Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Camp”
Gallery
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Waikato Waldorf School Fair 2014
A selection of photos from the Waikato Waldorf School Fair in 2014
May 23, 2025
Site Update
Here is a list of the recent updates to the site
- Image gallery, I wasn’t happy with how it was working so I rebuilt it
- Galleries added, St Johns 2016, St Sebastions 2016, Crown Tournament 2016
- Music, I’ve been adding to the music section and updating the sample files so each tune should have a pdf of the music, a Musescore file for the music and mp3’s of the whole tune and the various parts
- Games, I have been working through the games section to get a consistent look for each entry.
March 10, 2025
Boxes
One of the goals with my encampment has been to have no clearly modern things lying around.
To help with this, and to make life easier when packing for camp I have a number of different boxes that things get stored in. This is an every changing situation as I acquire new kit, retire old items etc.
The basic set of boxes at the moment are made up of 8 different boxes, these are
Events
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Labour Weekend 2023
Cluain hosted another magnificent event over Labour Weekend, October 21st to October 23rd. As always this was at the marvellous setting of Braythwayte Manor just outside Rotorua, New Zealand.
We had 3 days of camping, eating wonderful food prepared from scratch in the camp’s open kitchen and cooked over a fire. There was also dancing, music, fighting, archery, games and craft work.
Labour weekend camp is less structured than most and is very much a ‘bring what you want to work on’ style of camp. While my current health doesn’t allow for much in the ways of physical activity I did spend time playing games and talking with friends both old and new.
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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 and rapier tournaments happening.
The heavy tournament had a random weapon wheel. Each fighter was weapons were determined by 2 spins of the wheel, one for each hand. There were also some special weapons, such as a haddock, a broken bottle, rolling pin and troll club, that added to the mix.
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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 game running over the weekend. The prize this year was a crossbow. This was eventually won by William de Cameron.
The main event at St Sebastian’s is the archery tournament.
This year it was broken down into 3 categories, all shot at the same time.
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Mid-Winter Coronation 2017
Within the SCA there are a number of Kingdoms, each ruled by a King and Queen. Every 6 months a new King and Queen are appointed by a heavy combat tournament, with the winner becoming the next Monarch along with his or her consort.
Within Lochac these tournaments take place in May and November. The in July and January the new King and Queen are crowned.
This year the Midwinter coronation was held in the Canton of Cluain, at the beautiful Hamilton Gardens.
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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 camp at his property but this year he has deemed that the house is off limits, except for the toilet. There is access to fresh water as well but aside from that everything will be stored, prepared, cooked or worked on in camp. There will be no modern tools, like gas cookers or torches. so it is back to open fires and candle light
March 26, 2014
Camp Fires
Within our camp environment fire is one of the most import things. It is used for cooking on, to help keep us warm, to dry wet clothing, to provide light and as a communal gathering place.
When ever possible we have a cooking fire of some sort. If we are allowed we dig a fire pit, where we aren’t we have a raised fire tray. Typically the fire is kept going though out the camp and chopping wood, checking, raking and stoking the fire is a continuous thing.
March 26, 2014
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 were going to replace them with horn lanterns. This posed a couple of problems. Firstly trying to buy them in NZ is proving difficult so we would have to order in from overseas, this has implication with NZ MAF as there is animal product involved. Secondly making our own meant sourcing horn and learning to split it down and flatten it. We have been able to get 1 horn lantern while we were at the re-enactors market in the UK.