reenacting question

So, if I'm going to be in one place for a while, which it appears I am, I aim to get back to some of the things I was putting off until I was settled.

One of those is reenacting. While I've tried other periods and found their charms, Rev War is still my favourite. My old group, sadly, is gone. john_arundel and gr_c17 have found a new, very similar home; but, despite it having people in it that I'm fond of, I have a feeling that I wouldn't get on with some of the other members they've told me about.

So I'm casting around for a new group to join, and I'm open to suggestions.

• British (including regular or Loyalist), please.


• I spent a decade in a group that was broad-tent, family-friendly, "let's get the basics right, but we're not asking anyone to live rough". I'd be OK with that, but I'd also be open to a more "progressive", authenticity-oriented group.


• I'd prefer it to be a welcoming group (as discussed by Kelsey Freeman at Historically Speaking), just because that's the sort of atmosphere I'm more comfortable with.


• One that's social both at events and away from them--and by "social" I mean more than just "gets hammered every Friday and Saturday night".


• And preferably one that doesn't do a tremendously "exceptional" impression. By which I mean that I think there are plenty of groups doing light infantry or riflemen or grenadiers or fusiliers or Highlanders or rangers or left-handed Roman Catholic Swabian jaegers. There aren't enough bog-standard hat companies (regular or Provincial).


• Oh, and, of course, it would be good if their level of activity doesn't put me in for a stroke first time out. I'm working to get fit, but if you need to be triathlon-fit to play, I'll be the guy everyone in the section is waiting for to catch up.