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St Sebastians 2021
Another year and another St Sebastians event. This year about 90 people attended the event. It was truly lovely to see so many people enjoying themselves While St Sebastians is traditionally an archery focused event, we also had both heavy … Continue reading
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St Sebastians 2018
St Sebastian’s was a special event this year. It marked the 10th anniversary of Ed and Elizabeth running this on their property. As such Ed had made some extra special site tokens, individual pottery cups, for the attendees. As always there was a … Continue reading
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Labour Weekend 2016
As we have been doing lots with the SCA here we haven’t done much actual living history camping where you have no modern conveniences. This weekend will be different. Master Ed Braythwayte of the SCA is once again hosting a … Continue reading
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New Tent Part 2
So we have had the new tent for a while now so I thought it was finally time to put some pictures up. The tent is the same basic design as our older one only on a larger scale. The … Continue reading
Camp Fires
Within our camp environment fire is one of the most import things. It is used for cooking on, top help keep us warm, to dry wet clothing, to provide light and as a communal gathering place. When ever possible we … Continue reading
New Tent
The first and possibly most important bit of the camp is the tent. This is home while on site. While it needs to be big enough to live in it also needs to pack down small enough that it is … Continue reading
Cooking Fire
One of the most important things is the camp fire. As well as being a source of heat and light in the evenings it is also the only means we have to cook our meals. When ever possible we dig … Continue reading
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Lanterns
In the past we have used fairly modern looking lanterns with tea lights or small votive candles. While these have worked well enough they don’t look right anymore and are slowly being replaced by more period looking lamps. Originally we … Continue reading
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Boxes
One of the goals with our encampment has been to have no clearly modern things lying around. to help with this, and to make life easier when packing for camp we have a number of different boxes that things get … Continue reading