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Dear Populace Member:
thank you very much for your letter recommending your friend for a peerage. We love to see these letters! we try really really hard to keep tabs on who's doing what in our areas and these letters help us a lot, really!!
that said, it would be very helpful if you could please do the following:
please be sure and mention SPECIFIC accomplishments that lead you to believing this person should be recommended to the Crown. The fact that they're nice, or that they helped you when your car broke down, or that they signed up for organ donation when one of your shire members had kidney failure is lovely, but we're looking for specific examples of how their leadership over time has made this game better and what unique contrubions they've contributed over the years that sets them above the rest.
Please do NOT use your letter to berate our council on how you "cant understand why they havent been recognised in the past" or how its such a towering injustice, or how you "know its really just a popularity contest but you hope that the council can put aside its petty issues to recognise this person as they are so horribly horribly overdue"
first off, it is not we who make peers. it is the crown. we only recommend, and the crown can do as they see fit about that. sometimes they agree with us, sometimes not. so the fact that your friend has not been recognised can be due to any number of factors, and the will of the council is only one piece of that pie.
secondly, we all work very very very hard to try NOT to miss people. we hold meetings for hours at all crown events, and regionally at least 4 times a year, plus at least 2 all day retreats a year. We donate huge amounts of our time to teach and judge and attend all the workshops, displays, artisan forums, apprentice shows, meet and greets, etc. To imply that we are not doing our jobs because your friend has not been recognised to the degree that you feel they should be, quite frankly, is a bit insulting and makes us cranky.
yes, occasionally, people can fall between the cracks despite our best efforts. we cant be all things to all people, nor can we be all places at once, though the 8+ hrs of committed activites I spent at the last Crown event would suggest it si not for lack of trying. But please believe that while this may be an oversight, reprimanding us for not recognising your friend is probably not the best way to get us excited about a candidate.
lastly, to be a peer is to be a pillar of the society as a whole. this can often (and does, usually) means years and years of exemplary behaviour and leadership. its not easy. but then its not supposed to be. there is no magic punchcard to the peerage. holding a kingdom office wont do it automatically, nor will sitting gate all by yourself for a jillion hours. sitting gate all by yourself for a jillion hours so you have to be hospitalized for dehydration DEFINATELY wont do it. its all about leadership. leading by example. that kind of thing.
we apperciate letters. they often confirm what we already see and know. and occasionally they can remind us of the efforts of someone who we've seen but maybe they're not as flashy so they kinda move to the back burner.
but who gets made a peer is not up to us, and phrases like "travesty of injustice" and "horrible oversight" and "if so and so is a peer, then so is he" do not add to the cause of your candidate.
thank you,
"Old Tired Cranky Peer"
thank you very much for your letter recommending your friend for a peerage. We love to see these letters! we try really really hard to keep tabs on who's doing what in our areas and these letters help us a lot, really!!
that said, it would be very helpful if you could please do the following:
please be sure and mention SPECIFIC accomplishments that lead you to believing this person should be recommended to the Crown. The fact that they're nice, or that they helped you when your car broke down, or that they signed up for organ donation when one of your shire members had kidney failure is lovely, but we're looking for specific examples of how their leadership over time has made this game better and what unique contrubions they've contributed over the years that sets them above the rest.
Please do NOT use your letter to berate our council on how you "cant understand why they havent been recognised in the past" or how its such a towering injustice, or how you "know its really just a popularity contest but you hope that the council can put aside its petty issues to recognise this person as they are so horribly horribly overdue"
first off, it is not we who make peers. it is the crown. we only recommend, and the crown can do as they see fit about that. sometimes they agree with us, sometimes not. so the fact that your friend has not been recognised can be due to any number of factors, and the will of the council is only one piece of that pie.
secondly, we all work very very very hard to try NOT to miss people. we hold meetings for hours at all crown events, and regionally at least 4 times a year, plus at least 2 all day retreats a year. We donate huge amounts of our time to teach and judge and attend all the workshops, displays, artisan forums, apprentice shows, meet and greets, etc. To imply that we are not doing our jobs because your friend has not been recognised to the degree that you feel they should be, quite frankly, is a bit insulting and makes us cranky.
yes, occasionally, people can fall between the cracks despite our best efforts. we cant be all things to all people, nor can we be all places at once, though the 8+ hrs of committed activites I spent at the last Crown event would suggest it si not for lack of trying. But please believe that while this may be an oversight, reprimanding us for not recognising your friend is probably not the best way to get us excited about a candidate.
lastly, to be a peer is to be a pillar of the society as a whole. this can often (and does, usually) means years and years of exemplary behaviour and leadership. its not easy. but then its not supposed to be. there is no magic punchcard to the peerage. holding a kingdom office wont do it automatically, nor will sitting gate all by yourself for a jillion hours. sitting gate all by yourself for a jillion hours so you have to be hospitalized for dehydration DEFINATELY wont do it. its all about leadership. leading by example. that kind of thing.
we apperciate letters. they often confirm what we already see and know. and occasionally they can remind us of the efforts of someone who we've seen but maybe they're not as flashy so they kinda move to the back burner.
but who gets made a peer is not up to us, and phrases like "travesty of injustice" and "horrible oversight" and "if so and so is a peer, then so is he" do not add to the cause of your candidate.
thank you,
"Old Tired Cranky Peer"
