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AGM MINUTES

by Nicola Cairns

Hi all. Attached are the minutes from last night. There are action points do be done by various people. Nikki

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Apologies

by Aisha Foster

Hi All, I've just been checking my budget and I'm afraid to say I can't afford to come to rapper until after christmas, my weekly budget can't stretch that far after having had to buy yet more books etc. I should be fine next month; I've a bigger loan installment and I've a job lined up at home for over christmas, but until the week commencing the 7th January I won't be able to attend. Really sorry this is such late notice! Hope to see you all reasonably soon. On the up-side I'll be returning with.proper shoes! -Aisha Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

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Re: [Tower Ravens] AGM

by Ffion Dean

Hi everyone, As I won't be able to make the AGM tomorrow I thought I'd send some comments and discussion points in advance. My opinions are in red and my suggestions for extra discussion points are in blue. Hope these are helpful and that you have a fun evening. Ffion x > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:16:37 +0000 > From: Rachel Chadwick <rachel.chadwick(a)cantab.net> > To: team(a)towerravens.org.uk > Subject: [Tower Ravens] AGM > Message-ID: > <CAM6MhRhUWxoMX1MDpqNutosskmwoXcDoo=WHvCG8C0jPYd258Q(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi ladies, > We are in the process of putting together the agenda for our first ever AGM! As I said last Monday, the AGM will be on Monday 19th November, in the Wetherspoon's, instead of practice - we'll start promptly at 8pm. I think I will try and get there earlier for dinner, so do join me if you want. Here's a first outline. Do email if you want to add things / have opinions / etc. I realise a couple of people can't make it, so that just makes it more important that those people can express their views on the email list first. 1. APOLOGIES Me! I’m very sorry but I can’t be there as it’s the evening of The Reading Agency’s 10th anniversary lecture. As I’ve been organising it and need to be there to try and tactfully extract money out of wealthy attendees there’s no way I can get out of it L 2. SECOND DANCE: Do we want one? If so, should it be more complicated than the current one (i.e. one "beginners" and one more advanced), where the more complex one could be a potential DERT dance (see point 3) or a traditional dance. Or should we just stick to one dance? I say yes to a second dance – when you’re doing something like Thrales day or a day time tour at a festival it’s good form to be able to do two different dances. I wouldn’t be in favour of a trad dance as our current dance features bits from most trad ones so they’d look too similar (unless we did Beadnell which is a bit dull or Merton in which everything is backward and therefore mega confusing). Another negative about trad dances is that others will do them – if we write our own it’s almost guaranteed to be unique. I think a second dance should either be more complex (and therefore suitable for DERT) or a more open, slower and beautiful one with little stepping (suitable for dancing outside on a Morris style crawl when you have to dance on concrete or flagstone but have a nice open space to play with). If the second dance was a slow, beautiful one we’d probably want to increase the complexity of the first one for DERT. I think it would be nice for everyone to bring the names / shapes of figures they’ve seen and liked at workshops, dance outs like Thrales day and youtube (if, like me, you’re sad enough to spend your lunch breaks watching rapper online!) to a practice and we could start to build another dance that way. It would be important not to forget about the first dance in the process of putting together a new dance as dance 1 will still be our default dance for some time so practices would have to be carefully managed between perfecting dance 1 and creating dance 2. 2a. CHARACTER: I don’t think we can continue leaning on Simon for ever. The character can be an integral part of the team – Clive goes to all Thrales practices and you don’t see them out without him - so this might be a good time to discuss how we’d like our character(s) to act and fit in with the team. In an ideal world do we want one, two or none? Male or female? What kit would they wear? Do we want to use the traditional calling on song / adapt it / create something new? Should it be one of us so we can incorporate stepping and 6 / 7 sword locks or someone external? My personal view is that it would be good to have a woman who isn’t necessarily already part of the team and who is confident, fun and can commit to coming to a few practices now and then to develop a routine that fits well with the dance. No idea where to start looking for that person though! The minimum you need is someone to announce to the crowd who you are and what you’re going to do. This can be someone in the team who’s about to dance but that’s not ideal. 3. DERT: are we interested in going in 2013? If so, what should we dance? I think we should go to DERT 2013; it’s fun, you see lots of other teams and therefore get more ideas about how you want to dance and make new friends, you spread the word about the team, and you get useful feedback from the judges. Working towards a competition is good for focussing the team on standardising style and perfecting technique and gives you something very definite to aim for. I think the standard we’re dancing at now plus another 4ish months of practice means we definitely wouldn’t embarrass ourselves. One option to consider is going as a display only team which means you get to take part but don’t get judged. Personally though I think we should just go for it and enter properly. A potential negative to bear in mind for your discussion is that, again, practices have to be carefully managed in the run up to DERT – not everyone will be able to make the event so there’s a fine balancing act between making sure your DERT team are on top form and giving everyone a chance at taking part in and enjoying practices. 