Hello all,
We decided to bring any sad looking kit in tomorrow to be checked, swapped or planned to fix. We can't necessarily fix things tomorrow but we can try and put a realistic plan together.
Katherine if you can bring the sparkle kit we can look at doing some quick sparkle upgrades!
Also, please meet around 7 for clog where we'll work through making the styles match.
Thanks all,
Becky
Hi all (or at least those coming to the crawl tonight),
The crawl tonight will be around Farringdon, meeting at The Castle (it's
right next to Farringdon station) (also I haven't booked a table but will
try to turn up there early). Other places on the list include:
The Hope
Be At One Farringdon
Bishops Finger
(Probably) St Barts Brewery
Lamb and Trotter (where we're not allowed to dance but there will be cake
and apparently a tab behind the bar for some of the evening for Anna's
birthday)
See you later!
Hannah TD
Hi All,
A few things for you all to take a look at on the sign up sheet - not least
our invite to Whitby 2019!! woop woop!
Crawl tomorrow, hopefully should be some details from Hannah soon...
1. Kit
2. Sign-ups (many many sign-ups, grab some tea and settle in!)
3. AGM
1. Please bring your kit on Monday (1st October) so we can sort out any
shabby kit (Katherine, do you have sparkles please? my sash is feeling sad
:( )
2. We have been invited to* Whitby Folk Week 2019!! *To hopefully answer
all your questions, I've just attached the invite... (apologies for being
lightly lazy there!) It is 17th-23rd August 2019, with the usual array of
spots, 2 parades, potential ceilidh spots, possibly a workshop and plenty
of opportunity to dance in the pubs of Whitby and eat Fish and Chips!
(Exact details to be confirmed...) They would like an answer by 30th
October, so please try and make a decision sooner rather than later. You
can easily get to Whitby by public transport - train then a bus (an
absolutely lovely bus journey over the moors).
That's the biggy out of the way, so:
We have our official invite to *Thrales Day* on 11th November in The
Knights Templar, think we are basically able to go barring the need for a
musician.
21st December the *Winter Solstice *in Rough Trade Shoreditch - we need to
let them know whether we are able to make it or not, so if you aren't a yes
or a no, could you* please make a decision* about whether you would like to
do it or not *by Monday.*
I've moved the December crawl a week earlier - as that might suit people
better - it's now the 13th.
31st May - 2nd June *Ossett Beercart*, near Wakefield. We have been invited
to this again, we went a couple of years ago, it's dancing around the town
at various spots including in the town hall, we also did some extra in the
pubs as well. They have camping on the cricket pitch with access to showers
etc there as well. If you fancy going, please fill yourself in.
I appreciate we now have a lot of possible events in a row in May/June and
that you might not want to do all, so could you add preferences where you
are free but don't want to do all.
6th July - *Kimpton Folk Festival*. We were invited last year but due to a
lack of public transport declined. However they are super keen for us to go
and have offered to transport us back to the nearest station (Harpenden) to
make sure we would be able to get home afterwards! Think last year it was
to do a couple of spots and possibly a workshop.
*Ilfracombe Morris Festival *13-14th July, dancing on the seafront and
harbour. Free camping and free lunch any day you dance. I suspect this is
unlikely given it is a morris thing and a bit of a way away, but it is in
beautiful Devon (not biased at all!). Apparently you can get to Ilfracombe
after work... 1803 train to Exeter, train to Barnstaple and then a bus
arriving at 2305
Wow, what a lot of invites!! (We've also been invited to apply as a busking
side at Chippenham, however this clashes with Goathland...)
3. As per usual, our *AGM* will be the day after Thrales Day - 12th
November. Please fill yourselves in as we need to make sure we have enough
people to hold it. For those that haven't been before, there usually plenty
of nibbles and drink to smooth the decisions along, if a Tower Ravens AGM
alone doesn't sound exciting enough to tempt you along :)
I've probably forgotten something, with all the invites we're getting at
the mo, but have a good week and please take a look at the sign-up sheet:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Hopefully you have all successfully made it to the end of this massive list
of things, if you have any questions about any of the events, please let me
know and I will do my best to answer them!
