Dear friends, sorry for my belatedness in posting this, but of course this guarantees I have had the meditation needed.

I think our Meditrinalia & Fontinalia was a hit and I was especially happy to see so many patrons and citizens, even novices, posting on these topics. Quite often and in many celebrations it's been seen that only active staff members, scribes and demigods, participate, with the rest (most) of the site falling silent. This time, we had great participation and great fun, with many patrons and citizens both planning, posting, and organising our festivities!

Now it's time for a thank-you note to all those who participated. THANK YOU EVERYONE who posted and made my Med & Font a very pleasant event - I had LOADS of fun and I hope so did you.

I'd like to especially mention some people who worked hard to make this festival a success. I'd like to thank all those who so graciously placed Scavenger hunt clues to their homes and came up with clues for their own names all over the site. Thanks for the imaginative and flexible work!

Although we all had such great fun, for wonderful posts and good humour I would like to commend especially Tobius Tullius and jojo Nebuchadnezzar. You guys can party!

Also thanks to the Roman Vigiles-Welcomers, Frontinus Sempronius, Tanaquil Sergius, and Diantha Livius, who tirelessly welcomed all Roman and Founding patrons to this event.

There are four patrons who I'd like to specially thank. Edwinus Aelius tirelessly organised and conducted the exciting races. Paullus Fabius planned and organised the Roman History trivia (and won most of the other contests). Tanaquil Sergius, as always, managed to make our Latin a bit better with the Latin trivia. Proserpina Curius posted her speeches and functioned as an overall cheerleader. Thank you, dear patrons, for the helping hands and brilliant work!

For the brilliant satyre, and all her background and frontstage work, I'd like to convey my great gratitude to Heraklia Aelius, who with her brilliant wit made us all fall off our chairs once and again.

And for the overall planning, hard work contacting people, most of our Meditrinalia- and contest-related graphics, and the overall cheerfulness she always spreads throughout the site, I'd like to thank my colleague in better and in worse, Diantha Livius.

Again, thanks to all who participated!!!

Our next (but very small) celebration will be Saturnalia around Christmas. After that we will again have a SpringFest in March-April (Floralia again, perhaps?). See you there!