4. REGULARITY OF TOURS / DANCEOUTS: Do we want to have a monthly tour? Should we have one before Christmas? I think we should definitely have them regularly. A least once every two months but not more than once a month so perhaps once every 6 weeks. We might prefer to say every x Friday of the month or we might want to set a new date for each crawl in case that offers people more flexibility. I think it would be nice to have one before Christmas but the date would have to be set very soon to make sure enough of us are available. 5. TREASURER'S REPORT / SUBS: Announcement of current bank balance. Discussion of potential ways to change subs - we're currently losing money on the hall each week, which isn't really sustainable in the long term. A monthly subscription rather than weekly? (This has the benefit of people being able to do electronic transfer or standing order.) Update on cost of kit and how much we owe someone for it? I’m happy to do a Standing Order. 6. INSURANCE / JOINING OPEN MORRIS / THE FEDERATION: Which one do we want to join? For either, the subscription for the year goes in in January. (For those of you who don't know, these are both national organisations who provide insurance for folk dance teams - insurance which we should probably have and currently don't!) Don’t have much opinion on this. As far as I know the Fed is bigger but I had a quick look through the open morris’ list of members and they seem to have a lot of the younger female teams e.g. silver flame, rapper rascals. Don’t know if there’s any particular reason for this. 7. ELECTIONS: Positions up for grabs are listed below. I think the only real limitation is that the Practice Organiser, Secretary and Treasurer all ought to be different people, as those jobs require a good deal of work each. 8. AOB Positions for elections: 1. PRACTICE ORGANISER: Runs weekly Monday practices, decides what's going to happen each Monday. Can delegate teaching etc. as she sees fit, but is in overall charge. I’d like to stand for this position. I’ve been dancing and watching rapper for about 7 years and I’ve danced with 4 teams in all positions. I therefore know lots of figures and stepping variations but, more importantly, I know that there are many ways you can dance the same figure e.g. there are at least 3 different swordhandling styles for single guard. I think this knowledge will really help as we develop from being a team which knows how to get through a dance into a team which looks precise, snappy and confident whilst dancing. I’ve had some very good rapper teachers so I also know exercises and techniques to improve precision within the team. If there’s anything I love more than rapper dancing it’s seeing other people get better at rapper dancing; I really enjoyed hearing people say ‘oh I get it now’ or ‘I didn’t actually realise I was supposed to be doing X on beat X until you pointed it out just then’ when Lindsey asked me to help teach and critique some figures a few weeks ago. If I were practice organiser I’d try and listen to everyone’s opinions about how they thought the dances were looking (I’d try and bring my camera regularly to video us as I think seeing yourself dance from outside the set is a great way of improving), what they wanted to work more on and I’d hope to be able to put together our new dance in a democratic and collaborative way. 2. SECRETARY: Responds to email requests as they come in to the info@email address. Keeps a record of who has signed up to what. Chases people on a Monday to sign up to things if necessary. 3. TREASURER: Fairly self explanatory! Collecting subs and paying the church are the two main things. Keeping money in order generally. Happy to stand for this is no other takers but equally happy for someone else to do it! 4. TOUR ORGANISER: If we do have regular tours (which we should) this person would make sure that somebody is organising each one - liaising with pubs to make sure it's ok. They can (and should) delegate each tour to a different person. 5. WARDROBE MISTRESS: Keeps the spare fabric left over from making the kit. Organises getting new kit sewn up for newbies / kit replaced as necessary. Doesn't have to do all the sewing herself! 6. WEBSITE / EMAIL: Keeps the tech-y side of things up to date and looking smart. 7. CAKE MONITOR: Makes sure somebody is making cake for each Monday! Don’t mind doing this but it sounded as if there’d be stiff competition for this position at practice last week so happy for someone more passionate about cake to do it! Please note that none of these roles are do-it-all yourself - they can (and should!) involve some delegating. Also, none of them (with the possible exception of Practice Organiser) are roles in which the person in question needs to be an experienced rapper dancer. And apart from the three main ones, people can have more than one! Other possible roles which I'm not sure whether they are worth having include: hall liaison (to correspond specifically with St Michael's - Lindsey's currently been doing this) and publicity officer (we should probably have a facebook page, etc. which they can keep up to date). Bag woman / sword fairy: responsible for looking after the swords (making sure they’re cleaned after every use) and bringing them to practices and dance outs. Crawl roles: In addition to organising the route of the crawl in advance there needs to be someone in charge of going to the bar and asking for the music to be turned off, someone (can be the same) to keep an eye on the time and give 5 minute calls when it’s time to leave, and someone deciding who is dancing. NB. Often a squire / foreman / leader / captain is the bag man, chair of ‘business’ during practice break and of AGM and EGMs, main decision maker (e.g. if a festival needs a quick decision on a booking), tour organiser (as described in Rachel’s notes above) and does some of the crawl roles I’ve just mentioned. The suggested role of Practice Organiser here combines some of the foreman roles with teacher but this is often separate. In fact all of the teams I’ve previously dances with (as well as Thrales) have separate roles for foreman and teachers; worth considering whether we want to split like this or do it our own way. Musician: Just a reminder that Nicky said she’s happy to have co-musicians If there is anything on either of these lists which you think I have forgotten, please email the list and add it on. If you have any comments on any of the AGM points and want to get the ball rolling now, please do! Otherwise, I shall see you all soon! Thanks for getting to the bottom of this, Rachel :)

