Red House Farm

Yee Haa – up to Red House Farm with the Moody Food posse for a proper barn dance in a proper barn.

Collin's Dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

The Cock o' the North / 100 Pipers
Doxey Marches
The Snowball
Thady U Ganda
Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
Virginia Reel
Boston Tea Party
Old Swan Gallop
Foula Reel
Circassian Circle
Turkey in the Straw / Seneca Square Dance

Last orders at the bar.

Birch Hall Farm, Ingestre

They know how to do things properly at Ingestre – a proper barn dance in a proper barn, although perhaps having the bbq inside was not such a good idea, but at least it explains why the early photos look so smokey. It was a bit cold though and later in the evening it became too cold to hold my pick – but then again it was July in England.

Sylvia's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

The Oxo Reel
The Snowball
The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
Circle Dance
Goatland Square Eight
Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
The Flying Scot
The Old Swan Gallop
Simple Longways Set
The Gravel Walks / Crowley's Reel
Circle Hornpipe
The Humours of Scariff / Some Say the Devil is Dead
Beccles Slide
Molloy's Favourite / The Foxhunter / Cooley's Reels
Circassian Circle
Big Maggie's Set 

It's my barn and I'll sleep wherever I want.

Quixhill Lodge Farm

There are barns and then there are really BIG barns. In fact everything about the night was big from the barn to the tractor and trailer that acted as our stage. Besides the dancing we had a hog roast and a charity auction and raffle with the money raised going to the 'Reaching Out to Children in Staffordshire' appeal. This will be used to build a centre in Stafford to help vulnerable young people at risk of cruelty. The building will be an environmentally-friendly, purpose built centre that will offer all of the NSPCC's specialist services under one roof and will be accessible to every young person across Staffordshire.

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

Cock o' the North / 100 Pipers
Oxo Reel
Goatland Square Eight
Clopton Bridge
Postman's Knock
Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
Old Swan Gallop
Orcadian Strip the Willow
Polka Off
Circassian Circle

Here's a bit of LoFi video of the Goatland Square Eight,

and a big yellow tractor for Finn.

Blithbury Reindeer Lodge

At last! A barn dance in a proper barn.

Blithbury Reindeer Lodge