Leek Cricket Club

Congratulations Sue and Brian on your Ruby Wedding Anniversary – 40 years of marriage – an achievement made all the more impressive to me as I haven't even managed one. Typically, I remembered to bring the camera but not the all important battery so we were unable unable to record the celebrations in their entirety. All was not lost as Sue came to the rescue with her iphone. Her pics are a bit lo-rez, but the grainy, arty look gives them a charm or their own. There were more, but as with the way of things, they appear to have fallen into Internet limbo.

We had a guest caller for the evening – Jason Hill from the band Alf Alfa and the Wild Oats – who calls my favourite comedy ceili dance, Salutation Square Dance.  Here's Jason's dances for your Moody Food Dance Card:

The Cock o' the North / 100 Pipers
Circle Mixer
Flying Scot
Salutation Square Dance
The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
Caerphilly March
Cumberland Square Eight
Stoke Golding Country Dance
Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
Old Swan Gallop
Circassian Circle

Genetix Gymnasium, Leek

Happy Birthday Chris! Remember, it's been scientifically proved that the more birthdays you have the longer you live.

As we set off from Stoke we could see in the distance a hot air balloon floating over Leek – good to know that there's at least one form of air transport not affected by volcanic dust. We often see see balloons on the  way to a gig and for us the first sighting of the year is like hearing the first cuckoo of spring –  summer is surely on its way.

Around ninety people came to celebrate Chris's fiftieth birthday and just about everybody seemed to be sporting the very popular Daisy Duke look to dance to Collin and the Moody Food Ceili Band.

During the interval we were fed with a hog roast, admired the golfing birthday cake with the legend 'Don't Ask' – so we didn't, and were entertained by a David Brent style dance routine from Chris's work colleagues.

Sorry the photos all went a bit Pete Tong – we'll get around to reading the manual one day – but in case you can't see through the digital haze, this is what you danced.

The Cock o' the North / 100 Pipers
The Snowball
Doxie Marches
Thady U Ganda
The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
Nova Scotia
Boston Tea Party
Old Swan Gallop
Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
Foula Reel
Cumberland Square Eight
Circassian Circle