Friday 28th November Desborough Late Night Gala

Out and about again for Desborough's late night event which also coincided with the Christmas Tree Fayre at St. Giles Church.  Desborough's Christmas lights were switched on by Widow Twankey , helped along by The Ice Queen and Aladdin's Genie - all from Kettering's Lighthouse Theater 2014 Panto. Tried recruiting them but they declined 

It was good fun trying to find enough room between stalls, Fire Engines and ponies/donkey's ( couldn't make out which they were in the dark as I only ever saw their backends)  Next week it's Harborough Christmas Fayre - lets hope there is a bit more 'illumination than there was in Desborough.

There are a couple of Video clips below the gallery 

Not much happens in the closed season Except Practice Nights

Practice Night 24th November 2014

A suggestion had been made to see if we could fit  Lively Jig to " Don't stop the Cavalry" - a Christmas Time tune ( but not really a Christmas song). There wasn't really enough time to make it fit but we have managed to use PC assistance to demonstrate it could work with a tweak here and there

There were odd bits of confusion which made it the usual Practice evening fun!!

Friday 31st October 2014 Ghosties and Ghoulies and Long Legged Beasties and things that go Bump! in the night

Out and about again. This time exchanging Sticks for Light Sabres. The problem is they don't make a noise and you can't bang them on the ground. Still all had a great time at East Carlton Park's Halloween invent. The place was packed! There were Spooky Tours and Ghost Trains. It looked like a fantastic success.  All the side dressed for the occasion. Squire David dressed up as the Invisible Man and disappeared from just about every picture (photographing Black Cats in Coal Cellars comes to mind).  Pauline, Brenda, and Sally dressed for a night out in 'Harboro. Rowena's Vampyre Fairy was attributed to too much Gin.  Thanks to Jonathan for turning up as this let me off to use the camera.    Finaly thanks to Rowland for getting the picture of the night the only time the flash went off  for him.  A few samples below - there are more pictures in the Website Gallery

Rowland's Photograph 

Saturday 25th October 2014 - Macmillan Day in Harborough with Bakanalia and Hips'n'Haws

On a sunny autumn morning  shoppers were entertained outside of Sainsbury's by Braybrooke , Bakanalia and Hips'n'Haws.  There were plenty of people about and plenty stopped to watch. Some even took part in  audience participation dances - with all three sides helping out. By the weight of their buckets the Macmillan  collectors were confident they were doing well - lets hope that the people of Harborough and the surrounding area have been as generous as usual

                                             

           

                                         

                                                 

                                                                                                                                     

Thank you for the Day.........4th October 2014 a Day of Dance to remember

What a fantastic day our Day of Dance was. Celebrating 25 years of Dancing the Side started the day outside the Swan in drizzle , which turned into the heavy stuff at East Carlton. It wasn't enough to stop sides dancing in raincoats and carrying brolleys or dancing with Daleks - well one Dalek called Toast. East Carlton Park did a great catering job and we set off for Harborough replenished The rain had stopped by the time we reached the Square to find two other sides  Sheffield City Morris and Black Annis warming up the paving slabs for what looked like an invasion of people who jingled when they walked.  I never thought I'd hear the theme tune from Blackadder used as a dance tune but Sheffield City did a good job of dancing to it. Next stop Foxton in bright sushine - half the group danced up at the museum and the other half near the pub.  Back to The Swan for dancing and cake and a chance to reflect on a day which couldn't have gone any better

A random selection of images from 4th October - many more in the DoD Gallery use the lik to the main website

   

Don't Panic Mr. Mannering !!! Computer says NO!

7 days to DoD day and counting.  An opportunity to circulate information about the DoD had reminded everyone we needed some Flyers. So last weekend (21st) had seen a flurry of activity to get  Artwork set up and into an 'On Line' print shop. Negotiated challenges of their ordering system and order was placed  Monday - so sit back and wait for their delivery.
The email received Wednesday morning saying "Sorry both big printing presses are broken down expect a 3 to 4 day delay' was not what I wanted to hear.
So midday Wednesday I start again. If I can get the Artwork to 'On Line' printer #2  by 5.00pm I will get delivery Friday BUT (there had to be a but) they needed it in a different format.
Microsoft Publisher should have imported the original word file -but computer said NO! and at 1.00pm I started rebuilding the Flyer in the new format.  By 3.30pm I had it sorted and loaded it onto the On line Order - and  great performance - they were delivered at 10.30am yesterday (Friday) .

As Hannibal in the 'A' Team used to say "I love it when a plan comes together" (just)

Link to Day of Dance Flyer

The Day of Dance Flyer is off to the printers but this link will take you to a version of it which will start to appear next week - I have tried to put as many routes to it as I can think of.

The Link below takes you to a copy of the 

DAY of DANCE FLYER

Day of Dance Saturday 4th October 2014 FLYER