The BB annual pilgrimage to the Red Lion, Avebury, for our now traditional midsummer dance out with Holt Morris, followed by some fine singing in another nearby pub. This was the precursor to a BB Dorset Tour, a welcome return having missed a year in 2009. Rob and Mirian had arranged another good itinerary, returning this time to the traditional base of the Giants Head camp site near Cerne Abbas. Saturday’s dancing started in beautiful weather in Dorchester but then hit an immediate snag, with the planned train trip down to Weymouth having to be cancelled due to a problem on the road/rail bridge on the line, temporarily blocking both road and rail routes to Weymouth. Instead the itinerary was hastily rearranged and we drove on to West Bay where we found some good locations to dance and later to swim. Saturday evening had a barbeque back at the campsite before the customary part walk, part slide (eh, Simon?) down into Cerne Abbas to dance to a small but select audience outside the Royal Oak. This was followed by the legendary ‘gloworm walk’ back up the hillside to the campsite – the legend being that there are actually any gloworms within a 20 mile radius. Sunday’s dancing was at the Sir Walter Tyrell pub at Brook, on the edge of the New Forest, where our lunchtime audience gradually drifted away as 3 pm approached, kick off time in the England v West Germany World Cup game. Should have stayed and watched us, shouldn’t you?!
