The weekend of 2nd to 5th June was the Queens Diamond Jubilee weekend, with nationwide events and street parties up and down the country. We weren’t able to take part in anything over the main part of the weekend as too many of the side were away doing other things, but on the Bank Holiday Tuesday (5th June), a team got together for some dancing in Wokingham. The weather forecast had been for the weekend’s generally awful weather to continue, but we were able to get a reasonable amount of dancing in before the rain became too heavy. Starting in the Market Place, we visited The Queens Head and The Ship before another final spot in the Market Place, and then back to Jameson and Emma’s to christen their BBQ, bought by us for their wedding a year ago but unused so far. Unfortunately though the persistent rain meant it would have required a blowtorch to light, so we had an indoor substitute non-barbeque instead, much drier and probably considerably healthier as well…..
Then after our annual visit to Avebury to meet Holt for a dance and a sing on 21st June, a small but select BB side (5 dancers plus occasional helpers from TOCC) were at Stratford on Avon on 30th June for the now annual Joint Morris Organisations (JMO) Day of Dance. The small team acquitted itself well, especially in a spot outside Shakespeare’s birthplace where we could feel the hand of history upon us – or maybe that was just the lunchtime beer?
