Food & Shelter

Food

Most Canterbury Faires provide a range of eating options. Check the link at left for the food options associated with the next faire.

The site has three kitchen areas, including the main kitchen facility and two smaller kitchens in the main bunkroom building and in the lower Tui Lodge. Kitchens have some equipment, ie pots, pans, roasting dishes etc.

Cooks preparing a meal plan or the feast are assumed to have priority or, on the day of the feast, exclusive access to the main kitchen. The other two kitchens are usually available at all times.

Please ensure that you clean all messes for which you are responsible!

If you are wanting to cook in an encampment, please check the site Camping Advice
rules.

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Drink

The site has clean potable tap water, and we encourage people to ensure that they keep well-hydrated, especially if fighting. Please cover any sipper bottles or other modern drinking vessels.

The Mangy Mongol can supply coffee, hot chocolate, cordials and other beverages.

We have special permission from the site operators to bring alcohol on to the site IF CONSUMED IN MODERATION.

The site is "discretely damp", meaning that alcohol consumption should not be obvious. Drinks should be decanted into medieval-looking vessels, and empty vessels should be kept out of sight and disposed of in the recycling bins. Moderation should be observed and obvious drunken behaviour is not acceptable.

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Mangy Mongol

purveyors of fine comestibles by Royal Appointment

The Mangy Mongol Coffee House provides a range of snacks and drink, including its famous thick black Turkish-style coffee (bottomless cups available). No Faire-going is complete without a souvenir Mong cup imprinted with your own symbol.

As well as fine consumables, The Mong provides a welcoming place where people can while away the hours with song and merriment.

In addition to its many services, the Mangy Mongol is known to provide a range of potables, and welcomes, as a small recompense, the donation of good coin, precious baubles, or other saleable items (NB no children, camels or other living creatures). If you take advantage of the potable supply, please be sure you do not take advantage of their generosity....there is a jar for such coins as you care to provide.

Volunteers staff the coffee house almost all hours. All money raised goes to improving its services. Those interested in lending a hand should contact the current patrone Michelet de Saint Clair.

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Accommodation

Indoor accommodation at the Canterbury Faire site is in the form of bunk rooms situated in the 2 main buildings. Most bunk rooms contain between 4-11 beds each. The smaller bunk rooms will be allocated to families and persons preferring quieter evenings. The larger bunkrooms will be allocated to others. Indoor accommodation should be pre-arranged with the steward prior to the event.

For the bunkrooms, beds and mattresses are supplied, other bedding is your responsibility. Please note that the mattresses are available on site for indoor accommodation only and may not be removed from the buildings. Outdoor campers should therefore make suitable bedding arrangements.

Tents are available for hire. They are supposed to be 8-man tents, but will comfortably accommodate 4 SCA people plus gear. These tents do not have fitted floors but thankfully New Zealand has no snakes, scorpions or fire ants and no commonly encountered venymous spiders, making a fitted floor less necessary. You will need to provide your own ground sheets and bedding..

All tent guy-ropes must be marked with material visible at night (e.g. white pennants or cloth).

Billeting arrangements in Christchurch before and after the Faire can usually be made.

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Storage

Southron Gaard has a large storage facility at the CF site, with space available for private rental so you can store large, heavy or awkward stuff between events. See the guidelines here or contact the Baronial Constable for more information.

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Faire Steward: THL Terese and Lord Gavin

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