Hello all,
Please find attached AGM minutes, plus action points for individuals that I've tried to pull out from it, but I'm hoping people have fairly good ideas of what they need to do anyway!
Generally there needs to be a hand over of roles- this includes Hannah having access to the info emails and me handing over any ongoing correspondents/organising. I need to take on a lot of info regarding the dance from Katherine!
Tour organisers- plan out the next couple of months of crawls- where they'll happen and who is organising them. Maybe doodle poll potential dates for the pre-DERT crawls.
Kit- can we confirm if we have Janet's kit? Sinead if you read this does your new timetable allow you to come back? If not are we able to have your kit back until you're around to use it again? -Hannorah to find out the price of making a skirt at her local tailors - Laura S have you any thoughts on Westerhope kit? Have a lot more time at this point
Festivals- Hannah to ask re. Bromyard next year and to look into Chippenham - we can invite ourselves so think it would be a good starting point for us!
Longsword - Hannah to create a doodlepoll of potential dates for a longsword practice. One Saturday/ Sunday to give it a go and then see from there how we do
Ffion to send out an email asking inactive members if they still want to be on the email list, delete as appropriate.
My aim is to get to grips with the dance, discuss with Katherine/Ffion any ideas for how to develop Piccadilly. As well as working on the team performing a double jubilee as aim to do this at the showcase.
Westerhope- Laura S to consider plan for Westerhope - AGM discussion re. having a second Westerhoper who can continue the practice on the alternate weeks you're not there but following your plans of what you'd like to work on in the long term (please try and sort this at this coming weeks practice).
I am away for the next week and a bit so am leaving Katherine/Ffion in charge of next weeks practice (sorry Katherine, no retirement for you!) Also as long as Laura S is around I'd like the team to work on Westerhope.
Thanks all,
Becky
Got this strange enquiry at work… Rapper has a lot in common with marriage
apparently!
Do we know who the local sides are to Lichfield?
Cheers, Laura
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From: *Christine* <christine(a)reflectiongardens.org.uk>
Date: 30 January 2017 at 18:47
Subject: Rapper teams
To: info(a)efdss.org
Hi ,
can you put me in touch with any rapper teams who would be willing to dance
at our golden wedding party, Sat. 1st April about 4pm near Lichfield? I
have tried whip the cat in Nottingham, and another team and gather there is
a big convention for rappers the following week. I have also found it hard
to get contact details so would appreciate your help. We think rapper
dances have much in common with marriage which is why we are so keen for
that form of dancing,
best wishes
Chris Polhill
Hello all,
Thanks for a good crawl everyone!
I appreciate there probably wasnt enough dancing for everyone to make it even and I hope to spend the next couple of weeks working on evening out both what people know of piccadilly and westerhope.
Piccadilly people really well done. I think the hard work we put into the day practice has really paid off. Even when the movements aren't perfect the timings are working really solidly and we've definitely improved on all the dodgy areas! I also think we're getting an ace response off the audience and just need to make sure we keep up the amazing energy levels!
Westerhope people a huge well done on your first dance out! I know you only did it twice tonight but it is already looking so much neater an confident than you did before. You really look like you know what you're doing (even if it doesn't feel like it yet!) and I think with some gritty details work its going to look really really good. Well done to Rachel for whipping the dance into shape again :-)
Look forward to hearing what we made, thanks to ffion for organising, Sue for tommying despite the bad voice and Al the collectors throughout.
Also - what did people think of will the box player? I thought he was really good and basically said I'd talk to Kate about if she'd be interested in having him around for dert. Obviously we are not obliged to follow this through, and even if we did he might not be free, if you have any points particularly positive or negative please pass on!
See you on Monday!
Becky x
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Hello,
For the crawl tomorrow (not today as I erroneously briefly put on facebook!) let's meet at the Crown and Cushion on Westminster Bridge Road ready to dance at 7.30pm. It's the Irish one that does Thai food. From memory there aren't that many toilets so better get changed one by one.
Becky, there are a few pubs which are relatively large or have two rooms so might be possibilities for two dances. We might have to do that anyway as several pubs said they would be busy with football/pay day but we'll see what happens.
Ffion x
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Hi All,
We have a crawl coming up on Thursday around Waterloo-ish - so look out for
further info from Ffion.
Date for your diaries - the lovely Ru is coming to do a stepping practice
with us on 6th February, to help us all get better at stepping and make
sure we're all consistent. Please do try to make it, I think everyone who
was there for it last year found it really helpful.
DERT - just a quick one. I know I've been bugging you all a lot about
trains lately, so thank you so much for all the responses. Could I just ask
those of you who haven't yet filled out the approx time of day you would be
willing to / like to travel on the Friday night out on that
spreadsheet/email me about it (sorry about the horrendous permissions
thing!) then we can start grouping up. Thrales will also be taking the
train (apparently quite a few during the day), so we can form groups with
them as well, which should give us a bit more flexibility.
See you on Thursday!
Thanks,
Hannah
Hi All,
As I'm worried about train ticket prices going up soon, I want to start
buying up tickets. At the moment the only ones it makes sense to buy are
the 2 2-together ones as I need one more person to go into a group save
with Laura and Reesha. If anyone wants to buy their own tickets, feel free,
just let me know so that I don't need to worry about you. I am going to
purchase the first round of tickets tomorrow morning, so if you would like
me to get yours please fill the spreadsheet in. I think a couple of people
have had problems accessing it (I have no idea why it isn't working how I
want it to - sorry about that!) - so if you are having trouble, please just
email me the info and I'll add it in.
Accommodation - Again, this is going fast (I wonder why...). there are
apparently 3 double rooms and 3 twin rooms in the ibis (the cheapest of the
ones which Katherine has a discount for) which will cost £35 per person
(assuming 2 sharing), Katherine thinks she may be able to add one or two
more rooms to this. Though this could have changed by now. From the looks
of it, this might not be quite enough for all of us, so I have been trying
to look into other options as well. Mostly it's a bit on the pricey side,
including the hostels which are between £35 and £50 anyway - so it doesn't
exactly look cheap.
Thanks,
Hannah
Hello all,
Kate isn't at the next practice so we are currently without music. We normally manage a certain amount without music and Ffion filling a little in on whistle (thankyou!)
Hannah is it possible to see if Martin is available? As music isn't needed all the time it would probbaly be fine if he just came for a little while (start or end) so he isn't stood about doing nothing for a lot of it?
Or if anyone else has any bright ideas please let me know!
Becky x
Thanks all. I've emailed Customs and Exiles, but if they aren't available will try the more local teams.
X
On 19 Jan 2017 7:17 pm, Hannorah Lee <hannorah.lee(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
Um, how could you overlook The Dilke's crew?! 😜
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On 18 Jan 2017, at 12:36, Laura Smyth <laura_marie_smyth(a)hotmail.com<mailto:laura_marie_smyth@hotmail.com>> wrote:
Hello all (this may be one for Katherine actually),
I'm trying to organise some dance spots for my Histories of Morris conference in March. I want to book a GOOD North West side. I know Earlsdon, but are there any others more local to London?
And if you happen to know of any local border morris sides that don't black up, then that would be great too(!!!)
Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks in anticipation.
Laura x
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