It was almost 3 weeks until the next outing on Sat 21st September, in Windsor as guests of Windsor Morris for one of their days of dance. This included dancing at some of Windsor’s traditional spots, including the Windsor Royal Shopping area, Peascod Street, and by Windsor and Eton bridge. At the last spot, Crispin Walker, a fine young dancer with various teams, was somehow hoodwinked into donning Alun’s BB hat and shirt, and taking part in our coconut dance on the basis of around 2 minutes tuition. Extremely annoyingly, he then proceeded to do the dance pretty well perfectly, including capers that put some of the longer serving members to shame.
And then the following Saturday (28th September) was the last event of the main season, the Morris Federation Day of Dance in Shrewsbury as part of the Morris Federation AGM weekend. 36 teams altogether took part, with at any one time half of the teams dancing in locations around Quarry Park while the remaining teams were spread in groups around some of Shrewsbury’s excellent central dance spots in the continuing fine summer weather. Our day started in Quarry Park, and we knew we were set for a good day when Paul lasted all the way through the first 2 by 2 of the day. All the dance spots went well, with good audiences for the town centre spots, especially in The Square, and most of the team were able to stay on for a semi-traditional Pizza Express visit later on. Some were also still around the following day for an enjoyable hike up the Long Mynd from Church Stretton, while Jerry toiled at the Morris Fed Committee meeting – though he probably didn’t get so out of breath there…
