Welcome!

Welcome to Viciens Tricies, a collaborative blog that was only just set up, so currently only has one author, yours truly. I'd best introduce myself, I suppose.

Name's Ashleigh. I'm a twenty year old Australian university student, in my third year. As well as studying here, I'm the current president of the uni's historical re-enactment society. Ironically, I only joined the club as a passing fancy because there wasn't an archery club and it was the closest thing I could find. Two years later, here I am.

Due to re-enactment, I've become an apprentice armourer. From there, I've expanded into making jewellery. It's certainly an interesting and fun hobby, albeit sometimes extremely frustrating. The guy I'm apprenticing under and myself both say that if you're not inventing new swear words while knitting maille, then you're not doing it right. Take from that what you will.

That's enough about me. Time to take some time to lay out the purpose of this blog.

As the title suggests, it's a collaboration of the lives of who-knows-how-many 19-30 year olds from all over the world. We will share our thoughts and memories, our beliefs and whatever else may spring to mind.

This is, in a sense, a companion blog to "The Cottonheaded Ninnymuggins of Sesame Street", whose URL can be found in the title of this blog. Cottons is a collaboration of people aged 18 and under. This is the next step up, as it were - a collaboration of people between the ages of nineteen and thirty.

By following and reading both blogs, we (or at least I) hope that it will be an interesting way to see the differences between the two age groups. Not only in experiences, but in ways of thinking, hopes and dreams, what is and isn't important in their/our lives. It's also a way for the people in this age group to reflect on times past, and those in Cottons to see what they may be like - or up against - in the future.

By the way - unlike Cottons, I won't be posting any guidelines. I like to think that by the age of nineteen, people have enough sense that they aren't necessary.


So, dear audience (or lack thereof, as the case may be), welcome. I hope you enjoy your time here.