Hello all,
As Sue explained yesterday, we desperately need to make some new kit for both new members and existing who have old, falling apart kits.
Sue lives in Forest Hill - I would recommend checking travel options, fairly easy to get to by train, but make sure there aren't any works planned. We need people who can sew, cut, make tea - all people much appreciated!
Please fill in the poll asap so we can get a first date sorted.
https://doodle.com/poll/abys8aixb8rfcbvy
You can always leave a comment if you know you can only come in for a few hours, or from a certain time.
Thanks!
Becky
Hi All,
Gentle reminder to double check the crawl dates and your availability - the
dates on the crawl are the ones that will be happening (a couple were
changed before Christmas). If you were a Yes if need be in the Doodle poll
I have put you as a maybe for now.
So, onto upcoming events post DERT - please go through and sign up one way
or another to these, some of them we need to get back to by the end of Jan,
so would be good to do sooner rather than later. Goathland looks like a No
unfortunately, but the others could go either way.
There is also Becky's wedding to sign up to - she'll need to know numbers
at some point soon I would imagine, so please do sign up for that too.
One final thing, if you think you might need new shoes for DERT, it would
be worth considering getting them sooner rather than later to give yourself
a little time to wear them in. I've found some here, if they don't have
your size, just find something that looks like it with the same
description. We can then sort out getting resin soles on them - potentially
in bulk. The resin costs £20-25 from memory, might have been 25 last time.
I've found these that look like the current ones and appear to have all
sizes:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/M620-MENS-OXFORD-BOYS-CADET-PARADE-CAP-LEATHER-A…
Your friendly sign-up sheet can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Thanks,
Hannah
Hello all,
Thanks for a productive first week back! Apologies if it seemed a bit full on, the aim of these first few weeks is to get us ready to dance out asap, then we can get onto the nitty gritty.
Special thanks to Fliss and Miriam who didn't get to dance much but were super helpful giving comments. Next week we have no Hannorah, Rachel or Laura so what we're doing will probably be much more mixed up, and we'll need extra people!
I might not be there on time next week as my Mum is visiting (and coming to practice!) but Ellie has keys so clog can go ahead at 7 and Fliss has swords so no excuse not to get started if I'm not around. If I miss the start of rapper can Ffion please lead stepping, if for any reason she isn't there, Laura and Emma can battle it out!
Sue please email Hannah/me your free dates that we can come and sew and we'll create a doodle poll. This needs to happen asap by the sounds of it!
Hannah and Laura are we booked in for the day practices at various halls?
Thanks,
Becky x
First rapper practice of the year *yay*
Tonight will be a gentle push into dert mode. Don't panic, we have a long time to get ready but we have to start somewhere 😊
Absences are Clare and Katherine. I know Rachel is coming so not sure what hannorah is doing?
Remember: clog at 7
See you later!
Becky xx
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Happy New Year!
Hope you all had a good break.
I've now put all the crawls and day practices up on the sign up sheet based
on the doodles that you all filled in (if you were a es if need be, I think
you are generally down as a maybe). Could you all please double check that
I've put you in correctly and add them to your diaries ☺ I appreciate that
you might not wish to go to the crawls/practices if you aren't dancing,
though if you are able to make some, extra eyes at practices and collectors
and encouragement on crawls are always helpful and welcome, so please feel
do go to anything that you aren't dancing in if you have time/fancy it.
There may also be the odd crawl where someone who is supposed to be dancing
can't make it, so we will need spare people as well.
I haven't really looked at accommodation in Newcastle, will get onto that
asap, though suggestions definitely welcome. Our entry to DERT is confirmed
now, providing we pay them. Woop! :)
Don't forget to look over the other events on the sign-up sheet, there are
some we need to reply to by the end of Jan (most of them probably!)...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
See you all on Monday!
