Caverswall Castle, Anouska and Tim

Unfortunately this was probably our last wedding dance at Caverswall Castle which is a pity as it was a great venue even though the dance floor was very small. Roaming around the rooms upstairs provided a pleasant diversion between dances, although they didn't always offer jenga and twister!

Here are Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

Anouska and Tim's first dance (Let's Stay Together)
Oxo Reel
Goatland Square Eight
The Humours of Scarrif
The Snowball
Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
Circle Hornpipe
Circle Waltz
Waterloo Dance
The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
Postman's Knock
Stoke Golding Country Dance
Shebag an Shemor / Give me your Hand
Simple Longways Set
The Gravel Walks / Crowley's Reel
Polka Off
Circassian Circle

Jenga!

Ashbourne, Empire Ballroom

Bagpipes, kilts, haggis, neaps and tatties – it must be the annual Burns Night bash in Ashbourne again.

The programme for the night.

Behind the Haystack / Merrily Danced the Quaker's Wife

The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair

Cutting Bracken / The Connaughtman's Rambles / My Love in the Morning 

Ashbourne and District Pipe Band

The Gay Gordons

A Highland Welcome

Ashbourne Scottish Dance Club

The Dashing White Sergeant

Eightsome Reel

Ashbourne and District Pipe Band

Address to the Haggis (Warwick Adams)

Supper accompanied by Jonathan and Jessica Whilock on Uileann and Small Pipes

Drum Salute

Ashbourne Fling

Robert Burns' poetry (Warwick Adams)

The Dashing White Sergeant

Pipe Major James Dungavel

Prize Draw

Cumberland Reel

Drops of Brandy

Auld Lang Syne

Awa Hame

Great chieftan o' the pudin-race!

Keele University

A little jaunt down memory lane for most of the band as we returned to Keele for the retirement ceili of Prof Peter Croft (I've no idea as to the significance of the number 7). The food was fantastic and the the old Horwood refectory, or the Ballroom as it's now known, unrecognisable to the alumni in the band (I'm sure Keele is only too pleased to know that I've made such a success of my life).

Here's Collin's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

Behind the Haystack / Merrily Danced the Quaker's Wife
The Snowball
Thady U Ganda
The Gay Gordons
Lucky 7
Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
Nova Scotia
Clopton Bridge
Virginia Reel
Old Swan Gallop
Foula Reel
Cumberland Square Eight
Circasian Circle
The Cock o' the North