Hi all,
Only one new invite this week:
GODALMING HERITAGE DAYS
"We would like to invite you to come to Godalming in September for a
leisurely afternoon of Morris Dancing as part of Heritage Open Days. There
are plenty of interesting buildings, exhibitions and history walks that can
be enjoyed between dancing spots. Also we will be celebrating the 200th
birthday of the Pepperpot, our old Town Hall. All the dancing will take
place around the town centre and we will be starting around 12.00 and
finishing between 5.00 and 6.00 both days and you are welcome to attend for
any part of or all of one or both days." Several other sides are invited
(including Thrales) and it could be a good chance to socialise?
- - - - -
Please keep the replies coming in, especially regarding the summer
festivals!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Please remember to bring your diaries to the EGM (24th March) and be
prepared to commit to lots of stuff. I will be demanding to know your
availability. I really want to get lots of this confirmed!
Thanks all. See some of you tonight,
Rachel x
Hey,
Does anyone work near an M and S? I've now been in a couple and they haven't had the 100 denier ones other than mysterious woolen things or thermal (maybe not a great idea!?) if someone could pick me up a pair/couple of pairs I'd be really grateful and will reimburse when I see them on Friday?
If not I'll try again, has anyone bought a pair recently and if so could they tell me which M and S they went to? To prevent me meandering around too much!
Thanks :)
Becky x
Hi All
I finally made it to Primark, & found these knickers at £1.70 each.
If we're wedded to 1,2,4 & 5 having the same pants as the tumbler I understand. If you're open to us having different ones based on the notion that you won't see as much of ours (if any), so we don't need the same wow factor - I can pick up enough pairs for the DERT team & reserves tomorrow.
(There's also black & red frilly ones for the same price Sue - if you're interested) :-)
Opinions please.
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Are we supposed to have picked room mates for the weekend already? Just realised I don't even know everyone who's staying at the PI! I guess Laura and I will be arriving last as we're not leaving until after work. What do we need to do about checking in? Do you think you'll all be at the Friday night drinking venue when we get there? X
Me again!
I also bought one of these for £7, in a size 16 so it's roomy & comfy.
Just wonder if these plus iron-on logos might be a cheaper option than getting sweatshirts properly printed. (They do them in black too.)
We could put our Raven-names on the back in iron-on letters. Of course I'd be Towering Raven - ha ha!!
I know the ethics are questionable, but I love a bit of Primarni from time to time.
Hx
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Hi all,
Thanks again for another great crawl last week and thanks to Hannorah and Janet for organising.
I'm really sorry that I forgot to get our final dance recorded on Thursday. I did, however, take this very dark video in the pub where we did two dances http://youtu.be/PaXcSmnIDRA.
So, DERT. It's nearly here! We've put a lot of effort in in the last two months and it's really paying off. So much of the dance is crisper, tidier and tighter than before. The reception we had at some of the pubs on Thursday just shows how good we've become! There's obviously more we could do, but there's only one more practice before DERT. I'm trying to plan our two hours wisely so I'm thinking, for the DERT set:
Little bit more precision work:
- Straight line of swords in fourth corner
- Snappy hands in pixies
- clash
Rapper is about getting the right balance between precision and buzz so I also want to work on:
- Keeping heads up throughout the dance
- Smiling at appropriate times
-Flicking skirts in walk the dog, back 8 and pixies - please bring skirts and petticoats if possible
-Dancing in tight spaces
I've sent round a lot of videos recently and I've put the links below. If you're in the DERT set please can you think of ONE thing about your personal dancing that you want to make sure you get right. It could be something you usually get right but sometimes forget, or it something that doesn't quite feel right. If you don't get time I'll think of it for you ;-)
DERT set, please let me know if there's anything crucial I've left off the list above of things to work on on Monday.
For the DERT reserve set:
More dancing to improve fluency and timings - Sinead can work with you to iron out any issues so please have a think about any figures you want to work more on.
Sue, I think you did really well on Thursday and that your timings for the jokes which relate to the figures was good. Let me know if there's anything you specifically want to work on.
Finally, please bring your sashes - Sue wants to attack them with her new diamonte gun!
See you all tomorrow,
Ffion x
Video links from me and Hannorah:
http://youtu.be/PaXcSmnIDRAhttp://youtu.be/PanicNp0yZ4http://youtu.be/Wz79yUEf4ywhttp://youtu.be/0pcmpc8aWachttp://youtu.be/mBzXag7vb84http://youtu.be/nu22fcwQIychttp://youtu.be/xVE5No7AwQMhttp://youtu.be/pxnTr2K0RkQhttp://youtu.be/8Qh8-66vvFEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjVXoC0FUwchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeuDpFDkK9o&feature=youtube_gdata_playerhttp://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8iws2aTcNk&feature=youtube_gdata_player&deskt…http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ECqqQbT5s&feature=youtube_gdata_player&deskt…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqiwLO2dTlE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Woop woop!
Go Ravens!