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Fwd: [TR Committee] Fancy coming down to Canterbury?

by Rachel Chadwick

Hi all, Invite from Seven Champs for a possible tour in December (see below). Let me know if you're interested! Rachel :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Child <james(a)wildferment.co.uk> Date: Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:56 AM Subject: [TR Committee] Fancy coming down to Canterbury? To: info(a)towerravens.org.uk Hi there, I'm James, a member of the Seven Champions Molly Dancers. We are planning an evening pub tour of Canterbury one Thursday in December and I wondered if you'd like to come? Starting at 8ish, we'll be visiting at least 4 or 5 pubs doing one dance at each finishing at the Foundry brew pub. Canterbury is 55 minutes on the train from St Pancras and we'd happily pass any collection we get over to you to go towards travel costs. Anyway, let me know if you'd all be up for it... If not, hopefully see you soon. All the best, James -- WILD FERMENT 21 The Borough Canterbury CT1 2DR 01227 463 527 james(a)wildferment.co.uk http://wildferment.co.uk _______________________________________________ Tower Raven's Committee and Info List info(a)towerravens.org.uk

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AGM

by Rachel Chadwick

Hi ladies, We are in the process of putting together the agenda for our first ever AGM! As I said last Monday, the AGM will be on Monday 19th November, in the Wetherspoon's, instead of practice - we'll start promptly at 8pm. I think I will try and get there earlier for dinner, so do join me if you want. Here's a first outline. Do email if you want to add things / have opinions / etc. I realise a couple of people can't make it, so that just makes it more important that those people can express their views on the email list first. 1. APOLOGIES 2. SECOND DANCE: Do we want one? If so, should it be more complicated than the current one (i.e. one "beginners" and one more advanced), where the more complex one could be a potential DERT dance (see point 3) or a traditional dance. Or should we just stick to one dance? 3. DERT: are we interested in going in 2013? If so, what should we dance? 4. REGULARITY OF TOURS / DANCEOUTS: Do we want to have a monthly tour? Should we have one before Christmas? 5. TREASURER'S REPORT / SUBS: Announcement of current bank balance. Discussion of potential ways to change subs - we're currently losing money on the hall each week, which isn't really sustainable in the long term. A monthly subscription rather than weekly? (This has the benefit of people being able to do electronic transfer or standing order.) 6. INSURANCE / JOINING OPEN MORRIS / THE FEDERATION: Which one do we want to join? For either, the subscription for the year goes in in January. (For those of you who don't know, these are both national organisations who provide insurance for folk dance teams - insurance which we should probably have and currently don't!) 7. ELECTIONS: Positions up for grabs are listed below. I think the only real limitation is that the Practice Organiser, Secretary and Treasurer all ought to be different people, as those jobs require a good deal of work each. 8. AOB Positions for elections: 1. PRACTICE ORGANISER: Runs weekly Monday practices, decides what's going to happen each Monday. Can delegate teaching etc. as she sees fit, but is in overall charge. 2. SECRETARY: Responds to email requests as they come in to the info@email address. Keeps a record of who has signed up to what. Chases people on a Monday to sign up to things if necessary. 3. TREASURER: Fairly self explanatory! Collecting subs and paying the church are the two main things. Keeping money in order generally. 4. TOUR ORGANISER: If we do have regular tours (which we should) this person would make sure that somebody is organising each one - liaising with pubs to make sure it's ok. They can (and should) delegate each tour to a different person. 5. WARDROBE MISTRESS: Keeps the spare fabric left over from making the kit. Organises getting new kit sewn up for newbies / kit replaced as necessary. Doesn't have to do all the sewing herself! 6. WEBSITE / EMAIL: Keeps the tech-y side of things up to date and looking smart. 7. CAKE MONITOR: Makes sure somebody is making cake for each Monday! Please note that none of these roles are do-it-all yourself - they can (and should!) involve some delegating. Also, none of them (with the possible exception of Practice Organiser) are roles in which the person in question needs to be an experienced rapper dancer. And apart from the three main ones, people can have more than one! Other possible roles which I'm not sure whether they are worth having include: hall liaison (to correspond specifically with St Michael's - Lindsey's currently been doing this) and publicity officer (we should probably have a facebook page, etc. which they can keep up to date). If there is anything on either of these lists which you think I have forgotten, please email the list and add it on. If you have any comments on any of the AGM points and want to get the ball rolling now, please do! Otherwise, I shall see you all soon! Thanks for getting to the bottom of this, Rachel :)

