And now for something completely different

Morris

Wish me luck!  I'm going on my first dance-out with the Ely and Littleport Riot Morris dancing side in an hour.  Eek!  I'm terrified.  I have my waistcoat, I have my hankies, I have bells on my shoes, and sticking plaster on my heels because the shoes still murder my feet if I let them.  But I'm still making very basic mistakes in every dance, and I only know three dances all the way through.

It'll be a disaster!  So if anyone is near March in Cambridgeshire and fancies coming to see us dance in March town square, we're on at 11.30.  Will report back later with photos, if I'm still alive ;)

Somali Pirates

As may be apparent from False Colors, I don't buy into the romance of pirates.  But having said that, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.  For example

http://shewhohashope.livejournal.com/143545.html

April was in March (and so was I).

So, I have survived my first ever dance-out!  Woohoo :)  We were set to start at 11.30 in the market square of a town called March, which I had never visited before.  They were having their St.George's Day fair and wanted some attractions, and the Ely and Littleport Riot women's morris side had been employed as one of these.

We didn't know where to meet.  'In the market square', I'd been told, but I didn't know where the market square was, and the town was much bigger than I thought.  Fortunately, however, we bumped into some jingling ladies in the car-park, so the whole meeting up thing was accomplished with no difficulty.

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