2010 Calendar

2010

January
1st	Lamb at Stoke Goldington	Guests of Stony Steppers. Short handed (and late) we arrive and straight into 4-handed dancing on small patio next to the open beer drop at pub! At times, not one of our best days, but good fun overall. Pub supplies hot food, and excellent music session afterwards, but not many of us stay.
February
20th	Weston Favell School, Northampton	Dance spot at barn dance, first outing for Dave Barrows stick throwing dance. Did Joseph Baker too. Went ok! (Adrian Dyer, who joined us a year later, remembered us doing this!)
April
23rd	The Boat, Stoke Bruerne	St George’s Day, Good crowd as usual, good weather,
May
1st	May Day celebrations	Brackley Market Place, with Brackley Morris, Aynho and Northampton Morris. We danced well, but the promised tour in morning gradually falls apart. David T looking decidedly yellow,
2nd	(Sulgrave Castle Green Refurbishment)	Sadly, due to horrendous weather forecast – that wasn’t in the end as bad as suggested – this was called off. No great probs for the Morris, but Eydon Mummers’ new Robin Hood play, specially written and (almost) rehearsed, never saw the light of day.
8th	The Bull, Stony Stratford	Guests of Short Tars Rapper, along with Rose & Castle and (somebody else). We dance (out of rain) in huge garage of hotel – good sound and not too bad dancing.
12th	Stag, Offchurch	Guests of Hereburg Morris, along with Coventry Morris Men, who were impressive!
When?	George, Tiffield?
When?	White Horse, Norton	Is this the scene of Lin’s “..awful dancing” ?
31st	Royal Oak, Eydon	Planned farewell dance for Justin & Bronnie as they leave the Royal Oak for Culworth – but they left the day earlier! Did this take place?
June
3rd	Carpenter’s Arms, Lower Boddington	With Brackley Morris as our guests
5th	The Bull, Stony Stratford	- again – this time guests of Stony Steppers. – did this take place?
13th	Canon’s Ashby House	– did this take place?
When?	Avon, Avon Dassett	Any guests?
24th	New Inn, Abthorpe	With our guests this time – Stony Steppers! A good night.
26th	St Albans	Day of dance – did this take place?
July
10th	Fete at West Fardon	Hot day to be dancing on grass with no decent beer! Jane seemed to be upset with Dave Yeoman! Can’t have been that bad as 3 people enquire about joining in the autumn. Back (via a couple of decent beers in the Cross Tree) to a VG barbeque at the Cannells.
15th	Plume of Feathers, Daventry	Some good 4-man dancing in the streets, followed by a curry.
20th	Sun at Kislingbury	A very good night as guests of Queens Oak, along with Rose & Castle, Shore Tar and of course, Stony Steppers. Good crowd, tasty beer!
29th	George, Tiffield	Drop in dance to compensate for our not going on Ducklington’s Day of Dance at the weekend. My memory is of some crappy dancing (by me) in the dark to a few people.
August
30th	Braunston Festival	Warm up for Eliza Carthey! We were dead good – and have the photos to prove it!
September
4th	Wallingford Bunkfest	Not too bad, quite good dancing – and somebody else wanted to join us!
5th	Badby Fayre	Two spots dancing in the street, some of us a little knackered again – pictures in Daventry Express. – Anyone got the cutting?
8th	Lamb at Stoke Goldington	Guests of Stoney Steppers. Again!
16th	Royal Oak AGM	At the Royal Oak. Richard and Lin step down, officers are now: Jane squire, Pat foreman, Ruth moneybags and Kevin postbag. Other roles as before.
17th-19th	Otley Folk Festival	Return visit to this old Market town, with loads of pubs and very good shops! Camping between the fresh smells of the two sewerage works. Not too bad performances over the weekend, although tiring. ‘Burning hat’ mummers.
23rd	Eydon Village Hall	Practice restarts and sadly the number of useful new recruits drops dramatically as various bad backs and lack of any rhythm discovered.
November
11th	Newport Pagnell	Meal with David and Ruth as thanks for support during David’s illness, followed by impromptu decamp from restaurant to Don and Jill’s next door for coffee and drinks.
December
16th	Arnold House, Rugby	Dance for Memcap at their fete then back to Kevin Mear’s for coffee.
19th	(Lilacs, Isham	After years of trying, Jane gets an invite from the Witchmen to their Yule bash, which has to be called off due to the snow! )
26th	Royal Oak, Eydon	Dancing in road (as car park still covered in snow) to Christmas Carols, with Eydon Mummers.