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Pub tonight

by Rachel Chadwick

See some of you in the pub tonight for dinner pre-practice, I hope. Will be in 'spoons from about 6.30pm onwards. AGM email to follow shortly (sorry for the delay!) Rachel :)

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Thrales Day on Sunday

by Rachel Chadwick

Hi team, Looking forward to dancing with you all on Sunday! The info about where it is, etc., is below. See you soon, Rachel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Searle, Mary-Jo <maryjo.searle(a)kcl.ac.uk> Date: Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:23 PM Subject: Thrales Rapper Session To: "Searle, Mary-Jo" <maryjo.searle(a)kcl.ac.uk> Hello Rapper team, Step dancer, or Mummer. Thrales invite you to join us in our annual Rapper and Step session on the afternoon of Sunday 11th November. This year, our long distance guests for the weekend are Star and Shadow, and we will be having our usual Sunday afternoon Rapper session in The Prince William Henry, 218, Blackfriars Rd, London, SE1 8NL The Prince William Henry is about 100 yards North of Southwark Tube Station (Jubilee line) and also within walking distance of Waterloo Station (Mainline, Northern, Bakerloo, and Jubilee lines.) The pub opens at noon: dancing will be from 12.30, until 4.00pm. Optional music session afterwards. I hope you can join us. Please let me know if you can come. Cheers M-J Musician, Thrales Rapper. Mary-Jo Searle Technician, KCL Nutrition. FWB lab 4.81, ext.4434 Mary-Jo Searle Technician, Nutrition, King's College London 4.81 Franklin Wilkins Building Stamford Street, LONDON, SE1 9NH 020 7848 4434

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Pub tonight

by Rachel Chadwick

I'll be in the Cross Keys 'spoons from about 6.30pm for dinner. Would be lovely to see some of you there! Rachel :)

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Dance Outs

by Janet Dilke

On Monday next we have a Chilts practice and on the weekend of the 11th I will be in sunny Devon. For the following event I will have had a few more practices but I am not sure what is happening with the skirt material. Cheers Janet

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Upcoming events

by Rachel Chadwick

Dear all, I hear there was a bit of discussion last night regarding events, and we thought the best thing to do would be to put details into an email. So: 1. THRALES DAY OF DANCE The Thrales Day of Dance is Sunday 11th November. It is held in one pub, the Prince William Henry, just south of Blackfriars Bridge. The day itself is actually an afternoon event - it starts at 12.30 (so maybe meeting 12?) and goes on until 4ish. It is a very relaxed, cheerful sort of event. There are usually 8/9 teams there, so we'll probably only do one or two dances - this may make taking large numbers of people rather silly, as they'll just hang around and do nothing. 2. MABEL GUBBINS DAY Mabel Day is Sunday 2nd December (why are both of these Sundays?), and is held in Oxford. We haven't yet been given a definite start time, but it's a bit of a tour round pubs in Oxford during the day, probably finishing around 4ish, and again very low key and relaxed. A bigger team for this could be useful, as it'll be a full day of dancing. I believe Lindsey asked for replies by the end of the week, so if you could reply by Friday night, that'd be great. Personally, I can't do Mabel Day but I can do Thrales DoD. Thanks in advance, Rachel :)

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Re: [Tower Ravens] TowerRavensTeam Digest, Vol 6, Issue 8

