International Talk Like A Pirate Day 2015
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Ohhhh dear, ROFL! How could I have missed that? I think my brain just filtered it out (the first time I saw it) for some reason 
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International Talk Like A Pirate Day 2015
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So appropriate, Leena! So what's your pirate name? You can tell us, don't be shy
International Talk Like A Pirate Day 2015
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Seamus Gabardini is one of the best pirates ... erm Captain's ...I have ever encountered in SL. He lived the role accompanied by his trusty German Shepherd & Parrot (and if memory serves me correctly there was a mule named Norma? as well).
I like to think he's still sailing the seas & enjoying life's many adventures.
Fair winds Captain!
International Talk Like A Pirate Day 2015
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Too funny! I'm not feeling so bad about being "Dullblade" now
International Talk Like A Pirate Day 2015
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LOL - I'm guessing that whatever name you use the result won't be very complimentary - funny though 
International Talk Like A Pirate Day 2015
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Avast, Ye Mateys!
In honour of International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19 2015), I thought it would be fun to share stories, photos etc. of our pirate related adventures both past and present.
I'll be digging through my photo archives for some additions and may even pose for a few new glamour shots
You can also check out The Pirate Name Generator
As fate would have it, mine's Cap'n Jasmine Dullblade, not too flattering but I'm guessing it could be a lot worse!
Have fun!
updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 06 Jan 2017 02:21:59AM
Queen Elizabeth II becomes longest-reigning UK monarch
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Woohoo!! And we were there! ... well not there, there, but here ... you know what I mean
17th Century and WWII Artifacts Revealed in Poland's River Vistula Due to Drought
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Thanks, Leena.
Though the drought is not a good sign it is interesting to see everything that is being revealed.
Childbirth in Medieval and Tudor Times
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Childbirth is openly discussed in today's society. Images of pregnant women appear in magazines and women giving birth can be seen on television and in movies. Yet during the medieval period, childbirth was deemed a private affair. Giving birth in the middle ages was a dangerous time for women and childbirth did not discriminate. Young mothers, older mothers, poor or rich mothers, all could die not only in childbirth but also due to complications afterwards. Sadly, more than one in three women died during their child-bearing years.
Initially, some women would not have even known they were pregnant until they felt the first movement of their baby inside of them at around five months. This was known as the "quickening". It seems amazing to us that a woman would not know that she was pregnant for several months, but there were no reliable tests for pregnancy during the Tudor period. A woman may have turned to a doctor to see if she was pregnant, but the tests were far from reliable. One pregnancy test during the Tudor period was to examine the colour of the urine and if it was a pale yellow to white colour with a cloudy surface the woman may have been pregnant. Other tests involved examining a needle left in the woman's urine to see if it rusted, or seeing what happened when wine was mixed with the woman's urine. Also a women's lack of regular menstruation could be related to several factors including illness, breast-feeding, excessive fasting or even a poor diet.
There was no way of monitoring the baby's heart rate or to take blood pressures, and thus women replied heavily upon other experienced women to support and help them. Childbirth was predominantly women's business and physicians and doctors only attended under the most extreme circumstances, such as in Queen Jane Seymour's case when she was giving birth to the future king and had problems. More commonly if a woman had the funds or contacts she would have sought advice and support from a midwife, a woman who had a great deal of experience and knowledge in delivering babies.
There are very few accounts of what giving birth was like for the common, every-day Tudor woman, as not only was it a private affair but women generally did not write down or record their lives. However, if a queen gave birth, well that was a public matter as she could be giving birth to the next heir. Therefore we can turn to the pregnancies and births of royal women to see what giving birth might have been like for some women during the Tudor period.
Women of noble birth, such as the queen or of higher classes, would close themselves off from the world for a period before they gave birth. This was commonly known as 'lying in' or 'taking her chamber'. Before this, an elaborate service was held where the Church would ask God for his blessing for the birth. After the service and the prayers from the clergy, the queen went into her private rooms. The common woman may have gone to church or sought the blessing from the Priest before she too removed herself from the public eye for her own lying in. Other women, sadly those of the much lower class, may have had to work right up until they went into labour as there was no one to cover their daily responsibilities.
updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 05 Jan 2017 06:45:54PM
Buckingham Update
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Congratulations on this accomplishment!!
Very much looking forward to checking it all out