Hello everyone,
Thank you for a great practice on Monday! Lots of new people is great for the team but I appreciate requires hard work from various team members (and a certain amount of repetition of Jubilee). We're lucky in that various new people have danced before so are picking it up super quickly, and the non-experienced are picking it up really well at the same time, which is great.
Special thank you to Rachel who taught the entire time 😊
Obviously with lots of new people it means we don't have lots of time to focus on learning anything else. I'm putting a particular focus on getting Ellie through Piccadilly as she basically got held off because of festival prep. This also applies HTD who I know has done the majority of the dance but things get a bit vague right at the end. If attendance continues to be good I'm hoping we can push through with all this and have loads of people up and dancing as much as they can!
Should anyone have any bright ideas about how to move forward please let me know, as you may have seen I floundered slightly when faced with so many people and how best to utilise them.
Thanks again,
Becky
Hi All,
Amazing having so many new people last night!
If you are new and would like to sign up to any of the events on our
sign-up sheet, please feel free to add your name onto anything that you
would like to/can go to. We have a system of yes, no, maybe (and the no
reply) - maybe is a totally acceptable answer, though we will eventually be
asking maybes to make a decision one way or another...
So, it's a little while until our next dance out at the end of October, in
the mean time, we have loads of events coming up in 2019 to sign up to!
Latest addition to the sign up sheet - DERT!! woop woop, we are registered,
but we will need to let them know by 15th December exactly how many of us
and how many guests will be going. This time it will be the weekend of
5th-7th April up in Newcastle. For those that haven't been it is the annual
rapper competition and is a huge amount of fun, so basically you should go.
On a more serious note, if you have any questions/want to know more, feel
free to email or ask about it at practice.
I know we had this one last week, but we only have until the end of October
to let them know - Whitby Folk Week! 17th-23rd August 2019. It's a great
week, so you should definitely all go (and please sign up) ☺
Otherwise, there are plenty of events coming up in the new year, and a few
this side of Christmas (Thrales Day confirmed, thanks Patrick!). I
appreciate some of these are back to back weekends (May/June), so if you
have a preference please write it on there, so we can prioritise which we
go to if we don't want to do them all (which we totally don't have to).
The Winter Solstice event we will say no to, as there doesn't quite seem to
be enough certainty from anyone/super keenness to go seeing as it is the
Friday before Christmas. Very sorry if you were looking forward to it, but
am sure you'd be welcome to just turn up anyway.
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Have a lovely week all and see you next Monday!
Hannah
Absences...none?
We are expecting three new people tonight! This might boggle my brain, ideally we'll split into 2 jubilee sets to mix up existing ravens and new ones so everyone has the best chance. Depending who we have you may be called upon to teach 😊
Clog - please meet around 7 for clog so we can look at neatening and stylising etc.
Kit inspection. If you are not dancing, please have a look at kit with Sue. I'm going to make her judge of if something is good enough/what we can do to help. She should also be able to help with anyone swapping? i.e. if your petticoat is far too big or small this is a good time to try and swap it rather than pinning it all in place. Can't make any promises on who this will work out for. Fliss and Miriam we cna use this as a good opportunity to measure you up and see what we have exisiting/will need to be made.
See you later,
Becky