by nicola.chrisp＠hotmail.co.uk

Hi all I can do Thrales day Possibly Mabel G Day at a push Nic xx Sent from my HTC One X on O2 ----- Reply message ----- From: "Ffion Dean" <ffion_coch(a)hotmail.com> To: <towerravensteam(a)lists.postman.org.uk> Subject: [Tower Ravens] TowerRavensTeam Digest, Vol 6, Issue 8 Date: Wed, Oct 31, 2012 12:02 I'm available for both. Ffion x Check out my folk band, The Foxglove Trio, on facebook: www.facebook.com/thefoxglovetrio > From: towerravensteam-request(a)lists.postman.org.uk > Subject: TowerRavensTeam Digest, Vol 6, Issue 8 > To: towerravensteam(a)lists.postman.org.uk > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:00:01 +0000 > > Send TowerRavensTeam mailing list submissions to > towerravensteam(a)lists.postman.org.uk > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.postman.org.uk/listinfo/towerravensteam > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > towerravensteam-request(a)lists.postman.org.uk > > You can reach the person managing the list at > towerravensteam-owner(a)lists.postman.org.uk > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of TowerRavensTeam digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Upcoming events (Rachel Chadwick) > 2. Re: Upcoming events (Nicola Cairns) > 3. Re: Upcoming events (Joanna Smee) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:10:04 +0000 > From: Rachel Chadwick <rachel.chadwick(a)cantab.net> > To: team(a)towerravens.org.uk > Subject: [Tower Ravens] Upcoming events > Message-ID: > <CAM6MhRgKvXXpMGecYK9hOutsid=Rat2d3r1sspp8xNaSh_3ojg@mail..gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear all, > > I hear there was a bit of discussion last night regarding events, and we > thought the best thing to do would be to put details into an email. So: > > 1. THRALES DAY OF DANCE > > The Thrales Day of Dance is Sunday 11th November. It is held in one pub, > the Prince William Henry, just south of Blackfriars Bridge. The day itself > is actually an afternoon event - it starts at 12.30 (so maybe meeting 12?) > and goes on until 4ish. It is a very relaxed, cheerful sort of event. > There are usually 8/9 teams there, so we'll probably only do one or two > dances - this may make taking large numbers of people rather silly, as > they'll just hang around and do nothing. > > 2. MABEL GUBBINS DAY > > Mabel Day is Sunday 2nd December (why are both of these Sundays?), and is > held in Oxford. We haven't yet been given a definite start time, but it's > a bit of a tour round pubs in Oxford during the day, probably finishing > around 4ish, and again very low key and relaxed. A bigger team for this > could be useful, as it'll be a full day of dancing. > > I believe Lindsey asked for replies by the end of the week, so if you could > reply by Friday night, that'd be great. Personally, I can't do Mabel Day > but I can do Thrales DoD. > > Thanks in advance, > > Rachel :) >

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Re: [Tower Ravens] TowerRavensTeam Digest, Vol 6, Issue 8

by Ffion Dean

I'm available for both. Ffion x Check out my folk band, The Foxglove Trio, on facebook: www.facebook.com/thefoxglovetrio > From: towerravensteam-request(a)lists.postman.org.uk > Subject: TowerRavensTeam Digest, Vol 6, Issue 8 > To: towerravensteam(a)lists.postman.org.uk > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:00:01 +0000 > > Send TowerRavensTeam mailing list submissions to > towerravensteam(a)lists.postman.org.uk > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.postman.org.uk/listinfo/towerravensteam > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > towerravensteam-request(a)lists.postman.org.uk > > You can reach the person managing the list at > towerravensteam-owner(a)lists.postman.org.uk > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of TowerRavensTeam digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Upcoming events (Rachel Chadwick) > 2. Re: Upcoming events (Nicola Cairns) > 3. Re: Upcoming events (Joanna Smee) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:10:04 +0000 > From: Rachel Chadwick <rachel.chadwick(a)cantab.net> > To: team(a)towerravens.org.uk > Subject: [Tower Ravens] Upcoming events > Message-ID: > <CAM6MhRgKvXXpMGecYK9hOutsid=Rat2d3r1sspp8xNaSh_3ojg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear all, > > I hear there was a bit of discussion last night regarding events, and we > thought the best thing to do would be to put details into an email. So: > > 1. THRALES DAY OF DANCE > > The Thrales Day of Dance is Sunday 11th November. It is held in one pub, > the Prince William Henry, just south of Blackfriars Bridge. The day itself > is actually an afternoon event - it starts at 12.30 (so maybe meeting 12?) > and goes on until 4ish. It is a very relaxed, cheerful sort of event. > There are usually 8/9 teams there, so we'll probably only do one or two > dances - this may make taking large numbers of people rather silly, as > they'll just hang around and do nothing. > > 2. MABEL GUBBINS DAY > > Mabel Day is Sunday 2nd December (why are both of these Sundays?), and is > held in Oxford. We haven't yet been given a definite start time, but it's > a bit of a tour round pubs in Oxford during the day, probably finishing > around 4ish, and again very low key and relaxed. A bigger team for this > could be useful, as it'll be a full day of dancing. > > I believe Lindsey asked for replies by the end of the week, so if you could > reply by Friday night, that'd be great. Personally, I can't do Mabel Day > but I can do Thrales DoD. > > Thanks in advance, > > Rachel :) >

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Monday

by Rachel Chadwick

Hiya, Practice as usual on Monday. I won't be there, as I've got to go to Cambridge with work, but Lindsey and Nikki should be as normal. St Michael's at 8pm :) Hope you all have fun! Rachel

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Re: [Tower Ravens] Fantastic tour!

