2015 St. George’s Day danceout, The 8 Bells

First dance out of the year – 2015 The 8 Bells at Eaton – a splendid sunny evening maybe a first Morris with cello!

“If you add the ages of the two youngest dancers together and double, it you’ve got my age!” said a thoughtful member.

“What, 68?”

“Oh no: maybe not!”

Are they younger or is she?

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Oxford City Ale 2015

It’s the evening of Valentines Day, and all the restaurants are full and charging outrageous prices. What are you to do? Go to the Oxford City Ale instead, of course.

As usual for an Ale, there was a couple of rounds of dancing. Slightly unusually, everyone had to do two dances per rotation, which meant a bit of frantic calculation as we’d only come prepared for two dances. We only just had enough people too, so nobody spare to take photos.

Lepton Morris testing stick resilience at the Oxford City Ale 2015.

Lepton Morris testing stick resilience at the Oxford City Ale 2015.

But we managed a very respectable Sidesteps, Constant Billy, Banbury Bill and finished with an enthusiastic Vandals, aided by an interloper borrowed from Wolvercote. Charlbury added a melodeon to the music for Vandals, too.

Charlbury Morris plus an interloper from Wolvercote Morris, at the Oxford City Ale 2015.

Charlbury Morris plus an interloper from Wolvercote Morris, at the Oxford City Ale 2015.

Well done to Nerys for doing all the dances. Pretty good going when you only started in September. And thanks to Audrey and Steve for the music, and for Rolling Home our spot.