I am very excited :)
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----- Reply message -----
From: "Ffion Mair" <ffion_coch(a)hotmail.com>
To: "Tower Ravens team" <team(a)towerravens.org.uk>
Subject: [Tower Ravens] Final pre-DERT practice
Date: Tue, Mar 4, 2014 09:00
Congratulations everyone. The dance last night was looking and feeling really good. The music is energetic and Sue is confident and entertaining. Let's do this!!
On 3 Mar 2014, at 22:56, "Hannorah Lee" <hannorah.lee(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
I guess tall & dark is relative - & let's remember I'm rather short & pasty!
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On 3 Mar 2014, at 09:40, "Lindsey Kennedy" <kennedy.linds(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe Hannorah is seeing the other teams, rather than the judges - opinion may see (some of) them as 'tall and dark'.
On 3 March 2014 09:26, Becky Such <rebeccasuch(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
And beards, don't forget the beards!
From: ffion_coch(a)hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 07:15:40 +0000
To: hannorah.lee(a)hotmail.co.uk
CC: team(a)towerravens.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Tower Ravens] Final pre-DERT practice
Where do you think you're going to find any tall dark men at DERT?! More likely bald, beer-bellied men ;-)
On 3 Mar 2014, at 06:27, "Hannorah Lee" <hannorah.lee(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
How are we going to do?
My crystal ball tells me we're going to do our very best & tall dark men will be impressed by how much we've improved in the last 12 months.
:-)
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On 2 Mar 2014, at 13:45, "Sue Connolly" <connollysue(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
PS Fantastic prediction, Hannorah! CONGRATULATIONS! Only 12p out (even less if you count the 0.06 euros that I didn't mention)
Now tell us how we're going to do at DERT.
S x
From: connollysue(a)hotmail.com
To: ffion_coch(a)hotmail.com
CC: team(a)towerravens.org.uk
Subject: RE: [Tower Ravens] Final pre-DERT practice
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 12:29:10 +0000
Back on e-mail at last But pages of unread messages to trawl through now
Thanks for all this, Ffion.
I'd love to go through my whole Dert routine a couple of times if there's time available tomorrow.
Can anyone remember the new thing I thought of saying on Thursday? One was something like 'I used to have legs like that' but I can't for the life of me recall the other.
We made £87.08 on Thursday. Similar amount to usual in small coinage, but fewer £1 coins and only 1 note.
Well done everyone - a highly enjoyable evening!
S x
From: ffion_coch(a)hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 11:33:54 +0000
To: team(a)towerravens.org.uk
Subject: [Tower Ravens] Final pre-DERT practice
Hi all,
Thanks again for another great crawl last week and thanks to Hannorah and Janet for organising.
I'm really sorry that I forgot to get our final dance recorded on Thursday. I did, however, take this very dark video in the pub where we did two dances http://youtu.be/PaXcSmnIDRA.
So, DERT. It's nearly here! We've put a lot of effort in in the last two months and it's really paying off. So much of the dance is crisper, tidier and tighter than before. The reception we had at some of the pubs on Thursday just shows how good we've become! There's obviously more we could do, but there's only one more practice before DERT. I'm trying to plan our two hours wisely so I'm thinking, for the DERT set:
Little bit more precision work:
- Straight line of swords in fourth corner
- Snappy hands in pixies
- clash
Rapper is about getting the right balance between precision and buzz so I also want to work on:
- Keeping heads up throughout the dance
- Smiling at appropriate times
-Flicking skirts in walk the dog, back 8 and pixies - please bring skirts and petticoats if possible
-Dancing in tight spaces
I've sent round a lot of videos recently and I've put the links below. If you're in the DERT set please can you think of ONE thing about your personal dancing that you want to make sure you get right. It could be something you usually get right but sometimes forget, or it something that doesn't quite feel right. If you don't get time I'll think of it for you ;-)
DERT set, please let me know if there's anything crucial I've left off the list above of things to work on on Monday.
For the DERT reserve set:
More dancing to improve fluency and timings - Sinead can work with you to iron out any issues so please have a think about any figures you want to work more on.
Sue, I think you did really well on Thursday and that your timings for the jokes which relate to the figures was good. Let me know if there's anything you specifically want to work on.
Finally, please bring your sashes - Sue wants to attack them with her new diamonte gun!
See you all tomorrow,
Ffion x
Video links from me and Hannorah:
http://youtu.be/PaXcSmnIDRAhttp://youtu.be/PanicNp0yZ4http://youtu.be/Wz79yUEf4ywhttp://youtu.be/0pcmpc8aWachttp://youtu.be/mBzXag7vb84http://youtu.be/nu22fcwQIychttp://youtu.be/xVE5No7AwQMhttp://youtu.be/pxnTr2K0RkQhttp://youtu.be/8Qh8-66vvFEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjVXoC0FUwchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeuDpFDkK9o&feature=youtube_gdata_playerhttp://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8iws2aTcNk&feature=youtube_gdata_player&deskt…http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ECqqQbT5s&feature=youtube_gdata_player&deskt…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqiwLO2dTlE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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