by nicola.chrisp＠hotmail.co.uk

Hi all I can't make tonight either... Sorry! Hope to see you next week. Did you still want someone to help with designs for logo / website etc? Going to be seeing my friend on Friday who does illustration so any ideas send my way... Nic xxx Sent from my HTC One X on O2 ----- Reply message ----- From: "Hannorah Lee" <hannorah.lee(a)hotmail.co.uk> To: "Rachel Chadwick" <rachel.chadwick(a)cantab.net> Cc: "team(a)towerravens.org.uk" <team(a)towerravens.org.uk> Subject: [Tower Ravens] Fantastic tour! Date: Mon, Oct 15, 2012 08:44 Hi All Think the excitement of Friday night went to my head, or rather my stomach. I've been feeling pretty ropey all weekend, so think I'm going to have to give tonight's practise a miss. Hope it goes well. See you next Monday. Hx Sent from my iPhone On 13 Oct 2012, at 12:02, "Rachel Chadwick" <rachel.chadwick(a)cantab.net> wrote: > Well done ladies - last night was awesome! > > Just had the collection results in from Jon, and it totals £186.86, > 27euro cents, 25 american cents, 2 czech koruna, a blue feather and an > old 50p, half of which will come to us. Huzzah! > > Looking forward to seeing you all on Monday. We should hopefully have > a newbie or two as well, so that will be really nice. I can't make > dinner beforehand due to work, but Lindsey and Nikki should both be in > the Wetherspoons from 6.30pm like last week. > > Practice in St Michael's as normal, dinner in the Cross Keys 'spoons next door. > > See you all on Monday, and well done us again! > > Rachel :) > > _______________________________________________ > Tower Raven's mailing list > team(a)towerravens.org.uk _______________________________________________ Tower Raven's mailing list team(a)towerravens.org.uk

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Fantastic tour!

by Rachel Chadwick

Well done ladies - last night was awesome! Just had the collection results in from Jon, and it totals £186.86, 27euro cents, 25 american cents, 2 czech koruna, a blue feather and an old 50p, half of which will come to us. Huzzah! Looking forward to seeing you all on Monday. We should hopefully have a newbie or two as well, so that will be really nice. I can't make dinner beforehand due to work, but Lindsey and Nikki should both be in the Wetherspoons from 6.30pm like last week. Practice in St Michael's as normal, dinner in the Cross Keys 'spoons next door. See you all on Monday, and well done us again! Rachel :)

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Re: [Tower Ravens] TowerRavensTeam Digest, Vol 6, Issue 2

by Ffion Dean

Hi everyone, I was going to send a link to show you where the Betsy Trotwood is but it's below as we'll be dancing there anyway. Like Rachel says, I'll be there from around 5 as my office is literally next to the pub so see you there if you fancy coming for tea. See you all tomorrow! Ffion Check out my folk band, The Foxglove Trio, on facebook: www.facebook.com/thefoxglovetrio > From: towerravensteam-request(a)lists.postman.org.uk > Subject: TowerRavensTeam Digest, Vol 6, Issue 2 > To: towerravensteam(a)lists.postman.org.uk > Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:00:01 +0100 > > Send TowerRavensTeam mailing list submissions to > towerravensteam(a)lists.postman.org.uk > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.postman.org.uk/listinfo/towerravensteam > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > towerravensteam-request(a)lists.postman.org.uk > > You can reach the person managing the list at > towerravensteam-owner(a)lists.postman.org.uk > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of TowerRavensTeam digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Boa (Lindsey Kennedy) > 2. Fwd: Clerkenwell Tour, 12th October (Rachel Chadwick) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:57:35 +0100 > From: Lindsey Kennedy <kennedy.linds(a)gmail.com> > To: team(a)towerravens.org.uk > Subject: [Tower Ravens] Boa > Message-ID: > <CABXWH+qKpSfCa84nrnJ+TvzcBhJ=xXbRo3osZbECTPhAxZV_fg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Anyone got one yet? > > Speak before midday - or I'll order one next day delivery... > > Lindsey >

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Fwd: Clerkenwell Tour, 12th October

by Rachel Chadwick

Hi all, The tour for Friday has now been confirmed, so see below for the full list of pubs. We (Tower Ravens) will probably dance in at least half of them, but not necessarily all. As I said last Friday, meeting at the Castle at 7.15pm. I know that some people will be heading to the Betsy Trotwood first (contact Ffion, who will be there from 5!) See you all soon, Rachel :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dan Sheridan <dan.sheridan(a)postman.org.uk> Date: Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:48 PM Subject: Clerkenwell Tour, 12th October To: Thrales Rapper Members Discussion List <team(a)thralesrapper.info> Cc: rhc27uk(a)gmail.com Dear all, I have a cracking tour lined up. Don't forget, we're being joined by the lovely Tower Ravens. Please be nice to them. Meet at 7.30pm at The Castle, Farringdon (probable) http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/14/14118/Castle/Farringdon Then... The Green (Ben, said yes) http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/17/17689/Green/Clerkenwell The Betsy Trotwood (yes, have promised beer) http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/84/8452/Betsey_Trotwood/Clerkenwell The Coach and Hoses (asked me to email, but have been okay before) http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/52/5248/Coach_and_Horses/Clerkenwell The Gunmakers (yes) http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/11/11582/Gunmakers/Clerkenwell The Horseshoe ("in principle") http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/29/29428/Horseshoe/Clerkenwell The Three Kings (yes) http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/17/1792/Three_Kings/Clerkenwell The Crown Tavern (yes) http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/17/17288/Crown_Tavern/Clerkenwell If there's time, fit in The Bowler (Lee, after 9.30pm probably okay) http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/26/26213/Bowler_Pub_and_Kitchen/Cler… maybe also The Exmouth Arms (I'll ask tomorrow) http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/28/28155/Exmouth_Arms/Exmouth_Market

