1. Change of area for next crawl2. Motley Morris and Greenwich Morris dance out in Greenwich- 17th June3. Sunday 29th March- Downes on Tour near South Bank.
1. Please note next Friday's crawl will be in Waterloo, not Farringdon. Ffion is organising so expect pub updates in the next week.
2. I keep talking about Motley Morris wanting us to dance out with them! The best dates for them and Greenwich Morris is the 17th June- this is a Wednesday night in Greenwich- if I could get some responses to that ASAP that'd be much appreciated!
3. Sunday 29th March, this has been on the signup sheet for aaaages- this would be nice to go to, and although we couldn't do the new dance (don't quite have the right numbers) we could potentially do Westerhope! I think people involved in that are mainly maybes atm, so could you please check and let me know? Jubilee would also be good to do out :)
Please please sign up here!https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jm…
Thanks,
Beckyx
Hello all,
1. This Saturday New Danc2. Saturday 14th Westerhope3. Easter practice4. Dancing in Greenwich5. Pay Sue for tickets!
1. So just to confirm, new dance practice this Saturday, 10.30-4 with a pub lunchbreak and a tommy discussion.
2. Westerhope practice on the 14th- this is now confirmed 10.30-4, apparently the bishop needs it in the evening! I've said we could leave a little earlier if necessary but fingers crossed we won't need to.Sinead maybe you want to send an email of exactly who you'd like for this? If the details for who was available are up to date we should have enough for two teams. We'd like the set of people who have mainly worked on it, plus a set to learn it as back up for practices, crawls and emergency competition. Depending how long it takes to learn the second team may get to slope off early :)
3. Easter practice will NOT happen on Easter Monday but Tuesday 7th instead.
4. Motley Morris and Greenwich Morris have come back saying they could do a dance out in Greenwich 10/6 or 17/6 this isn't the date we'd said but if people could check for next week? Ffion shall I put 17th on spreadsheet as closer to standard crawl date?
5. If we got you train tickets to DERT and back you owe Sue £36.95- you should have payment details from a previous email- please get the money to her ASAP.
Thanks!
Becky
RIGHT EVERYONE!
Finally ready to show and tell. I've been working on the design for the TR hoodies, and it's ready to send off for some quotes. Please see attached images to get an idea of what it's going to look like.
It will be the design on the left. As you can see, it is slightly textured (as compared with the design on the right). This is intentional, and should hopefully give it a nice hand-made quality. Unless anyone really strongly objects, I'll be going with the textured. Don't worry about the legibility of the design - it'll be larger than A3 and should be completely legible.
I think black hoodies with blue print is the way to go. Is everyone happy with the shade of blue?
Then, so that the logo is in-keeping, I've drawn that out too. I hope people don't mind that I've changed the font so it is similar to that used on the back of the hoody.
As for the hoodies, depends on where we get them done, but do people want fitted womens hoodies, or baggier ones?
That's all for now. I hope you like the design. Apologies for not getting this done sooner, and because of time probably means I won't be able to make any serious changes in time for DERT. But if there is something major, let me know ASAP!
Laura x
Hi all,
Simon was very kind to film three of our dances on the Thursday crawl and he's put them on our youtube channel as unlisted. Here are the links:
New dance 1: http://youtu.be/QMre7fX53II
New dance 2: http://youtu.be/l_u7gnbReo8
Westerhope: http://youtu.be/XOIYQfu2YIA
As I said on Thursday - lots of good stuff, lots to work on!
For the next few weeks I'd like to try and organise the practices as follows:
1) Stepping, particularly focussing on Westerhope and double. We'll get the iPad out again soon and do some comparison videos.
2) Work in new dance / Westerhope sets.
3) Business.
4) Double (if possible, two singles if not) Jubilee.
5) Tumbling for those who are learning. I believe this is Becky, Laura S, Reesha, Hannorah and Laura W. Anyone else? The rest of us can do extra Westerhope or stepping work.
6) Dance through new dance / Westerhope.
On Saturday we'll finishing working through the points on the spreadsheet so we know exactly what we're aiming for with each figure. We haven't decided yet what we're doing about timings for the day but I'd like to suggest that we have a lunchtime discussion about the Tommy routine. Sue is a great Tommy and is getting more and more confident and commanding all of the time! She's got several lines she uses on every crawl, but if anyone has ideas for Tommy moves, lines or jokes please bring them on Saturday or email them through before then.
See you later,
Ffion x
I was so disappointed with our collection on Thursday because we didn't seem to collect very much in any pub. But I couldn't have been more wrong.
I've just reluctantly counted it and I'm astonished! We made £131.91 plus several Czech Korunas, Euros, UAE and Caribbean coins, which is absolutely fantastic. Well done, Hannorah! You were closest with £53 😄😄😄
By way of comparison, we made £78 and £87 on our last two tours of Holborn.
Well done everyone and a special thank you to everyone who collected so successfully, as well as Hannorah and Janet for making all the arrangements.
S x
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Awesome! Well done everyone. Those two new dances must have looked slicker than we thought!
Laura x
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Subject: [Tower Ravens] Thursday's crawl
I was so disappointed with our collection on Thursday because we didn't seem to collect very much in any pub. But I couldn't have been more wrong.
I've just reluctantly counted it and I'm astonished! We made £131.91 plus several Czech Korunas, Euros, UAE and Caribbean coins, which is absolutely fantastic. Well done, Hannorah! You were closest with £53 😄😄😄
By way of comparison, we made £78 and £87 on our last two tours of Holborn.
Well done everyone and a special thank you to everyone who collected so successfully, as well as Hannorah and Janet for making all the arrangements.
S x
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Well done everyone on a great crawl this evening. We did 4 Westerhopes - all with successful backlocks - plus lots of new dances. There were lots of good points in both dances, and also lots we can work on before DERT! Thanks to Hannorah and Janet for another well organised route.
Hope you all have great weekends and see you on Monday.
Ffion x
Hi all,
I hope you're well and looking forward to the crawl on Thursday. I'm really hoping we'll be able to do both the new dance and the full Westerhope. I've slightly lost track of who's been learning what in Westerhope but here's how I think it will pan out:
New dance: 1) Ffion & Jo, 2) Lindsey & Laura, 3) Becky, 4) Hannorah & Reesha, 5) Katherine
Westerhope: 1) Ffion, 2) Janet, 3) Becky & Lizzie 4) Reesha, 5) Katherine
Please let me know if I've got anyone's position wrong! If we're going to any big pubs and if we have spare practice time (which I think is unlikely) we could also try a double Jubilee:
1) Jo & Katherine, 2) Janet & Laura, 3) Lindsey & Becky, 4) Reesha & Lizzie 5) Ffion & Sue, T) Hannorah
See you later!
Ffion x
Hi everyone,
Please see the details of DERT travel from Ken's email below- we maybe need to discuss everyone having groups of 3 to definitely travel with home but don't think that should be too bad :)
Thanks!Becky
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Hi all,
Trains have been booked.
We have got a fairly good del in my opinion, 34% off for everyone which is equivalent to everyone having some sort of railcard.
It works out at £36.95 per person for an open return leaving Paddington on the 13:28 train which we have allocated seats booked.
For the return journey all we need to do is travel in groups of 3, so everyone getting a train of their choice will need to find a couple of buddies so that the group discount still applies.
Ken
