Little Explorers Activity Club

We had a lovely time this morning as guests of the Little Explorers Activity Club, a club for children on the autistic spectrum and their families.  We danced in bright sunshine, accompanied by Dave on the fiddle and Pauline on the CD player, and then some club members joined in.   Thank you to Little Explorers for having us - you can see more about what they do on their website, and also on Facebook.  Here we are in action (some photos we took):

Have a try at Morris!

There are two chances to have a go.   The first is next Monday, the 19th August, when we are dancing at the Swan in our home village of Braybrooke.  If you would like to try your hand at Morris, come along and join in!

The second chance is at the village hall in Braybrooke, in October.  Check the diary on this site for the details.

Lutterworth Carnival

A very hot day at Lutterworth Carnival.

And a photo of some of the Triumph motorcycles present, with some classic cars in the background.

Bridge 61, Foxton Locks

First, the remains of the Inclined Plane at Foxton, an amazing lift built at the start of the 20th century to lift canal boats from one canal to another, bypassing the also amazing series of locks.  The locks survive and are still used, the plane was dismantled, although there are plans to rebuild it.

This shows the level at which boats entered the lift, to descend the plane to the canal below.

Now, some photos of us dancing on the towpath outside the Bridge 61 pub, and of our friends Hips N Haws, who joined us for the evening.

Midsummer, Queen's Head, Billesdon

With Bakanalia Border Morris and New St. George, our regular annual visit to Billesdon to mark the longest day (or thereabouts).  Braybrooke was there (that's our Griffin!), but I seem to have forgotten to take any photos of us.

Bakanalia

New St George

 

The White Horse, Stoke Albany

Lift off!

The Star, Geddington, with Higham Hips 'n' Haws

We usually dance in Geddington, near Kettering, with our friends Hips 'n' Haws, a clog dance side from Higham.  And here we all are.

Geddington is the site of one of the three remaining Eleanor Crosses, erected in the 13th century by King Edward I to mark the route taken by the funeral procession of his wife, Queen Eleanor, who died near Lincoln.  The others are at Hardingstone, on the edge of Northampton, and at Waltham Cross.  The one outside Charing Cross station in London is a Victorian replacement for the original, which stood in modern day Trafalgar Square.