Lions Gate Baronial Banquet XLI/2006

Date

4 Nov. XLI/2006

Branch

Lions Gate (Greater Vancouver, BC)

Autocrat

John Dougall MacAndrew of Ross of Balnagowan

Site

Sapperton Pensioners Hall, 318 Keary St New Westminster BC.

Weather

Cool, with intermittant showers

Event Highlights

Attended by Her Highness, Princess Ksenia, and Their Royal Excellencies, Ulfgar and Renee.

Pictures

(Links to event pictures off-site)

Sample: Twelfth Night Pictures By Lord Joe Populace

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50925312@N00/293789719/in/pool-35237096034@N01/ These photos were taken by Lady Fiona the Archer.

And now the rest of Fiona's pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/45875039@N00/293867242/

Personal Memories

(Add your personal event memories here. End them with a blank line, four dashes and another blank line. Don't forget to sign them with dash-dash-tildex3. Reminder: it's considered VERY rude to edit someone else's memories.)

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(Gleaned from the Lions Gate mailing list, Nov 2006)

My Lords and Ladies,

Baronial banquet is only a memory but I think one that will last for a long time. For those who missed it, our amazing cook Shareef received the mortar and pestle award from the Baron and Baroness for the most memorable food they had recieved this year and the quote of the night for our hall, "This decorating is amazing, the best I have ever seen in the SCA."

(I sure hope someone got some pictures to share. )

Some of the many I own thanks:

Decorating:

• Fiona for supervising
• Ealeen and Kenneth, who assisted for five hours even though neither would actually be at the event, Adam and Ayleth, David of Tiraine who got the unpleasant job of hauling off all the site garbage as we were not allowed to use the hall dumpster (future autocrats make note).
• Kimberly who created the castle mural and worked hard from 9am when we opened the site to 1am when we closed it.
• Anika, who assisted as co-autocrat, worked hard on the teardown, and who is now doing the laundry from the event.

Gate:

• Elena (who would have guessed) but once again she bailed me out and then spent hours cleaning the kitchen.

Kitchen:

• Shareef - head cook
• Mikhail - head server
• Alex - butler

and some of the many who washed, cooked, served, toiled so others could enjoy:

• Bernadette and Mikhail who helped with set up, tear down, and worked the feast as servers.
• Sunjan and Duckie who looked after the bar,
• Collegium Leonum (the Baronial Banquet house band :-)

For those I missed, I apoligise and will catch up with you later, but who would have guessed that after 17 hours of hard work it is still impossible to sleep.

Oh yes, and the amazing food, can I say enough about the cook and the food. That rice pudding was incredible.

For me, the evening was indeed magic. Thank you everyone.

John Macandrew, OP

ps. lost and found report pending. pps. the additional Lions Claw was: Lady Anika Styfe....

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Katherine Moore (used to be Kate de Passi) and I in our fortuitously-matching Flemish Girl outfits got to serve Head Table. The highlights of the food for me were the spinach and lentils, dolmades, squab curry over couscous, and the gold-flecked shortbread cookies. And Oh! the rice pudding sprinkled with pomegranate seeds! There were spontaneous outbreaks of eastern dance and a lovely short-enough-for-dessert court.

Sir Yusuf, Sir Griffin, and... and... (AGH! Brain seizure!) another person who I should know immediately, were recognized as new members of the Order of the Lion's Claw. (Missing folks were Anika Styfe, co-autocrat of the event, and Rodrigo de Cordova. Thanks Rodrigo. --E.B.)

The decorations were absolutely amazing. Little scenes had been set up around the hall -- a pavilion with furniture in one corner, a desert scene on another wall. One wall covered completely with a faux brick wall. And three long saris hung from the ceiling down the length of the hall made the whole site feel very intimate. The candle chandelier flickered most attractively. Even the alcohol bar was encased in exotic silks.

--Elizabeth Braidwood 19:18, 6 Nov 2006 (EST)

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Thanks should also go to my First Apprentice Qacha Suren - who is ALWAYS our third Bar Babe.

More Thanks for Sir Geoffry de Rennes, who came home to a frantic message on his answering asking for an emergency replacement for Sunjan - so he came straight out and I was free to go home............... I had the flu, and needed to be in bed.........ask Ducky what I did to the car as I pulled away from a little parking meter and tried to merge with traffic.

What I actually merged with was a telephone pole half a car length in front of me (sigh....).

Duckie would really like to thank the people who set up and decorated the pop-up Bar. The rope lights and the multitude of candles was fantastic! Too bad I didn't get to stay at the event :-(

Thanks to everybody who made a small hall look so big and well-decorated. The parking was cosy, but free at the parking meters after 6 PM. Watch out for the rogue telephone poles......

Sunjan,
Stunt Typist for the Bartender

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Event Copy

Autocrat: Master John MacAndrew

Baronial Banquet Lions Gate 4 November 2006 Burnaby, BC

Greetings M'Lords and Ladies,

It is time to gather and tell of great deeds over excellent food and drink. It is time for the Lions Gate Baronial Banquet.

AUTOCRAT: Master John Macandrew (mka: John Mail), [contact information removed for privacy] CO-AUTOCRAT: HL Anika Styfe: [contact information removed for privacy]

SITE INFO: We will gather amongst the echos of fencers at the Sapperton Pensioners Hall, 318 Keary St New Westminster BC. Hall opens at 4:00 for games and socialization with the feast starting at 6:00 and then at the stroke of midnight the hall will close with another years memories sealed.

SITE FEE: $23.00 for on-board (120 tickets), $10.00 for off board (16 tickets) Non-member surcharge will be in effect, payable at gate. Make cheques to:"The Barony of Lions Gate". Tickets can be obtained by contacting the autocrat or co-autocrat or.............

TICKETS Will be available from Anika, Lasairiona, Cyneric, and myself. As we have little time to sell the tickets I will be offering the additional motivation. For the first 25 people to have paid I will be having a raffle for a wonderful desktop book of photos from Africa written by Merlin of the Fens. For the second 25 people to have paid I will be having a raffle for a slightly used but none-the-less lovely chess set. Parking is around back and limited so carpooling is highly recommended. The Skytrain stop is only five minutes from the hall.

Partial Menu: First remove tsasiki hummus Lentil Soup Flat Bread Pickled onions Olives Dalmades Second remove Madira - MEAT Risotto - Vegan Spinach and Lentils in Pomegranit sauce - Vegan Flat Bread Third remove Squa Currey - red ... Meat Lentil sweet Currey ... Vegan Bulger Wheat garnish - Vegan Flat Bread - Vegitarian Sweet Chutney - Vegan Pepper Chutney - Vegitarian Flat Bread Final remove Honied Almonds - Vegan Rice Stew with cinnamon and currants - vegitarian fruit - Vegan Puff pastry dessert – vegiterian As always libations will be sold according to mundane drinking laws

Site Info: Name: Sadderton Pensioners Hall 318 Keary St. New Westminster, BC Directions to Site: DIRECTIONS:

From points east: Make your way to Highway #1, Take exit #40A/BRUNETTE AVE SOUTH, Turn right on BRUNETTE AVE, Turn right on KEARY ST, Arrive at 318 KEARY ST

From points west: Make your way to highway #1, Take exit

1. 40A/BRUNETTE AVE SOUTH onto BRUNETTE AVE, turn right on KEARY ST, Arrive at 318 KEARY ST.