Photo Gallery – 2018
For the story behind the photos read the Posts from 2018
Oxford Folk Festival
Sat 21 Apr, Oxford Folk Festival – at the Botanical Gardens
Just like young salmon
Our 2018 musicians
Shooting in Bonn Square
More shooting in Bonn Square – where’s the stick?
At day end – survived the first dance out of 2018!
Fisherman’s Cottage
Thurs 10 May, Fisherman’s Cottage, Reading, with Rockhopper and Windsor Morris
Spotty dogging
A twilight Fairies
Brighton Day of Dance
Sat 19 May, Brighton Day of Dance…
…3 by 3 to start
A fortuitously striped pole
Outside the Basketmakers…
.. a brave Base over Apex
Cavalier at The Ivy, Ship Street…
… with added venom
Coconuts to finish
End of the day, efforts taking their toll
End of the day, efforts taking their toll
Abingdon Mayor Making day
16 June, Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers Mayor Making day…
… with 4 teams taking part
Highland Mary in the precinct
End of HM
Princess Royal in the Market Place
Ah, there’s Sue!
Attentive watchers – or start of 2 by 2?
Why John, your eyebrows do flutter so charmingly
Evening relaxation in the Long Gallery of Abingdon Abbey
Warwick Folk Festival
Sat 20 Jul, Warwick Folk Festival, dance spot in the grounds of Warwick Castle
End of Dance of Chance
Freshly harvested nuts for Warwick
Team line up – except for ‘and Roy’
First good point for a long time
Mazurka outside the Rose and Castle
And lo! Tom’s face shall be suffused with joy…
The start of the procession (and of the rain)
The end of the BB bit
Back at Warwick School, we’re forced to do Knees Up under cover
The Arena stage – great place to perform
BB pizza evening under cover outside Myton school
Lee, why are you frightening poor Florent?
An ebullient Paul
Guess who’s in the portaloo?
Sunday, and it’s CatMan(ny)
BB Boy Band! & Wallingford Bunkfest
18th Aug, the BB boy band turn up for their cover shoot
1st Sep, Wallingford Bunkfest – Paul leads 2 by 2!
The sticks!
Highland Mary
Princess Royal at the Boathouse…
… where you have avoid stepping too far back
Ditto for Feet Up
Sorry! It’s Knees Up
Say oops upside your head, say oops upside your head
And finally – Chunkfest!
Morris Fed AGM
Sat 22 Sep, Morris Fed AGM weekend Day of Dance in London
Outside the Waterloo Tap, near Waterloo Station …
… Princess Royal …
… a constrained set to let passenger arrivals / departures go by
Along the South Bank, near the Founders Arms
Coconuts
Ben has his nuts in a pickle
Last spot of the day, near the Old Thameside Inn
Paul and St. Pauls
Bunfight
Sat 24 Nov – the 2018 Bunfight – theme ‘On the Piste, an Alpine Adventure’
Los Flamencos de Berkshire
Sultry, Sensuous, Spanish-y?
Wokingham Winter Carnival
Sun 25 Nov – Wokingham Winter Carnival in the revamped Town Centre
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Ben and Charles
The end of Cheesy Bob
Roy’s birthday, surrounded by all his loving children
An unrehearsed 10 man Jolly Jockey – how will it go?…
… badly
Fairies in the gloom
We accidentally found ourselves at the back of the procession, almost aboard Santa’s Train…
… oh no, we’ve accidentally finished up aboard Santa’s train. Still, the local paper liked it.
BB Xmas meal & St. Thomas’s day
Thurs 20 Dec, Santa visits the BB Xmas meal, Paul nowhere to be seen
Sat 22 Dec, St. Thomas’s day dance out, debut for Rhys in the illustrious setting of the Dukes Head car park…
… before moving across the road to dance outside the library…
… and then up to the refurbished Market Place…
… where there was a chance to reprise some moves from the Flamenco routine
On to the Queens Head, where Paul was carefully studying the carol sheet
‘Can you sing ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’?’ enquired one of the lunchtime regulars
Back outside the Queens Head, some serious concentration
Uncle Jerry checking the straightness of the lines
It’s a Christmas miracle! Roy can walk again!
Hello, Mark
It was Will’s last dance out for a while, and as the day wore on, his clothing wore off
Dance of Chance Tiller Girls
And now the ultimate jig challenge, Rhys v Will
An easy victory
Last dance of the year, Cheesy Bob…
.. and relax
Final kit retri from the William Marshall Memorial Tree