The Owl and The Pussy Cat

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful 'red and white'(!) boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five pound note. The Owl looked up to the stars above, And sang to a small guitar, 'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are, You are, You are!What a beautiful Pussy you are!'


Edward Lear











Showing posts with label dancing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dancing. Show all posts

Friday, 13 September 2013

Dartmoor Folk Festival

Ok, so I'm easily persuaded that it's ok to just keep bunging everything on one blog! Those who are interested in the sailing will just have to wait until next season, or until we sell the house which ever happens soonest.
As I haven't blogged for ages I've got some catching up to do. I thought I'd break myself in gently with a few what we did this summer stuff. First here's some folky stuff. 
The Dartmoor Folk Festival is a lovely little festival held in South Zeal, a village half an hours drive from here. We emptied Vince's works van, threw a mattress and a camping stove in, and went away for the weekend. The sun shone most of the time and we had a lovely time.

The main stage
 Local morris side the Tinners Morris Men, with their own safety officer!
(ok so he's the festival safety officer, but I thought this looked really funny, I'm easily pleased!)
 One of the many local border morris sides, and a view down the pretty village high street. I'm not dancing with my border morris side now, for reasons I won't go into here, but I have decided to join another ladies morris side this autumn, so more news on that later.
Me in a dress, a rare sight
 Vince, not in a dress

Ah, happy memories ...

Monday, 13 August 2012

Another blogging break.
I'm only doing this one because I think I ought to so I'll be brief.
Busy as usual. 
Not necessarily in any particular order...

Sailing

Map making (West Town Farm)

Gardening

Morris dancing (at Sidmouth Folk Festival)

Sketching, at the allotment
And meals with friends and partys and swimming in the sea (twice) and making birthday presents for Vince. Life's pretty good
That's all for now folks!

Sunday, 4 December 2011

Dancing

Well we did it, our first public performance as a group and it went really well. We only made a few mistakes here and there (ahem!), and I'm sure no one noticed! But most importantly a good time was had by all,well definitely by me, and the others seemed to be enjoying it too.
Here's me in my silly hat, rag jacket and with a black face. If you want to know what that's all about go and look up 'Border Morris' on the internet, I can't be bothered to go into it here. When I'm more organised I'll do my face in prettier colours to co-ordinate with my rags.




ready to go

...and in to the middle..

...and round we go..
that's me on the right.. if it matters?!

The mad bunch that is Imbloc Bedlam, including musicians

Our 'hosts' for the day 'Black Bess' dancing

Mass Morris dancers in Newton Abbot