This Saturday saw us up at Gradbach Mill in the Staffordshire Moorlands for the belated wedding celebrations of Natalie and Nick. This was all supposed to take place in December last year, but due to heavy snow the narrow lanes became impassable and it all had to be cancelled at the very last minute.
Nevertheless, it was a brilliant idea to hire the youth hostel at Gradbach and to celebrate their wedding by having a bit of a jig with their friends. These intimate dances always seem to have a special quality that's often missing in larger, more formal celebrations – there's a real feeling that you are among friends and that everyone actually knows each other!
Natalie and Nick will be off soon to Fiji for three years which explains all the grass skirts, Hawian shirts and garlands of flowers. Emma will be there later on this year, so perhaps you will all meet up again!
Here are Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:
Natalie and Nick's first dance
(Midnight on the Water)
The Snowball
Goatland Square Eight
Strip the Willow
Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
Circle Mixer
Postman's Knock
The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
Waterloo Dance
The Willow Tree
Molloy's Favourite / The Foxhunter / Cooley's Reels
Polka Off
Old Swan Gallop
Clopton Bridge
Circassian Circle
Cock o' the North / 100 Pipers
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