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The Vine April AS XLV the Newsletter of the Barony of Aneala Volume 17 , Issue 12 The Vine April AS XLV The Newsletter of the Barony of Aneala Volume 17 , Issue 12 Photo supplied by Lady Sorcha inghean ui Cheallaigh Page CONTENTS Page 2: Contents Page 3: About The Vine & Online Resources Page 4: B&B Letter Page 5: Illud est rem diximus Page 6: Archery Article Page 7: Advertisement Page 8: Regular Events Page 99----14:14: Event Adver- tisement Page 15: Event Competi- tions Page 16: Kingdom A&S Competitions Photo supplied by Sir Andre de Montsegur Page 17: Regnum Page 2 About The Vine This is Volume 17, Issue 12 (April A.S. XLIV / 2011) of The Vine, the newsletter of the Barony of Aneala. It is available from the Chronicler at [email protected]. The Vine is not an official pub- lication of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) and does not delineate SCA policy. The official newsletter for the Society in Australia is Pegasus, which is available from the Registrar at regis- [email protected]. The closing date for submissions to The Vine is the Sunday evening after Baronial Council, which is normally the third Friday of the month. Advertising, including event flyers, should be formatted for an A5 page in text, Word, Publisher or similar format. PDFs are not preferred; please send original source documents instead. If in doubt, contact the Chronicler for more information. Copyright Information: Official articles from Society Officers, event flyers and calendar information may be reprinted without further permission in newsletters and other publications of branches of the SCA. All copyright in original articles or art herein belongs with the receptive contributors, who must approve all re-use. Please contact the Chronicler for all enquiries regarding re-publication of articles and artwork from The Vine. The Vine may use art from a variety of sources. If your art is featured here without your credit and/or permission, contact us, and we will properly credit you, or cease use of the art. Some art- work herein is © Carol Hansen of DragonBear.com , HeraldicClipart.com and from inmycommu- nity.com.au Disclaimer: The Vine, the Barony of Aneala and the SCA do not control web-sites other than their own, and so offer no warranty as to the suitability or content of external sites. You visit these sites at your own risk. Online Resources Group Sites Barony of Aneala (Perth, Western Australia) http://aneala.sca.org.au Canton of Abertridwr (South of Perth, WA) http://sca.org.au/abertridwr http://aneala.lochac.sca.org/ Incipient Canton of Aachenfeld aachenfeld/ College of St Basil the Great (University of WA) http://www.sca.org.au/basil Shire of Bosenberg (Southwest of Western Australia) www.freewebs.com/bosenberg Shire of Dragons Bay (between Abertridwr & Bosenberg) http://www.dragonsbay.org Kingdom of Lochac (Australia and New Zealand) http://lochac.sca.org SCA Corporate site (Australia) http://www.sca.org.au SCA Corporate site (World-wide) http://www.sca.org Page 3 Greetings unto the Populace of Aneala from Kilic Baron and Branwen Baroness, We have had an exciting month. Very busy making garb, shoes, hats, jewellery and food. Practising music, dance and honing skills like fighting. First off we had Newcomers Feast, where, Seamus Nua received a Black Feather and Lady Alanna Galliwoode received a Demi Sun for service. It was a great event where we met new people and introduced them to our Society. Thank you to the Stew- ard and all who helped out. Next we had our biggest demo at The Perth Law Gardens at the WAMA fair. All the different Groups in the SCA as well as other medieval groups got together and introduced themselves to the populace of Perth . We had quite a few enquires. A thank you to Mistress Catherine d’Arc for co-ordinating our effort and to all those who came along and contributed. Well done. The next day, Lord Hadrian challenged all to come to his Queen’s guard challenge. He was accompanied by our Baro- nial Champion Lord Dino in facing all comers on the list field. There were some 10 fighters in the list; Baron Nathan did win in the end after a 3 way tie between him, Lord Conan and Lord Columb. A thank you to Lord Hadrian and his helpers for a great event. Then we had this last weekend, Master now Sir Nathan Blacktower’s birthday bash Tournament and Knighting. A really hot day which didn’t slow the fighters any. Their majesties, Gabriel and Constanzia had a great time. This was followed by a feast where Lord Columb showed off his culinary skill and we got to dance, sing and feast with gay abandonment. Thank you again to those who helped