Thanks,
Hannah
Hi All,
Please find the long awaited minutes attached. I've included the full
officer reports which I received in the appendices along with the summary
of actions done/not done from last years AGM and the 2018 EGM. These are
separate for ease of reading, but I will likely combine for the final
version to go on the G Drive
As it is probably a bit tight to read this over by Friday (before I go away
for 2 weeks), I am going to very kindly allow you all until 10th Dec to
raise any queries/amendments etc. Though obviously I am happy to have
comments as soon as you have them :)
Summary of actions below.
Thanks,
Hannah
Action Points
RS to pass Westerhope notes to EH to add to to give to FD
Invite Will Allen to come to practice for DERT
Try new Westerz figures
If have figures that you would like to try send to Becky
Tumbles -19/11/18
Clog - Reassess at EGM. Could practice with EW pre-practice. Existing clog
ready to go at 1925
KR to ask Tom R if we can try out some short Thrales swords
Buy some new swords
SC new costume
Kit recall on neckers, pins, ties
HN and SC to discuss kit priorities
Consider DART 2020 and Ed Fringe at 2019 EGM
Day of Dance between DERT & festivals (EH, EW, RAS, BS, HTD)
Check when the first women's rapper dance video was from
Keep eye out for suitable practice pubs
Disaster Recovery (HTD / BS)
Called dance with new figures
Ru to help with stepping 1/12/18
LW to liaise with crawl organisers about new places - day trip?
17th Dec Xmas party?
EW to investigate houses for Whitby
Ok. After much deliberation I think the best thing is to have westerhope on the 27th Jan and piccadilly on the 3rd.
Let me know asap if there are any issues with this.
There would be no practice on the 26th. Sorry for so much deliberation!
Becky
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Hello all who have come back to me speedily. Just to mention there are question marks over a couple of crawls now, I'll get these sorted asap.
17th Jan may be the 24th Jan.
21st Feb may be the 22nd Feb.
Any other issues with availability, please let me know asap.
Thanks!
Becky
Hello everyone,
Thanks to everyone who was free yesterday, we had a nice half a practice followed by drinking copious amounts of prosecco!
That's it for practices, so enjoy your time off and we'll meet again next year, Monday 7th Jan.
Plans for next year:
Thank you everyone for filling in the doodle polls so quickly, I'm sorry it's taken me a while to get back to you. As some of you know, Ffion was going to lead on Westerhope but has now been offered a job in Cardiff and is due to move end of Feb time. She was going to dance, so this has skewed the numbers a little and taken more brain power from me!
The plan is still to have Ffion leading for the first couple of months, and then Westerhope will be left in the hands of Jo, probably with experienced helping hands of Rachel and Hannorah (as long as that's ok!). Having not seen everyone in one place I simply haven't been able to talk to everyone properly, but this plan should mean the dance is all planned out by the time Ffion leaves and then it's just a case of neatening it up.
Teams:
Piccadilly will inc. Emma, Hannah N, Laura, Katherine and me. I am keen for there to be understudies, especially as I contribute a dodgy knee!
Westerhope: Rachel, Hannorah, Ellie, Tori, Hannah TD as the main set, 6th dancer yet to be decided. People have various commitments next year so I'm not 100% sure who will be 6th person. This could be the tommy, or a Piccadilly person, or someone who isn't dancing in either set but is coming to DERT. (Clare, as far as I know you couldn't dance with us in Trad as you'll be entering with Warwick??
Dates:
Please let me know asap if any of these dates don't work for you.
Day Practices
Sunday 27th January: both teams (Laura can you check your hall for availability?)
Saturday 23rd Feb: Piccadilly (Hannah N to check church hall)
Saturday 2nd March: Westerhope (Hannah N to check church hall).
If necessary we could have a final day practice 30th/31st March for both teams. (Hannah and Laura check availability but don't book, we will discuss in New Year).
Crawls
Again, please let me know asap if any of these dates don't work. Hannah and Martin, I've assumed you're available as nothing filled in other than a note about March.
