Hi All,
You should all have just had an email about the crawl.
On Sunday we will be going to C# Festive Gathering at Cecil Sharp House.
They would like us there by 6pm so we can catch up with Lucy and Sally for
our introduction and sorting tech out. Doors open at 1830 so we definitely
need to be sorted by then. We should have a green room to relax in/leave
stuff.
Our spots are both ten minutes long at 1950 and 2115. I've attached the
programme as well if you'd like a look.
As suggested on Monday for a more festive feel - we thought we could tie
tinsel around our waists on top of the sashes. So keep you eyes peeled for
blue (or silver if we can't find any) tinsel. I think we also thought we
might put Kate in a blue santa hat. So, if you find any, please buy it and
send a whatsapp to the team. (We'll reimburse you for your troubles!).
For Monday - not sure who is available/what people feel up for, so if you
could all fill in the doodle below as soon as you can that would be great.
https://doodle.com/poll/irkfid8k56tnskyw
<http://link.e.doodle.com/uni/wf/click?upn=8dNs8i4ZDyStMeI1Sn5r9JSbK59YEKy2D…>
Thanks,
Hannah
Hi everyone,
I emailed Mind as we decided to collect for them on Thursday. We can have some collection tins if I send them a form. However the crawl is tomorrow so they're not going to be able to send anything in the post.
Is there anyone who can go to their office tomorrow before the crawl? Mind, 15-19 Broadway, Stratford, London E15 4BQ
If not I suggest we just use our tankards and make sure we all know who Mind are and what they do in case punters ask us why they should donate.
Ffion x
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Hi all
I had a less than ideal response from pubs yesterday with all saying they
would be too busy and having tried to get to the bar on a Monday am
inclined to believe them, pubs that tentatively agreed and I think we can
realistically dance in (in proposed order):
The Counting House
Jamaican Wine Bar
The Windsor
Draft House Seething
Hung Drawn and Quatered
Walrus and Carpenter
The Monument
This is technically enough but with no back up. The other usuals either
said no or are tiny.
Does anyone know of any other big pubs anywhere between Monument and
Aldgate that might be worth trying? Or have any other ideas?
Best
Katherine
P.S I had several recommending/asking me to also email? Not come across
that before!
Hello all,
Thanks for all who came yesterday. We've got Ellie (tentatively) all the way through the dance, which is great, hopefully we can work on getting her more sure of where she's going and then dancing out!
We also did some good work on Westerhope, and I'm happy that it is ready for C# festive gathering, with also an outing on the crawl before.
Special mention for the stepping, this was really solid, no speeding up and stylistically all coming together - this makes me very happy!
As I mentioned in practice yesterday, I would like to stick with last year's set of dancers as the main set for DERT. I think it's the strongest group of people to put out in the competition, especially as we're so used to dancing out together.
Unlike last year I really want to push for a different spotlight set - also meaning other people are learning Piccadilly. Obviously we are a little limited by tumblers, but I am planning on doing some work on this, probably in the new year now! I will be talking to people about the spotlight asap.
Traditional - just trying to establish what's happening with this. I think we can have an entirely separate trad set from the main, which would be great. Not only does this give everyone something to aim for on the day it also keeps everyone improving in the weeks running up to DERT. I will announce the team asap.
DATES FOR THE DIARY
Hannah please put the following dates on the sign up sheet for crawls, I'll fill in anyone from the doodle.
January 19th (just main set, potentially shorter than normal)
January 25th
February 1st
February 15th
March 8th
March 15th
Day practices: 21st Jan and 11th March for the main set. As mentioned yeterday the focus would be for the main set but spotlight members would be encouraged to come along if possible, even if it was for half a day.
Hannah can you contact the church re. using it on these days. As it is a Sunday we might be better to use Laura's hall if that is available?
ATM we have no musician for crawls, for those in the loop on facebook did any of them seem particularly good?
For those of you going to Martin and Hannah's birthday have fun, dance well, show those guys how awesome we are!
I'm not here next Monday, Ffion if you could lead the practice I'll send you a separate email.
Thanks all 😊
Becky
Hi everyone
Thanks for such an enjoyable crawl last night and especially to
Laura - for inventing a new and compact route with great pubs
Becky - for organising the dancing so efficiently as usual
Nikki - for playing so beautifully for us at such short notice
Various partners - for their loyal and vocal support
Everyone - for their fine dancing and brilliant collecting skills
Add to that a festive atmosphere, mulled cider, enthusiastic punters... What's not to like? Oh yes - and Martin.
So to the important bit: how much money did we collect?
Answers on a postcard, or direct reply if you prefer. All will be revealed on Monday. The winner will receive all the foreign coins that could not count towards the total.
