This post, and everything below, relates to the 2015 Haarlem Jamborette, keep going and you will get to 2011!
Here are some facts from team events: -Team events was in search of the name of the trotters. We were thinking of magizzard, or druïdian, but somehow it doesn’t seem to fit (and hard to say out loud). Then we found that the original nickname of Aragorn II, son of Arathorn (aka strider) in Lord of the Rings was trotter.The name Trotter was retained for a long time, and Tolkien decided to change it to Strider only after the story was completed. So we could use trotter ;)
Also trotter sounded something like globetrotter (world traveller) and that’s what the trotters did. So it has nothing to do with pigs.. -During the camp the grey trotter had four different looks. During an avatar-update (female), during the reflection (mask), closing ceremony (glasses and different cape) and the shut up and jambo (long hair).
-Fabulist’s original name was Torrysteller or Jamborina. On the campsite itself we decided that fabulist (an old English word for liar, or fable / fiction poet) suited much better. -The astronomer and the grey trotter in the closing ceremony were played by the same man.
The grey trotter Newhouses was named after one of the staffmembers. He and his team helped us out by moving the hyperbolic-paraboloid.
During the camp the Fabulist had several bad hair days and in the end she decided to change her look.
The naming of the trotters took some time. Then we decided that the name had to contain some of the characteristics and the colour of the subcamp. Mellow Yellow was the first name we invented for the trotters. We thought it would fit with the festival vibe of that subcamp. The name Sunny Orange was very clear. The orange trotter lives on the beach and there is a lot of sun. The red trotter had her outfit before the naming. The name Reddy Freddy (or Ready Freddy/ Freddie, we don’t mind the spelling) fitted the flamboyant pirate look.
Freddy rhymes with Reddy and Reddy Freddy is a big fan of Queen. The name of the green trotter took the most time. We liked hopper from grass hopper. Then we came to Geri Hopper. Geri is one of the singers in the Spice girls.
