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Saturday, 6 March 2010

Longsdon Memorial Hall


Dr Jimmy's retirement party.

Here's a list of Sylvia's dances for your Dance Card.

The Snowball
Goatland Square Eight
Discouraging Waltz / Ragtime Annie
Simple Longways Set
Circle Hornpipe
Old Swan Gallop
The Siege of Delhi / The Earl's Chair
Circle Waltz
Orcadian Strip the Willow
Shebag an Shemor / Give Me Your Hand
The Humours of Scarrif / Some Say The Devil is Dead
Polka Off 
The Willow Tree
Circassian Circle

Psychogeographical Trivia.

I love these old fashioned village hall stages with their rickety steps and vertigo inducing height. They provide a panoramic view of the ceili chaos below. Longsdon competes in height with Endon Village Hall and so merits a stage diving rating of Awesome.

For reasons I'm not entirely clear about Longsdon proudly displays a framed photograph of former Bond girl, star of the Wicker Man, and occasional Fairy Godmother, Britt Ekland. What a trouper. I suppose we can all gain comfort from the the thought that no matter how far you climb up the slippery pole of success we all end up in Panto.