Hi all,

Thanks for a good practice last night and congrats to Rhona and Laura F for getting all the way through the dance.

I didn't spell this out last night so, for those who weren't there last week, here's the plan for the next few months:

Jan = concentrate on getting the beginners ready to dance out on 30 Jan and getting the DERT set slick.

Feb = concentrate on getting the DERT reserve set slick and the DERT set sparkly and shiny.

Here are the allocation of people to sets

DERT set

1) Rachel

2) Jo

3) Becky

4) Hannorah

5) Ffion

T) Sue

Reserve set

1) Lindsey

2) Laura S

3) Aisha

4) Nic

5) Katherine

Learning set

1) Rhona

2) Laura F

3) Jen

4) Carol / Muna

5) Kat

Sinead to teach learning / reserve set with help from Janet and Josie.

And for those of you who like to see the dance written down, here it is...

The dance

Jonty step and clash on 8

Walk round for 8

Walk the dog

Back 8 -> figure of 8

Open ring

Glass

Haymarket

Display the haymarket at front for 8 beats (normal step)

Turn the haymarket around with jonty step

Out into coach and horses (2 and 4 doing special thing)

Flying pixies

Stand in guard

Tumble

Lock

Display the lock

Spin

walk round

Hoops

coach and horses

Fourth corner

Curley

Sue comes into the curley

6 person lock

To see how the tumble show flow nicely into the lock have a look at this video http://youtu.be/YXOaqBtMZPs. Not necessarily with these timings though - it's a slow tumble.

Finally, knickers... We agreed last night to buy a few of the options Lindsey circulated but didn't decide who would do the buying. Can someone please volunteer? The tumblers need to have a pair each so I suggest we buy the first batch in sizes to fit out tumblers.

See you all next week,

Ffion x