I hope you all got home ok last night and enjoyed sleeping in your own beds! I hope you're also all feeling proud if what we achieved at the weekend. We did some great dances and came 6th overall in the open class. I think that's an accurate representation of where we're at at the moment and I'm looking forward to getting the judges comments to see what they have to say, although I'm sure we can guess what some of the comments will be!

I've attached a picture of the 'final' marks (as of yesterday morning) and here is a break down:

We came 6th in the open class overall with 502 marks
We were the 4th best new team (out of 5)
We were 7th out of 13 in the open class for dancing with 428 points
We were joint 8th out of 13 for buzz (joint with NYFTE) with 107 points but this was very close to cinquefoil and Warwick 1
Nikki was joint 7th in the open (with cinquefoil) and joint 16th overall (also with Mabel Gubbins). She got 60 points which was higher than 2 championship teams (northgate and maltby Phoenix)
Sue was joint 4th in the open (with sisters in arms, durham uni and Dorset buttons) and joint 13th overall. She got 74 points which put her above championship tommies from Mons Meg and Whip the Cat

So... now it's time to look to the future! There are lots of things we could do in the next six months or so but it would be good to have a discussion to decide which things to prioritise. I therefore propose that we have an hour of dancing next Monday followed by an hour of chat. However, looking at the list below perhaps you think we should just have the chat with no dancing. What do you think? The following are a list of things we could think about doing in the next 6 months - we won't do all of them. Please send me any more ideas you've got to put on the list and we'll discuss them all next Monday.

Learning current dance
Teach the dance to Lindsey
Teach number one to Jo
Teach someone else 5
Get Sue confident at number 5
Work on being able to fix mistakes

Developing the current dance
Learn to tumble
Design TR underwear (that's Nikki's suggestion by the way!)
Put walk the dog in
Put tits in

Other dances
Create new, outside slow dance
Learn a traditional dance

Bookings
Tenterden - update from Hannorah
More festivals to look in to
Hastings - update from Nikki
Set up regular crawl dates
DART (DERT in America)

Team members
Recruit more tommies and Betties
Recruit more members - hold a workshop?
Recruit more musicians

Getting some swords
Frank Lee (http://www.rapper-swords.co.uk) / Jimmie Kilner (http://kjmrapperswords.co.uk)
When can we afford it?

Updates from positions
Finance update
Kit update
Social secretary update
Logo and website update

Do send me anything else you'd like to talk about. The more I look at the list, the more I think we probably should cut straight to the discussion rather than do any dancing. Does anyone object?

Looking forward to seeing some of you at the ceilidh on Friday (more details coming from Nic!) and well done again!!

Ffion x