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Hogmanay was a success, with Brian becoming Gentle, and Dougal submitting his intent for Boara during the proceedings with some not so subtile prompting. Faire planning is proceeding a pace, and soon we shall all be involved in the construction. The Queen Mary Scottish Festival is our next event on Feb. 18 & 19, important for us in that it is the last surviving event in the area we are involved in.

The change in providers for the bulletin board is not going as well as hoped and Lindsay and company are working on fixing the problems, so kindly use the Facebook group for timely communication in the mean time.

Check the Message Board early and often for news, and daily during the run. You can join it to monitor events and communicate with other members more easily. Remember to sign your posts and make sure you have identified your user name to help me know who is who and keep the spam out.
  Please spread the word to your regular clan correspondents you phone or email.

If you have any questions please email me, ColinChief@hotmail.com.

Yours aye, Steven

Notes From Tournaig

Hogmanay was a great success, with the place in better shape than we got it, neat, clean, and locked up before 1:00. 'Twas a grand time!

Hogmanay 12

Please email me notice of any problems on the site. What I don't see or know about dosen't get fixed.

The big batch of pictures is in PhotoBucket at 800x600, with larger available from me. 2011 pix there are mostly for site work. Do send me links to your batches to put into the links at the bottom of the pictures page, and let me know which shots should be on MacColin.com, and which should go away. It should be enough to interest and remind us, but not overburden. FAIRE11 needs to get trimmed down to size.

Latest Pictures need feedback, and some more pix, since for many parts I can't carry the camera. Most pictures are being posted at 600 x 800 now, which needs review and feedback. Tell me which pictures are not wanted.

Please give feedback about MacColin.com.

The MacColin Basic Guide has information you are required to know, and much of the basic information aggregated in the past 30+ years. You can also download Basic Guide in .pdf format.

The 'Clan App' covers more than the address for the Seannachie so one is needed for each member, including kids.
It covers contact information (we need to add more for this), legal, and medical information, including date of birth for each, which allows the chief to answer questions like "How many kids/minors/adults do you have?" from Faire, and updating for Pikemitsfa (under age is no dues, but insurance is required for all).

ID Project needs a clear, small 150x150 pixel picture of each face, kids included just like apps, that will read when printed by a b&w printer so we have a reference. We suffered from a a lack of such resulting in no new Who's Who this run of Faire. Sending approriate pictures with 16th & 21st century names directly to Odo cand help to remedy this problem. We also need some for members of note and tale, which can help out on our time line, so others can tie some loose ends together. The Marks Registry pdf is better for learning existing marks, and many need to register a mark. There were some unregisterd marks on goods which left them in the Chief's hands. And do remember, Unmarked goods are the Chief's goods.
You know how to do an address update, and this way we are a current as possible.
Timeline, and Warrants are at a standstill.

The Outline of Links of the sets of links will help with where to look and link to them.
In the Outline use the Find function (most browsers use ctl-F) and look for a related term, like "lyric" which will also find lyrics, and once you are in the area, follow the outline tree up. REF07 I 4 vii d 2 is the outline location, so click the address, and scroll to I (Scot) 4 (Social graces) vii (music) d (other) 2 (Lyrics) and start doing the old right-click open in other window on each one that looks likely. Some links are old (these are the most useful sites I have found in the past years, over 4000 links, and some die every month) or slow, or are limited traffic. Try surfing these links, there is more stuff related to our interests in these than you can read in a year. And if you find another good one, let me know, and it will be added for the rest of us to use.  

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