The Canton of Lightwood

The Canton of Lightwood has added a couple of regular activities to the calendar in 2013. Regular fighter training, run by canton marshal Sir Guillaume d’Oze, is now held every Wednesday at 5:30 in Rotary Park, Huonville. Sir Guillaume has been offering instruction in rapier and heavy fighting to several members. But if fighting isn’t your Thing, it’s also an excellent social opportunity to bring along projects, have a chat, and some weeks, share a meal in the BBQ shelter. Training is usually mundane clothes, but for a bit of extra visibility we will occasionally be appearing en masse in …

For a lot of Lightwoodians, the pot-luck feast next weekend is going to be the first actual SCA event they’ll attend.  We’ve had our imots for a while, but they’re more for discussion and planning; if an SCA event is a movie, an imot is the a review in a newspaper.  Now it’s time for the main event… so what do you need to know? What To Bring For any SCA event you need garb and feasting gear.  For pot-luck events, you also need some food to share.  And because this particular feast is at the home of the canton’s …

The changes to Australia’s insurance laws over the last little while have finally started biting us in the SCA in a special way, and one of the results is… a sharp increase in the number of members! How did that happen? It’s very simple. The SCA in Australia has a new contract with its insurers, Nosferatu Bathory Dracula and Associates. Under the rules, signed in a suspiciously reddish-coloured ink on the contract, we have to remit five dollars to the insurer for every non-member who attends an SCA event. By “non-member”, they mean anyone, regardless of age. A pregnant woman …

The canton put in a bid to run the baronial investiture on the weekend of 20-21 October, and we got it! So now we’re doing the headless chook dance and organising everything. We are very lucky indeed to have no less a personage than Sir Oz, officially Sir Guillaume d’Oze, Ynys Fawr’s only (actively playing) member of the chivalry, on board as tourney steward and adviser to the cooks. We also have the support of the whole barony and a couple of really lovely venues for the event. Read all about it on the Baronial Investiture pages!

We had a productive and entertaining Imot this weekend. Adelindis brought in the planned menu for the Baronial Investiture, for which we are submitting a proposal. Work continued on couching the Baronial banner, and Morwenna worked on the newer project of making bunting in the Canton’s colours for adding colour and visibility to future tourneys and events. Libby finished sewing over the lines of a tic tac toe board, which the children promptly co-opted and lay on the floor playing. Adelindis brought in her copy of Joan Sutton (mka India Ollerenshaw)’s book on medieval toys and games, which inspired the …

Welcome to those who have been inspired by the pageantry of the Medieval Mayhem to find out more about this re-enactment lark! If you want to become involved, the easiest way is to come to our regular fortnightly event, the Imot (pronounced im-OTT, which is an Anglo-Saxon word meaning “meeting”). The next one is coming up on May 5th, 1-4pm, at Geeveston Community Centre (GeCo), School Rd Geeveston. At the Imot we get together to work on projects, plan events and enjoy workshops on different topics. No garb is required – just turn up, introduce yourselves, and find out more …

UPDATE: The news is more complicated than that.  The rules have changed, and all the names are now different.  Under the new rules, we are now proposed, which is a step up from the initial state of unofficial.  When we get our heraldry registered, we will finally be incipient. So it’s all very silly, but the good news is that at least we’re progressing… in one direction or another. I bear some solemn news.  The proposed canton of Lightwood is no more. Yes, it’s true.  Tonight, in court, the news was handed down: we are now the incipient canton of …

Want to hold a stall at the Medieval Mayhem on 21 April 2012? Now is the time to download your Stallholder’s Form and send it in!  Price for a stall is $20, plus $5 if you need electricity.  You need to have your own food licenses and so on, but you can get those from the Huon Valley Council.