Hi All, Fun fact to brighten your Wednesday - I have just found out that we are getting a total of 2 hours more daylight now than we were at Christmas! 1. Crawls 2. Coming up 3. Sign-ups (please read!) 4. DERT trains 1. Last Thursday we raised a whopping £205.22, AUS$5, 1 euro cent and a button! Awesome job everyone! (Also I now need to start guessing something that isn't a button now we have finally collected one...) The last crawls before DERT have now been decided - 14th March will be a Westerhope Crawl and 16th March will be Piccadilly, so as to make sure that both can be danced out. (obviously if you are dancing in one, you don't have to come to the other one - unless you want to or are a musician...) 2. Our next event is the crawl with Silver Flame on 17th Feb - I'm just finalising timings with them and will let you know, but broadly - dancing in Stratford on Avon, then going to Leamington Spa and dancing some more and having some dinner. I think most people would like me to book them a ticket from London and back with the exception of Emma - so I'll sort as soon as I am able. 3. Apologies for my little sign-up sheet whine on Monday - but it really is important for making sure we can go dance places. Please check the sign-up sheet for *all* events coming up (No is a completely acceptable answer - as are Yes and Maybe, the latter less helpful, but I will accept it as an indication that you have at least looked at stuff). I basically just need an indication as to whether these can be done, as with all the No-replies there is still the possibility that it could be done if they all happened to be Yes... but equally may quite likely be a No. Sign-up sheet below. Events include: Osset Beer Cart 1-3 June Sandwich Folk and Ale 7-8 July Bridport Folk Festival 27-29 July Croydon Night of Dance 21 Aug Faversham Hop Festival 1-2 Sept Edinburgh I have moved into 2019 as with Sidmouth this year I think it is unlikely we'll be able to do it. 4. As some people have bought their own train tickets for DERT and we don't yet know what we will be subsidising, the fairest way to deal with this for now is for those of you that I have bought tickets for to pay me back and then if there is a refund available, Sue will pay these out of the Ravens account. I'll be in touch shortly regarding how much you each owe me for trains and with my bank details. Accommodation has been paid for out of the Ravens account. https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4… Happy Wednesday. Hannah ☺