Thursday 17th January: Both teams
Thursday 31st January: Westerhope
Friday 1st February: Piccadilly
Friday 8th February: Piccadilly
Thursday 21st February: Piccadilly
Thursday 28th February: Westerhope
Thursday 7th March: Westerhope
Thursday 14th March: Piccadilly
Thursday 21st March: Westerhope
Thursday 28th March: Piccadilly
Martin I know this is particularly intensive for musicians, please confirm if this sounds ok and please check these and the practice dates with Will.
Laura if you can run these dates by Paul to see if he will be able to join us.
Sorry this is so late in the year, please, PLEASE PLLLLEEEAASSSEEE check now rather than later that these dates are all ok, especially if you were a maybe.
Merry Christmas everyone, lots of love.
Becky xx
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Thanks to everyone who came on the crawl! Especially to Rachel-anne for doing such a determined job of organising, despite how busy the pubs were. Also extra thanks to Hannah td and Patrick for their extra shouting!
Big woop woop to fliss for her first dance out 😀
I know there are various people who can't make it on Monday. Who has the keys? Ideally we'll do half an hour clog followed by an hour of rapper followed by the pub!
How much money did we make?
Becky XX
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Hello all,
Simon can be our Tommy next Friday so we'll stick with that (I really didn't want to change it again!). If anyone has any suggestions for a charity to give to it'd be better to have that sorted sooner rather than later.
These are some fairly obvious ones (all homeless charities doing work in London). It by no means has to be a homeless charity, or indeed London based. We could do something to do with refugees or something else which people will relate to?
Centre point
At mungos
Shelter
Crisis
All thoughts appreciated 😊
Becky xx
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Hi All,
Business coming tomorrow probably, in the mean time DERT...
I think we're all sorted in terms of who is going to DERT, but as I need to
book all our tickets this week, I would like to make sure that no one is
missed out. As mentioned yesterday we don't yet know who is doing what, so
if you were someone who was only going to go if you were doing a specific
thing, could you please assume you are going for now please.Equally if you
are a maybe, please also just say yes. We don't mind having the odd spare
ticket as you never know who is going to come out of the woodwork - and it
is so much easier to not use a ticket/find a random person to take it than
it is to get another one.
So - please check the list below, if you or someone you would like to bring
are not on there and should be - let me know asap. Also if you are on it
and not actually coming, please also let me know.* Deadline for telling me
this info is 12pm on Thursday 13th *(2 days time). At the mo, I think there
will be 18 of us.
Thanks,
Hannah
Becky
Ellie
Emma
Ffion
Katherine
Joanna
Hannah N
Hannah TD
Hannorah
Laura & Paul (poss tommying in the double act!?)
Martin
Miriam
Sue
Rachel
Rachel-Anne
Tori
Will
Hi All,
Sorry I'm a little late with the business email this week...
1. Coming up...
2. Sign-ups
3. AOB
1. Coming up... You should all have seen an email from Rachel-Anne with
where the crawl is, please be ready to start dancing at 1930, so be there
1915. Rachel-Anne has a table booked in the Angelic from 7pm. We decided on
Monday to collect for Centrepoint, a homeless charity that works with young
people. I think Katherine was going to contact them via social media, and
we think their offices are near Tottenham Court Road if there was to be any
official bucket collection.
Monday - I believe the plan is practice for the first half and then an
early trip to the pub!
2. Sign-ups. You should all now have checked my email about DERT (deadline
for changes of info to me passed 4 mins ago), I'm going to finish off our
registration later this afternoon. I'll start figuring out transport and
accommodation soon (though any suggestions for the latter welcome!)
We had a couple of new invites: St Albans Folk Festival 29th June (week
before Kimpton) - seemed as though there was some interest, so this is
going on the sign-up sheet (I've just heard that Flook will be playing
there this year as well). Please note that as a team if we are to do one of
this or Hammersmith, then we should be going to the Hammersmith event - we
can do both though!)
Northwood Morris DoD - which i shall decline.
Ossett Beer Cart, I am going to decline as well, as we don not have enough
people to do this.
