Our Agincourt event, 24 October
This was the first feast for the Hundred of Okewaite.
Our overlords, the Baron and Baroness of Rowany, were in attendance. Which was very kind of them, as Her Excellency is expecting their first child in the next few weeks.
Lady Alys ran the event, and Master Cristoval ran the kitchen. The food was well appreciated, and the event was a joyful one.
The highlight of the evening was the music provided by Jane and Eric and their kids, so we had live dance music. Their Excellencies called them up in Court to thank them for their efforts, and presented them with some lovely braids.
Here’s a couple of photos from the night, with more in the gallery.
Add comment October 25, 2009
Lilac Festival
We did a demonstration as part of Goulburn’s Lilac Festival.
We set up our ivy-leaf pavilion in Belmore Park, and ran combat bouts all day. See the gallery for more photos. Many thanks to Politarchopolis (SCA Canberra) and Agaricus (SCA SW Sydney) for their assistance.
We also participated in the street parade on the Sunday.
Our helpers from Polit and Agaricus had left by then, so we roped in the “willing workers on organic farms” staying at Cockatrice Farm, and Allison’s family, to make up the numbers.
We ended up with a pretty good presentation.
Add comment October 7, 2009
On Ilkla Moor — 21-22 November 2009
Our second event is a campfire cooking event at Cockatrice Farm.
House Abbotsford, who have the splendid period encampment at Rowany Festival, are helping us to use very traditional cooking methods, based on real medieval recipes.
We hope to have a display of medieval hats, and to teach you how to make some basic hats. Lady Alys will help you make a cloak, and we’re hoping for sessions on spinning and pottery too. And some English country dances.
There will be an archery target set up.
There will be a list field available for informal heavy combat or fencing. There is a good armouring workshop on site, so it may be a good opportunity to fix nagging armour issues.
Click to download poster
1 comment August 18, 2009
Sir Alfar to visit
We put a request to the Rowany email list for assistance getting our armouring and combat started.
Sir Alfar has kindly offered to assist us. He will be at Cockatrice Farm at about 10 am Sunday 2 August, for an armouring working bee and some fighter training for anyone interested.
Alfar is a Duke of Lochac, and has lots of experience in helping newcomers to get equipped and ready for heavy combat. (If less keen on archers…)
Update: Many thanks to Sir Gui and Jarl Alfar and their friends for helping us out with training and armouring. We made huge progress in a day. More discussion on this at the Cockatrice Farm blog.
Add comment July 28, 2009
St Crispin’s Day
Okewaite’s first feast will be on 24 October. It has an Agincourt theme. The Baron of Rowany will be attending.
Please put up some posters. (Gabriel, King of Lochac, is the model; artwork graciously provided by Maria Styles.)
Feast of St Crispin
Add comment July 18, 2009
Christmas in July
Last Saturday, we ran a Medieval Christmas in July as a fundraiser for the Goulburn Club, a not-for-profit social group.
It was a great event, and raised nearly $1300 plus bar sales. The club wrote back to us “The night was a huge success and was probably the biggest and best single event held at the club for some years.”
The feast booklet is here, including the menu. It’s set up for bifold printing, if the order seems odd.
Christmas in July
Add comment July 15, 2009
Welcome
Welcome to the new website for the Hundred of Okewaite. Please use it, by contributing stories and comments about the life of our group.
Add comment July 15, 2009