Have a great weekend, especially Ffion.
S x
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Hi everyone
Great day yesterday. Well done everyone.
I believe it's the festive choral evensong at St. Michael's at 6 pm. I hope to get there because it would be quite nice for us to be represented. If anyone else would like to join me, that would be fantastic, but I realise that most are at work and will probably prefer food/respite before the practice.
So far we have the following guesses re Thursday's crawl collection. Any more? Wouldn't want you to miss out on the valueless cash prize.
Emma £87.63 +
Laura £110.34
Rachel-anne £149.13
Rachel £164.03
Ffion £177.77
Hannah £182.33 +
Anna - great idea to offer to buy our collection of euro coins. ATM we have 34.85. Would you still like to have them? I can bring them tonight if so.
S x
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Hi All,
Please find the draft minutes from Monday's AGM attached. If you have any
comments on anything that I have missed or is incorrect, please let me know
by 1st December.
Thanks to everyone for signing up to things as well on Monday - looks like
there are a couple more things for us to go to now! I'm away on Monday, but
please don't forget to check the sign-up sheet if you haven't already. Our
next event will be Mabel Day on 3rd December. Transport options for this
are the Oxford Tube - takes about 2hrs and costs £14/£18
(discounted/undiscounted) or the train from Marylebone is £16.95 with
either a groupsave or a railcard discount or £25 without a discount and
only takes 1hr. We can discuss these when I'm back on 27th and book tickets
that week as the prices won't change. If you have any strong preferences
please let me know. I personally feel that the train would be the better
option, especially as we'd all get home earlier! Will look into times in
more detail before 27th Nov.
Thanks,
Hannah
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Hello all,
1. clog
2. dert crawls and practices
3. c# festive gathering
Absentees I have for tonight are: Ffion, Hannorah and Rachel - is there anyone else?
1. Please turn up at 7.15 for clog runthrough, we may have to include this at c# in a couple of weeks so please consider if you're happy with that.
2. I'm looking at dates for pre DERT crawls and day practices:
Day practices I'm thinking 21st January and 11th March, plus one more once I have decided on the trad set.
Crawls: 25th Jan, 1st Feb, 15th Feb, 8th March, 15th March. Ideally we'll also have a 19th March crawl but only for the main set so it may well be shorter than normal.
Please consider those dates and let me know if you can or can't make it.
3. For C# I'm currently not sure how long we need to dance for - if we can do 3 sets I'd like the following to happen:
Jubilee:
1. Emma
2. Hannah TD
3. Laura W
4/. Hannorah
5. Rachel-Anne
Westerhope
1. Becky
2. Hannorah
3. Hannah
4. Emma
5. Rachel-Anne
6. Laura W
Piccadilly
1. Ffion (if you can get back in time)
2. Laura W
3. Becky
4. Hannah
5. Rachel-Anne
If anyone is unhappy with any of that please let me know, or if there is anything you'd particularly like to work on in the next 2 weeks.
Our of this I'd like to work on Westerhope with those people (if someone can cover 2) and Piccadilly with Katherine covering 1.
As well as this we'll go through Jubilee with Ellie to get her a bit further.
I'd also like to do some tumbling work if people feel up to it, I'm planning to do this again later in the year/next year so if you miss tonight there'll be another opportunity.
See you later!
Becky
Hi All,
We are officially registered for DERT! woop woop!
Apologies for taking a while to get round to sending this... As you
hopefully know we are crawling around Islington-ish this evening starting
in the Angelic - please be ready to dance by 1930.
Our next thing is Mabel Day! Sunday 3rd - the Blenheim opens at 1100 with
dancing starting at 1200. I propose to aim to be there around 1130 (but
please make sure you are there by 1145 latest). More info on the day here:
Transport - we have decided to take the train from Marylebone station as it
takes much less time than the bus and only costs a tiny bit more. For
trains I have Laura, Sue, Anna and myself. Please get to Marylebone for
0945 as we will be on the 1005 train. I will buy group save tickets for us.
As there are four of us, if anyone thinks they might need/want to rush
off/stay really late, I can book 3 of us on the group save and one on a
rail card - please let me know by Saturday 5pm if you think that you might
not want to travel back with us otherwise I'll just put all four on the
group save. (sory Laura, I think you're stuck on a group save regardless)
Trains back to London are every half hour, so nice and easy!
For the rest of us, I have Emma and Hannah TD making their way from
Coventry and Hannorah driving. Kate are you driving as well (seem to
remember you did last year)?
Sign-up sheet as always is below. Please check over it - still need a few
more people to fill in their availability for our December Crawl -
approaching fast now!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
See you all later/Sunday/Monday.
Hannah