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Boa

by Lindsey Kennedy

Anyone got one yet? Speak before midday - or I'll order one next day delivery... Lindsey

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Practice and tour

by Rachel Chadwick

Hi ladies, Couple of points for this week's email: 1. PRACTICE ON MONDAY This will be in St Michael's Cornhill like last week. Since it is a nice room with a nice floor which we seem to like, we are hoping to use it as our new permanent venue. :) Practice will be split between running the dance through and doing last minute fittings for a few people's skirts (though hopefully this won't take too long), so please try to be on time. The church is here, if you didn't make it last week: http://www.st-michaels.org.uk/contact.html It's a little fiddly to find, so do ring if you get lost! We will be in the Wetherspoons next door from about 6.30/6.45pm onwards for dinner - do join us there if you want some food. ( http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/home/pubs/the-crosse-keys). - - - - - 2. DANCE OUT ON FRIDAY (12th) As you all know, Friday 12th is our first danceout. Now it's getting closer, here's a few more details. We will be meeting at 7.15pm at the Castle pub in Clerkenwell ( http://www.thecastlefarringdon.co.uk/findus/), and will hopefully dance there too (although that's still tbc). As you can see on the map, it's just round the corner from Farringdon tube. The rest of the tour will be around this area. The exact pubs will be confirmed early next week, and I'll post it once it's known. Simon from Thrales has very kindly agreed to Tommy for us. This means that he'll be wandering around the outside of the set whilst we're dancing talking loudly to the audience. Try to just ignore him and get on with the dance. :) We'll also be collecting in the pubs, so hopefully we can add some money to the Ravens pot. I am expecting: Rachel, Jo, Lindsey, Nic, Josie, Hannorah, Ffion, Sue and Nikki. Let me know if that's wrong in any way. If you do want to invite a friend along to watch, feel free (though I think personally I'd find that rather scary!) - - - - - 3. KIT If you haven't already bought your tshirt from H&M, make sure you do so before Friday! You're also going to need a pair of black tights - 40/60 denier so that they're nice and opaque please. Please bring as much of your kit as you have with you on Friday (wearing it if possible - there may be limited changing space in the pub toilets). If you don't have something because it's not been finished yet, we'll bring it on Friday and you can change there. You will need: tshirt, skirt, petticoat, net belt/sash, black tights, shoes. - - - - - Hmm, I think that's all for now. See you all on Monday! Rachel :)

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Practise T-2

by Lindsey Kennedy

Hi all, Practice is on this Monday! It'll be at St Michael Cornhill Church, near Bank/Monument Tube. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=214385215377759623824.0004… The main entrance to the church will be shut. To get to the practise room, walk down the alley to the side of the church, turn left after the Jamcia Winehouse Pub, and then turn left through a metal gate into a grassy courtyard. The door is on the right of the courtyard, but you should see us by then. The Pub this week will be the Ship again - as normal, as a few of us have some loyalty cards to fill (meeting at 6.30). This is likely to changein future weeks, so keep your ears open. If you've not yet got your tshirt, don't forget to do that, and Jo, Ffion and Sue - bring your £5's for you're petticoats. They're ready! See you all then! Rachel & Linds :) Linds's number: 07940814680

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Exciting links

by Rachel Chadwick

Hi all, The video of the dance is up here: http://youtu.be/lMCOBUiz4SQ (or at least it will be in 34 minutes). It's private, so nobody else can access it. The website of the Victorian themed speakeasy we were asked to dance in on Monday is here: http://leyshonbrothers.com/ Looks cool! We'll have to see if we can arrange a tour around London Bridge area some time soon. Official email will come out later in the week courtesy of Lindsey. See you all Monday! Rachel :)

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PS. Point 6

by Rachel Chadwick

6. VIDEO The video that we took last Monday looks amazing! I'm still trying to work out how to get it onto the computer and then the email list (and having a spare minute to do that in...), but if I don't manage it by Monday, I'll bring the camera along to practice. I think it's really interesting to watch yourself dance, and I know that I picked up a lot of things to work on myself. R