I promised not to bug you about sign-ups until the new year, so I won't,
but they are there and will be over Christmas, should you be in need of
something to do at any point. (There are one or two we will need to deal
with by end of Jan.)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
3. AOB - Emma sent an email about the Whitby house, not urgent, just if you
didn't get it and were expecting to please let her know.
Thanks,
Hannah
Hi everyone,
Here are the Angel to Highbury crawl dets for Friday -
The Angelic - table booked for 7pm. Be ready to dance by 7.30
The Nags
The Islington
The Steam Passage Tavern - we have to be there before 9pm because of live
music after.
The Kings
The Library
The Hen & Chickens (maybe, but very likely)
other maybes we could hit on the way up - Wenlock & Essex, The Kings Head,
Brewhouse.
We're collecting for Centre Point, I don't know if we'll have any buckets,
but bring tankards in case!
Thanks,
R-a x
Hello all,
Afraid I'm I'll so won't be around tonight, sorry! Other absences are hannorah and Laura, although Laura depends on a flight getting in.
Clog can't happen as ken will be getting the keys to you at 7.30 (sorry!)
Practice is probably best led by Katherine/Rachel as they are most used to teaching.
Crawl is this Friday. We have Martin, Hannah, pat, Miriam supporting, Becky, Hannah td, Rachel Anne, Rachel and fliss. Simon Vaughan will be Tommy.
Therefore we'll do lots of jubilee! 5 person ending therefore please check people are happy with these, or I'd there are any other alternatives.
1. Rachel or me
2. Hannah, Rachel Anne or fliss
3. Me, Hannah or Hannah td
4. Hannah n? Probably me lol
5. Rachel Anne or Rachel
We could probably do westerhope if someone can master 4 today and fliss 6. I know that's not ideal, I'd had it in my head I could do 4 but I'd need a run through.
Sorry for not being around tonight. Please make sure someone is there at 7 to have the keys and swords from ken
Thanks,
Becky
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Hello everyone,
Absences: Hannah, Martin, Laura, Tori, Rachel, Hannorah, Jo and Rachel-Anne (we have Nikki for music).
Clog at 7, we will be learning the new dance. Hopefully now we've decided this will have slightly faster progress and can then do 5 minute run through at 7.25, so anyone who just wants to come for that please do! Rachel-Anne I know you weren't sure about the new dance, if you didn't want to learn that one would you mind running through the existing one with Fliss and Clare? Obviously if you'd rather learn that's absolutely fine!
Tumbles: ideally give Rachel-Anne and Miriam another go. Ellie I know was interested as well!
Christmas crawl: next thing we will do out. With so few of us it should be fairly simple, with some minimal swapping most of us will be doing lots of dancing of Jubilee. I'm waiting to hear from Simon re. tommying, very much fingers crossed he can make it. If not I'll do a final double check of dates, but I'm pretty sure 14th if the best bet. I'll do a quick check of numbers for this with people to make sure they're happy but don't think we need to make it the focus. We have a whole host of people who can't make this week so we'll try and make the most of the people we have 😊
Thanks,
Becky
Hi all,
To confirm, for next Friday I have me, Katherine, Ellie, Tori, Emma, Rachel-Anne and Hannah TD (Patrick playing).
The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU
We've been asked to arrive 30 minutes early, I'm not sure if this is prior to the gig or our slot, so I am confirming. We are welcome to stay for the rest of the gig if we want.
We have two 10 minute slots: 8.10 and 9, I intend to do Jubilee and Westerhope and clog and Piccadilly (if you have opinions on order please let me know on Monday!).
Jubilee
1 Emma
2 Tori
3 Becky
4 Ellie
5 Rachel-Anne
Westerhope
1 Becky
2 Rachel-Anne
3 Hannah TD
4 Emma
5 Katherine
6 Ellie
Clog
Basically whoever is happy doing it - Katherine I'm not sure, but everyone else other than HTD?