set up, take down, performed their offices and generally made newer members and visitors at home. The next day saw The King and visiting Knights Sir Stefan and Sir Somerled showing and teaching our armoured combatants and the Queen making headwear and showing stitching at Wandi. An IKAC was also run and we had more fun in the sun and heat. Their Majesties did recognise the following with admittance to these Orders. Congratulations all and well deserved. Mistress Catherine received the Cockatrice for Arts and Sciences Baron Lachlahn a Golden Tear for service Lord Agostino an Award of Arms Lady Bettina an Award of Arms Lord Raynald and Lady Petronilla from Dragon’s Bay, Awards of Arms Lord Conan received a Miles Regni for service to fighting. They also re-announced the Lily for Lady Helen and the Prometheus for Sir Peter In our Court we were honoured to admit Lord Pantera and Lord Columb unto our Order of the Valiant Swan. Lady Alianore presented us with a wonderfully beaded Baronial Device. So in all a very successful month. What’s next? Well its still going to be busy. April sees The Autumn Gathering, Rowany festival and Southern Moot, all camping events where our members will be travel- ling to. For locals the Autumn gathering will be held down south in Bunbury in a vineyard and we know most will be starting to prepare for those events. Travel safe and stay healthy. In May we may have another visiting Knight, the date to be confirmed. Then the Baronesses’ Fighter Auction, our Premier Tournament of the year, where we you can bid for an Armoured or Rapier fighter. The theme for this year is the fighter is to choose their favourite Feast Dish; this again will be a blind auction. We would like prizes for the prize table, just contact us if you have any questions. This will be held at East Cannington Park , Station St Cannington on Sunday the 22 nd May - More details will follow. My deputy will be M’Lord Ben from Abertridwr. June sees us going to Pencampwr where we expect the King and Queen to attend. They really must enjoy our company. So in anticipation, write recommendations. To all our populace have a great time but remain safe. Yours in service Kilic and Branwen Baron and Baroness of Glorious Aneala Page 4 Illud est rem diximus The College of Saint Basil the Great is back in business - the business of avoiding our studies in favour of me- dieval pursuits, that is! We returned to university at the end of February and training resumed immediately. Lately there has been a great turn-out at college trainings, with both heavy and rapier training occurring and fingerloop braiding being taught to everyone who will sit still long enough to try it. We’re trying our very best to encourage dancing, too, but alas we face the age-old problem of the boys not wanting to join in. The College Newcomers’ Feast ran on March 12th to welcome all the new members of the Colleges of Saint Basil and Saint Lazarus. It was highly successful and feedback from the attending newcomers has been posi- tive. We were especially pleased to see them return to training the following week! The College greatly appre- ciated the help and support of everyone who attended and would like to say an extra special thank you to Duenna Catalina and Lady Elinor who stepped in to run the kitchen at the last minute due to the ill health of M’Lady Bettina. Congratulations go to Seamus Nua who was admitted to the Order of the Black Feather and to all those who were awarded prizes for their garb on the night. Furthermore, some official seneschal hand-overs took place at the feast: congratulations go to both outgoing and incoming seneschals. Members of the College attended the WAMA Fair on March 19th and greatly enjoyed the day. As always there was much dancing and general merriment and we were fortunate to have some of our newer members attend as well. Currently the College is preparing for Nathan’s birthday tourney and the accompanying royal visit. Everyone is working on fancy new 14th century garb and of course gifts for Their Majesties. Perhaps the most impressive thing that the College has achieved so far this year is that we have (so far) stuck to our new years resolution - we’ve been productive at every training session! Remember that everyone is welcome to attend College trainings! We appreciate not just the input and assis- tance of members of the barony but also your excellent company. The College of Saint Basil the Great trains on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4pm on the Oak Lawn at UWA, with A&S held on Thursday evening from around 7pm in the Guild Council Room at UWA.
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