Thanks,
Hannah
Hey Ravens
If you still owe money for guests you brought to Bromyard, could you please pay £47.50 per guest into the Ravens account asap (see previous email for bank details if necessary) AND please drop me a quick to let me know you have.
If you still owe money to Hannah for Sidmouth guests, please reimburse her asap.
If you need to claim expenses from the Ravens' account, please let me know by email. eg Rachel-anne for masks, photo album etc? Glitter maybe? Anything else?
re travel reimbursement for recent events, could you please copy the following chart, fill it in and return to me asap? I need to calculate how much we can afford to subsidise and I need everyone's expenses before I can do that. Hopefully we'll be able to cover half of travel expenses but I need to be sure before I start paying out anything.
NB we only subsidise taxis when no public transport is available, e.g. Bromyard on Sunday.
If you drove, just tick the box and I'll try to come up with a suitable amount, probably equivalent to what the majority paid for public transport.
Cheers everyone
S x
Sidmouth travel
Faversham travel
Bromyard travel
Train
Bus
Taxi
Car
Hi all,
Absences: Katherine and Rachel.
As far as I know every one else is back?
Ideally we'll be prepping for the crawl as well as getting new people more confident.
I suspect I might end up leaving work stupidly late again but ideally we'll do clog at 7ish. Might as well keep it going along. I mentioned this is something we need to discuss at the AGM, but if people had any ideas about how they'd like to proceed these earlier times are a good chance.
Thanks,
Becky
Hello all,
Just to confirm that hannah td and Anna are arranging the crawl on Thursday so can go ahead. I'd suggest it finish promptly as I know rachel-anne is having her induction that week and is only coming because without her we don't have a team.
Try not to get stuck at Annas thing. Or speed through some dances and then end at hers?
Anyway, definitely going ahead on Thursday :-)
See you on Monday!
Becky
Hello all,
As you know the September crawl has very minimal numbers and we weren't sure who'd organise it.
Last thing I knew Hannah TD was free but not keen on going by herself having not done it before. Anna has sent me a list of pubs she went round before and very kindly offered to help with organising. Hannah would you still be ok to do it with some company? If so can you let me know and be in touch with Anna? She's away this week coming but will be back the week of the crawl.
Should it all go really wrong and we can't crawl we're still invited to go to her birthday for drinks and cake in the pub!
If this looks like it won't work please let me know asap and I'll set up a doodle poll to figure out an alternative day that week.
Thanks,
Becky xx
Hi All,
Sounds like you had a great practice with the new people on Monday, sorry I
couldn't be there - but have no fear, business is here! There are a couple
more new people who would like to join from the sounds of it - they will be
coming 1st October.
Thanks everyone for efforts at Bromyard, was a lovely weekend and we did
our first workshop! :) Hopefully you're all recovering nicely after it...
1. Upcoming events
2. Sign-ups
1. Based on the sign-up sheet, I'm assuming that we will not be going to
Laura's community festival - sorry Laura, maybe next time! So our next
thing will be the crawl on 27th September, which is looking pretty strong
numbers-wise. I'll leave the lovely crawl organisers to decide in the next
couple of weeks who and where it will be.
2. Sign-ups still one or two crawls this year with a few no replies.
Otherwise we have the invites for Dance on the Moor, Goathland (25-27th
May), Wimborne Minster (7-9th June), Evesham (21st-23rd June). New invite
that was mentioned the other day is the York Festival of Dance September
2019, I have had confirmation that we can go and dance in pubs and just
join everyone else for the procession and show case spot (as long as they
get some of the collection!) we can go for one day or both.
As we'll most likely get an invite to Mabel Day, I've added this one on as
well so we're prepared...
Have a lovely week!
Hannah
Hi all,
Tonight we have no musician and are expecting various new people. This means we don't need much music but we do need some. I was going to bring my bluetooth speaker and play the various recordings we have from Martin and Will. HOWEVER my phone has completely died, as in i need a new one it appears it will never turn on again. Does anyone happen to have bluetooth speaker thy can bring tonight? Apologies this is so late in the day - my phone dying meant i had no alarm so I was late to work and then it's been mega busy!
If not, we'll just go back to good old counting. YAY
Absences: Katherine, Rachel, Sue, Hannah, Martin. Apologies if I've missed anyone else...
Thanks,
Becky