Piccadilly
1 Emma
2 Hannah TD
3 Becky
4 Katherine
5 Rachel-Anne
We will be going through these numbers on Monday, if anything sounds impossible please tell me asap.
Thanks,
Becky
Hi all,
Here is the list of pubs for Thursday’s crawl starting in Russel Square and Finishing in Holborn:
Marquis Cornwallis
The Lamb
The Perseverance
The Queen’s Head (maybe)
The Enterprise
The Old Nick
Bountiful Cow
Holborn Whippet
Thanks,
Ellie
Hi all,
Having checked out where the theatre is (7 minutes walk from my work) would
like to extend the invitation to meet at my office - after work on Friday
people hang around and drink and play video games. Can't promise cider but
there'll probably still be beer and there's a Sainsbury's across the road,
and we have many loos that people could change in. The address is building
4, 2 Old Street Yard, it's right next to Old Street Station.
Let me know if you'd be interested :)
Hannah
Hello all,
I have confirmed Kimpton as we now have enough people to say yes and they were chasing for an answer. I know this probably effects people's responses to the event a week later (Hammersmith) if you could update that one it will be very helpful!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Thanks,
Becky
P.s. don't forget to say if you can make my wedding 😊
Hello all,
Having stared at the numbers for a while it looks like the Friday 14th is the best date for us to crawl.
I haven't double checked but I imagine this is when Thrales are crawling so either we go to a totally different area, or we ask if they want to buddy up. Although that probably gets complicated for giving to charity.
Emma you actually make a huge difference as we go from only being able to dance jubilee to being able to do all of them. So if you could come that would be great, please let me know!
Thanks,
Becky x
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Hello all,
Thinking ahead to tomorrow 1. absences, 2. clog, 3. Plan 4. kit
1. Absences: Miriam, Hannah and Martin (Patrick coming instead)
2. Clog: Those who are interested in learning a new dance, please arrive for 7 so that we can discuss what we want to learn next. For those who want to just practice the existing dance please just make sure you're there and ready to run-through at 7.25.
3. Plan for the evening. We'll do some more tumbling practice. I don't want to spend ages on this but want Rachel-Anne to keep doing it regularly and give anyone else a go as we had various people vaguely interested. Hannah TD I don't know if a couple of doubles would be helpful? You seem really solid on this now, but please do speak up if it would help 😊
I know we have a crawl, but the focus will be making sure we're happy with the positions for Friday night (as well as more generally for the crawl).
4. KIT: Tori and Fliss (if she's happy) will be dancing out this week. They don't have kit yet so if you're there tomorrow but not out on Thursday/Friday it would be amazing if you could bring skirt/petticoat so we can make sure they have something that approx fits. Tori and Fliss it's down to you to buy the tshirts!
I want the Christmas crawl decided tomorrow. If you haven't filled in already do so now! https://doodle.com/poll/sq4hhwu33kiiuhwn
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See you tomorrow 😊
Becky
Hi All,
I'm just going to forward this one on rather than summarising - our
glorious leader is getting married! Please fill in the sign-up sheet so we
know who we've got for dancing. ☺
Martin and I have already booked a room in the Riverside premier inn as
they were going cheap. Happy to help people figure out transport etc.
nearer the time.
Thanks,
Hannah
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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 at 21:10
Subject: [TR Committee] Ken and Becky Wedding Invite
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Dear Lovely Ravens,
You are invited to our wedding 20th April 2019 which is the Saturday of the
Easter weekend and we would love you to be there with us for the evening.
The venue is the Barns Hotel Bedford MK44 3SA, it's about a 10 minute taxi
ride from Bedford Train Station or, if you're very organised, there are
buses that get you pretty close. You are welcome to join us from 5pm, when
a mini session will start in the hotel pub, after that we will be having
ceilidh, 7:30-10 with dance spots for our rapper teams.
There are plenty of rooms at the hotel, as well as alternative hotels in
Bedford itself, there are also trains back to London until about 11.30 and
they take just over an hour. All this info can be found on the invites
(attached)
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