Bridgerton
Apr. 24th, 2022 03:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichWell, I've binge-watched season one and two, and now instead of waiting forever for season three, I just bought the danged third book in the story arc. I have to laugh at myself - I have avoided watching any of the episodes of the Vikings on TV because the liberties the series takes with history and clothing drives me mad. And I have never re-watched The Movie Which Shall Not Be Mentioned since I am still haunted all these years later by memories of Mel Gibson's pastel blue "woad". And yet I dove into Bridgerton. And I am a Regency Romance reader.
I think I know why. It is quite different from actual history, so sufficiently enough to make it seem set in a different world rather than our earth. So a black Queen (and my gawd, in the show the actress is amazing!) and the half-observed rules of Society just make it "not Regency". Something like reading a steampunk novel. It is easy to suspend disbelief.
We spent three hours yesterday running from store to store looking at recliners. There are far too many of them you have to plug into a power outlet. Ugh. And way too many upholstered with fake leather. The last thing a person wants is to be sitting in a padded chair which is too hot three quarters of the year. So the search will continue. Father's Day is six weeks away so we're using that as a time-gauge as there will be sales coming up. Bossman says there is no hurry - the chair is perfectly comfortable when it is in the reclining position so he can baby it along until we find a good replacement.
We also visited a "mobility store" and I shall be renting an electric scooter to use during the SCA event held over Memorial Day weekend. With Bossman now an archer, I prefer to set up our sunshade near the archery range but that means that I am essentially stranded there since ranges are normally a long distance from the central part of an event. And I worry about being able to walk to the area where court would be held. This may solve that problem. This also motivates me to work on strengthening myself as I am not emotionally ready to resign myself to a scooter at SCA events and whenever I leave the house.
I think I know why. It is quite different from actual history, so sufficiently enough to make it seem set in a different world rather than our earth. So a black Queen (and my gawd, in the show the actress is amazing!) and the half-observed rules of Society just make it "not Regency". Something like reading a steampunk novel. It is easy to suspend disbelief.
We spent three hours yesterday running from store to store looking at recliners. There are far too many of them you have to plug into a power outlet. Ugh. And way too many upholstered with fake leather. The last thing a person wants is to be sitting in a padded chair which is too hot three quarters of the year. So the search will continue. Father's Day is six weeks away so we're using that as a time-gauge as there will be sales coming up. Bossman says there is no hurry - the chair is perfectly comfortable when it is in the reclining position so he can baby it along until we find a good replacement.
We also visited a "mobility store" and I shall be renting an electric scooter to use during the SCA event held over Memorial Day weekend. With Bossman now an archer, I prefer to set up our sunshade near the archery range but that means that I am essentially stranded there since ranges are normally a long distance from the central part of an event. And I worry about being able to walk to the area where court would be held. This may solve that problem. This also motivates me to work on strengthening myself as I am not emotionally ready to resign myself to a scooter at SCA events and whenever I leave the house.
