about a garment find she had studied, and presented at the NESAT in Warsaw. Our plans include making a reconstruction of the thing, which is... a medieval underpant fragment. It's very exciting, and I am all looking forward to it, and today I saw close-up images of the seams and stitches and now I have itching fingers. It will have to wait until I have all the data, and a plan, though, so... deep breaths, and patience.

Braies, or breeches, or underpants, or however you want to call them are one of the bits that we know about, but by far not enough. There's mostly pictorial evidence, and a bit of written stuff that is not always really clear, and next to no surviving pieces at all, so anything that makes it to today in a recognisable way is like a double win in the lottery. Imagine my excitement when I first saw images of the piece! It's of course not complete, but there's plenty of it left to have a really good idea of the original looks.

There's some other balls up in the air - still trying to do some re-organising here, still working on the big thesis translation project (a little each day, in the hopes it will add up quicker than math says it will), some shop stuff planning for things, and research/reconstruction requests that need a little attention now and then, but are still in the evaluation and pre-planning phase, so nothing is firm and decided yet. It's a kind of limbo that is always exciting, but I have learned to not get too excited too early.

The calendar is also slowly starting to fill up with things; here, too, some are still in the early stage, but I am hopeful they will come through and I'll be out and about to some really wonderful events in 2026.