I like a lot of your responses, but you have got #2 wrong :) I would say instead: "The team started because there were no other female teams in London. The nearest South East women's team was Mabel Gubbins in Oxford, which was too far for Londoners to travel. Thrales had held workshops here in London, which women would attend, but there was nothing for them to join in with afterwards. Simon Vaughan (of Thrales) and Kat Macaulay had a list of women who would be potentially interested in joining a women's rapper team, but nothing had happened. In 2012, three friends Lindsey Kennedy, Nicola Osborne and Rachel Sheridan, who had all recently moved to London, decided to see if there was sufficient interest to get a side off the ground. Advertising heavily at DERT 2012 (which was in London), and supplemented by the contacts from Simon and Kat, they held an initial meeting of interest in a local pub. This meeting being well attended, they then set up a regular practice. Thrales lent us some swords to get us started and the rest is history! We have many of the original members in the team still and it is really down to them that we have survived and developed as well as we have." I was considering bringing my camera on Thursday anyway, so I'll try and remember to charge the battery. Can't promise to take good photos though! ;) Rachel x On 6 March 2017 at 13:46, Becky Such <rebeccasuch(a)hotmail.com> wrote: