After that, we spent our November practices developing our routine for the Bunfight. We had decided to attempt a challenging dance routine with castanets, and Charles had agreed to lead the development of it through 4 weekly practices. We were very pleased to be joined at this stage by Rhys Boorman – a very welcome addition to the side – and we finished up with 14 of us doing the routine. Thanks to Charles’s preparations, practices went well and by the time of the Bunfight one or two had actually learned the dance. This year’s theme was ‘On the Piste – an Alpine Adventure!’, and once again it was a great evening, with some highly imaginative costumes on show, in particular Ben encased in a bowl of Alpen, complete with milk – wherever he went a little trail of breakfast cereal followed him. The Diatonics were great, and in the first interval we gave a public debut to our new dance Cheesy Bob. Later on Los Flamencos de Berkshire produced a flamenco dance full of hints of passion, temperament and energy. Only hints, mind.
