(Complete) Toxophilus - lt

CliveCatterall · Post by **CliveCatterall** » March 12th, 2022, 2:17 pm

Book 1 - Part 2 uploaded.
It's been too windy for the last couple of days to practice much, so I had plenty of time for recording! (You can't tell how well you're doing if the wind randomly blows the arrows around

so it's no fun)

Clive

justjennifer · Post by **justjennifer** » March 14th, 2022, 8:31 am

Section 2 is PL OK!

CliveCatterall · Post by **CliveCatterall** » April 11th, 2022, 5:30 am

Still here. Just checking in

Clive

CliveCatterall · Post by **CliveCatterall** » May 1st, 2022, 1:31 pm

Book 1 Part 3 is uploaded and ready for PL.

Why shooting is so much better than gambling.

Can't argue with that.

Clive

justjennifer · Post by **justjennifer** » May 2nd, 2022, 8:34 am

CliveCatterall wrote: ↑May 1st, 2022, 1:31 pm Why shooting is so much better than gambling.

Part 3 is PL OK!

CliveCatterall · Post by **CliveCatterall** » June 8th, 2022, 3:30 pm

Checking in. Still here.
Clive

CliveCatterall · Post by **CliveCatterall** » June 25th, 2022, 3:39 am

Book 1 Part 4 is uploaded and ready for PLing.

Why Archery is so great in warfare and sooo much better than guns and artillery. A particular fun aside Ashcham mentions is that it was sometimes more dangerous to stand beside a gun as it fired instead of having it fire towards you (presumably, like the guns used at the siege of Constantinople 90 years earlier, metal casting methods were still so poor that the guns were prone to exploding!). He said that if it was being aimed at you could probably run away in the time it took to fire anyway (unless you happen to be a castle or a small town).

History is so great.
Clive

justjennifer · Post by **justjennifer** » June 28th, 2022, 9:40 am

CliveCatterall wrote: ↑June 25th, 2022, 3:39 am History is so great.

Part 4 is PL OK!

CliveCatterall · Post by **CliveCatterall** » July 22nd, 2022, 2:19 pm

Still here. Checking in.

Clive

CliveCatterall · Post by **CliveCatterall** » August 17th, 2022, 2:07 pm

Book 1 Part 5 is uploaded and ready for PL

I lost over three weeks to COVID

Getting back to normal.

Clive

Some absolutely golden bits in this part. Ascham suggests that before England took it over, Wales was uninhabited, wild and useless wilderness. And that Scotland is plainly foolish not to beg England to take it over and give it the glorious benefit of being ruled by the benevolent king Henry 8th (who was not a narcissistic tyrant at all).

Curiously enough during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign I recall some of the same sentiments being repeated 470 years later (that Scotland gained so much more from the union than England)

justjennifer · Post by **justjennifer** » August 19th, 2022, 12:19 pm

Glad to hear you're feeling better!

Part 5 sounds great. Only one edit - there are 10 seconds of silence at the end; if you can snip that down and let me know, I'll pop back in and mark it OK.

CliveCatterall · Post by **CliveCatterall** » September 1st, 2022, 5:37 am

I've trimmed the silence to 5 seconds and uploaded the modified file. I haven't posted a longer file for some time, and it used to be 10 seconds silence for files over 30 mins!

Clive

CliveCatterall · Post by **CliveCatterall** » September 2nd, 2022, 2:02 pm

Book 1 Part 6 is uploaded and ready for PL.

It's the Hereford County Championship on Sunday. Thunder and lightning and rain are forecast. It will take quite a few hours to shoot all 12 dozen arrows (especially as we have to help the the longbow archers look for their lost arrows - they miss a lot) . I may get wet

Hopefully I won't come last...

Clive

CliveCatterall · Post by **CliveCatterall** » October 27th, 2022, 2:50 pm

I'm still here

Just checking in

Clive

CliveCatterall · Post by **CliveCatterall** » November 4th, 2022, 3:49 pm

Book 2 Part 1 uploaded and ready for PL