Twelfth Night – 11-12 January 2014

(to be updated as details come to hand)

Twelfth Night is a major event for the Kingdom of Lochac.  The new King and Queen of Lochac will be crowned.

Venue: Kenmore Hall, 209 Taralga Road, Goulburn.

Steward: Rhys Howitt (Master Cristoval), rhysh@webone.com.au.

Cost: early birds to Spring War $66 members, $71 non-members.  Normal price $77/$82 to 1 Jan 2014.  At the door, if there is room, is $88/$93. Under 14 free, concessions are $20 discount on any price.

Bookings to Margaret of Alt Mohr please, to galtcooper@gmail.com.

Back from Festival

The Rowany Festival, over Easter, is the biggest national event for the SCA.  It was held at Glenworth Valley near Gosford.

We had a great time this year.  The highlight was our Friday Night Feast, where we invited the Rowany Seneschal, the volunteer St John Ambulance people, and a stack of other guests to our campsite.

All of the food was cooked over the campfire: sizzling geese, luscious ducks, meatballs disguised (not so well) as golden apples, our own bread, several vegetable dishes, topped off with a 14th-century cheesecake (pronounced delicious) and a fig and raisin dessert.  One visitor said that it was the best feast she’d had in her SCA career, not bad considering the vagaries of campfire cooking!

The goose and duck carcasses were loaded into our biggest cauldron, to make a wonderful soup for the next day — which we kept going for each subsequent day.  It was delicious.

We’ve all come back with renewed enthusiasm, with lists of great projects and a commitment to getting some SCA combat happening in Goulburn.  If anyone can give us a hand with these, please contact Lady Alys the Seneschal.

On Ilkla Moor — 1 Dec 2012

Our signature event is “On Ilkla Moor”, a campfire cooking event where we go directly from original medieval recipes.

We’ll have some equestrian activities too.

Combined Guilds Event: 10-11 Sept 2011

The Hundred of Okewaite, in conjunction with the Herb & Garden Guild of Lochac, announce the 2011 Combined Guilds Event.

A poster can be downloaded here.

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King Bee Tournament & Picnic

Okewaite invites one and all to join us this Spring for the first King Bee Tournament and Picnic!!

Date: Saturday 3rd September
Location: Girl Guides Hall, Victoria Park, Faithfull Street, Goulburn NSW
Time: 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Food: Self catered picnic
Bookings: No Booking Required see flyer below for entry payments
Tournament: Lists and armour inspections open 1:30.
Tournament will be fought in two parts.
Winner of Tournament will be crowned as the King Bee and presented with a hand made helmet mantle.

Tournament Format:The Tournament will be contested over two parts.
Part the first: Entering the Hive.
For the first round each combatant will hold the field in turn, using their choice in weapon style. They will face the other combatants one at a time, who will be armed with a spear to simulate fighting your way into the hive.
For the second round the top half of the field of combatants will be selected to compete one on one in their choice of weapon style. The combatants will continue to engage in honorable combat until one is left remaining to be crowned the King Bee.
A & S: Bee related creation or an item made using honey/wax.
Hand crafted prize for winner!

Steward and Contact: Francesco di Falco di Pietro Francesco Aviati vinattiere (Andrew Winter)
Email: andrewfwinter at gmail.com
Phone:0402 855 977

Please click on the flyer to reveal the larger pdf and more details.

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Destrier – 21 May

Here’s our annual horse event.  It will be a little more low-key than last year, having had lots of wet weather and an attack of life on the part of some key group members.

The feast will be at Cockatrice Farm (76 Barkers Lane, Yarra, near junction of Hume and Federal Highways).  The feast steward is Lady Jocelyn de Holyer, one of the finest cooks in the land.  Please join us for an enjoyable day and lovely evening.

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Update: We had a fabulous feast — the menu is here.

Misrule: the Feast of the Fool — Sat 4 December

Sometimes nothing is as it appears.

This is our next event, and we have some fun ideas.  The food will be visually unusual (but tasty) and we’re hoping to involve the Lieder Theatre acrobats again.

Here’s the poster: please click on it to download, and distribute to your friends.

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PS — please support the SCA by joining.  It costs $25 and gives you $5 discount to most events.
There’s a new easy on-line form here.

Update:

We had a great feast, with acrobats and jugglers from the Lieder Theatre.

Here’s some photos (click to expand):

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There is some discussion on the menu at the Cockatrice Farm blog.