The year ended in its traditional way – firstly a Xmas meal on 20th December at the Bull at Barkham, complete with Secret Santa presents, dispersed as usual by ‘Santa’. And then finally on Saturday 22nd December, our now expanded St. Thomas’s Day tour. Jameson had organised for us to start with a carol and a dance at the Dukes Head, which also marked Rhys’s outdoor debut in full (borrowed) kit. We then moved across the road for a couple of dances outside the library, marked of course by lots of shushing. Next, we headed up to the refurbished and more spacious Market Place where we no longer have to dance behind the burger van. Finally the tour headed off to the Queens Head for more prolonged carol singing, and an excellent dancing session. This was to be Will’s last dance out with us before heading off to Australia in the spring, and for some slightly unclear reasons he gradually lost various bits of kit as the session progressed – though fortunately it was a particularly mild December day. Eventually his kit was retrieved from the Xmas tree outside the pub, henceforth to be known as the William Marshall Memorial Tree…