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Practice on Monday *Please Read!*

by Rachel Chadwick

Hi all, Thanks to those of you who made it out on Monday - it was a really good practice and I think we danced really well. Apologies again to Jo and Janet who ended up at the church by themselves! A few things to mention before next week, so this is a long one: 1. NEXT MONDAY'S PRACTICE Next Monday we will again not be in St Margaret's. Lindsey has managed to get us studio space just across London Bridge at a place called arch 897 ( http://www.arch897.com/). It will probably just be a one off, but watch this space on that front. I suggest we meet outside at 8pm. Call me on 07910 836480 if you get lost. - - - - - - - - 2. KIT SEWING DAY If you are free tomorrow (Sat 22nd), do come over and help us sew kit. Even if you don't have a sewing machine, you can be helpful by cutting things out, etc. We're meeting at mine again (N1 4QH), starting at 11am. See lots of you then! - - - - - - - - 3. TSHIRTS On a related note, if you haven't yet bought your H&M tshirt (I haven't, I haven't seen a shop yet this week...), don't forget to do that! See Lindsey's earlier email as to which. - - - - - - - - 4. DANCE Various people were asking to have the whole dance written down last week, so here it is. If there's a particular figure you always get stuck on, try and think of a little summary for it. single guard - (try to get round in four, pattern is 1,3,5,2,4) back 8 - (try to start this when 5 gets to the 10o'clock to 12o'clock position) figure 8 - (remember to come straight up to the front each time) moving fixy spin cramper - (don't step out too far, 3 runs really fast!) nut - (cast from cramper, then make a lock, so 4 and 5 slip the second time) maryanne - (1 inside the first two times, 5 inside the second two times) granny knot - (keep the hands neat at the front) half a curley fourth corner - (snap the swords down in the line, 2,3,4 squatting left leg back) ending - (step for four round the lock, then walk in two to the line, one single (steppity-step), then step in fours until 1 shouts out!) - - - - - - - - 5. DIARY DATES As I think you all know, we'll be on tour for the first time with Thrales on 12th October, so keep that in your diaries. Thrales weekend, which we are also hoping to dance at, is the afternoon of Sunday 11th November. - - - - - - - - I hope that helps! Have a good weekend, and see you all on Monday, Rachel :)

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T-shirt try 2

by Lindsey Kennedy

Having been to h&m and questioned a large selection of people, the code online and the code in store don't match. You therefore need to look for a 'divided basic's t-shirt' at a cost of £3.99. I've attached a photo of the label. The magic number is the one on the top left of the barcodes '081103'. At present I can't find this on the internet. I can't find the internet ones in store. Just keep receipts, and we can always return them if we accidently get different ones. Lindsey

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Re: [Tower Ravens] T-shirt

by Lindsey Kennedy

My plan was to wonder down to the oxford street store and see which ones they had in, and looked nice - and then alter the one we're looking at if there was a better option. If they don't have anything in, we'll have another think tomorrow. Lindsey On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Sue Connolly <connollysue(a)hotmail.com>wrote: > There certainly wouldn't be time to buy something else on 12th! I think > it's too risky because I've had a very similar experience recently that > ended in big expense. (I'm now the proud owner of 4 dog collars I don't > need! - don't ask!!!!!) And they are so cheap that it would hardly matter > if we just kept them for spares. > > I'll have another look and see if I can find something similar but more > stylish. > > [image: Smile] > > ------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:07:10 +0100 > > Subject: Re: [Tower Ravens] T-shirt > From: rachel.chadwick(a)cantab.net > To: connollysue(a)hotmail.com > CC: kennedy.linds(a)gmail.com > > Mmm, we could. Personally, I don't much like Fruit of the Loom, and I > feel that the tshirts are more "comfy/practical tshirts" than "nice > performance wear". I'm still not sure that the H&M ones aren't fine - as > long as they do arrive by the 12th! (And if they don't, there's always an > option to buy something else and send them back, though it's messy). > Lindsey, what do you think? Are we worrying over nothing? Personally, I > say we just do it and buy the H&M ones. > > R > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Sue Connolly <connollysue(a)hotmail.com>wrote: > > We could go for Fruit of the Loom online. They are really cheap and we > know the fit is good because that's what Thrales had for DERT. However, > postage is £5.99, so it would be better to order a them in bulk. > > http://www.buytshirtsonline.co.uk/lady-fit-valueweight-t-shirts-p530 > > ------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:55:56 +0100 > Subject: Re: [Tower Ravens] T-shirt > From: rachel.chadwick(a)cantab.net > To: connollysue(a)hotmail.com > CC: kennedy.linds(a)gmail.com > > > Ah, yes. On second look, they are all available for delivery 8-12th > October, no matter what size you go for. Are we happy with that, Lindsey? > Quite close up against the tour date... > > R > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Rachel Chadwick < > rachel.chadwick(a)cantab.net> wrote: > > Not online as far as I can see. Try again? > > R > > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Sue Connolly <connollysue(a)hotmail.com>wrote: > > It would appear that size 10-12 is sold out. > > S x > > ------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:15:52 +0100 > From: rachel.chadwick(a)cantab.net > To: team(a)towerravens.org.uk > Subject: [Tower Ravens] T-shirt > > http://www.hm.com/gb/product/96768?article=96768-A > > Linds > > _______________________________________________ Tower Raven's mailing list > team(a)towerravens.org.uk > > > > >

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