Hi All, Thank you an well done to everyone who came to Thrales Weekend - it was great and we've had loads of positive comments from various teams/people which is great. For anyone who has missed the social media storm - *we WON the Beadnell!!!* We are now a prize-winning team as of Sunday, and the proud owners of a singing fish trophy. I'm looking forward to the pictures of it swimming around the Thrales trophies Becky... There are/will be various videos floating around somewhere on facebook if anyone feels they've missed out... So, business for those that missed it (and a few additional items that have come in since) - apologies for the long email again - we just seem to have lots coming up! 1. November Crawl 2. Mabel Day 3. Chippenham 4. Sign-ups 5. Bedford Christmas Party 6. V Arts 7. York 1. The November crawl will be in either Stratford or Whitechapel probably - Katherine is organising this and Carol has kindly agreed to play for us, so all good.. 2. Mabel Day - I think we now have enough of us to confirm. They have promised Cake... 3. Chippenham - as agreed at the AGM, I have contacted Chippenham Folk Festival to say that we would be interested in dancing there. We would dance for 1 or 2 days, and if we dance on 2 days, then we get a half price festival ticket (£58) and free camping (not the greatest offer, but it would be dancing at a festival) - the same would apply to any partners etc that we bring. 4. Sign-ups - please say whether or not you can make it to anything you haven't already - this includes the Christmas Crawl; and the dance out with Silver Flame and Earlsdon. Those of you that I added by hand on Monday - it might be worth double checking that I've put your name in the right place as I did manage to write one or two down on the wrong lines when I was doing it (should all be correct though). 5. Bedford - we have an invitation from Fine Companions ( http://finecompanions.synthasite.com/) to dance at their Christmas Party on 16th December in Bedford. This has come through someone Kate knows and she will need to get back to him soon - so could people put some kind of expression of interest or not either on the sign-up sheet, or just reply. Bedford is relatively easy to get to on the train taking between 30 and 60 minutes. 6. Laura S has been emailed about something called V Arts on 10th December in The Courtyard Theatre that we could potentially dance at. I don't have much info about it beyond this: "We are contacting you regarding a traditional dance and literacy evening we are hosting on the 10th December at The Courtyard Theatre. We are looking for 6 traditional dance acts that represent countries within London and share their traditions. Through this we aim to bring unity and joy. Your society would be incredibly valuable to our production and as I am English I am keen to have a highly talented group to represent our cultural dance! Here is a link to our event https://www.facebook.com /events/340335549654158/?ti=icl" Please have a think abut whether this is somtehing that we'd be interested in doing. 7. We decided to say no to the York weekend - mostly on account of it being a long way to go to dance outside. I've since realised that this would probably be the weekend that Bromyard is, which we also discussed going to at the AGM (I will get around to looking into this soon, I promise). Have a great week or so and see you all soon! Hannah :)