August 1, 2025

Site Update August 2025

Here is a list of the recent updates to the site

Galleries added, August Monthly Tournament
Events added, Ad Fundam

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

July 10, 2023

Overhaul and a new direction

So a lot has happened. Most of the articles that were here have been archived. I’ll mostly be using this as a home for the things I do with-in re-enactment as Sympkyn of the Moor. Events I attend and projects I work on. Hopefully this time I’ll actually update things regularly.

March 26, 2015

SCA

Sometime ago now we decide to join the SCA. While their camps are not open to the public they are still a lot of fun.

We’ll add information on the events we attend here so you can get an idea of the sorts of things that happen in the SCA in NZ

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.