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We were pleased to accept a kind invitation from our friends Oojar Kappivvey to dance with them at Rye Harbour.

We enjoyed the dancing and their company very much.

Enough said!!!!!

By knd invitation we were asked to dance at High Halden fete by Sally the lady organising the event. This was the villages first fete for a long time so we were pleased to help out.

We then went on to a beer festival at The Chequers, Smarden. There was a good range of very good beers on offer including the wonderful Betty Stogs, the best beer in the country. Thankyou to The Chequers for the welcome and beer.

An early start for this one as we had to get to Folkestone for 8 o’clock. We were once again indebted to Julian, our local scout leader, who drove us in the scout minibus. The welcome at The British Lion was as always superb. The locals come along in their droves to watch us dance at this great location in the town. In a very busy pub serving great food and beer, Nick and Dee made us very welcome. Huge thanks to them for the buffet and beer.

Off to The Worlds Wonder, Warehorne for the first of two visits this year. We were very pleased to be joined by Loose Women, a ladies side from Loose,near Maidstone. Thanks go to John and Kathy for the wonderful spread of food given to us.

We were pleased to help out the village school again this year and dance at the annual fete. There were a lot of people there enjoying the fete and the dancing. We then danced at Ivychurch village fete. A much smaller affair but with the same welcome. We then crossed the road into the beer festival in The Bell. With 30 beers on offer, Mark and Vanda once again did us proud with their hospitality.

On a hot evening we danced in front of a large crowd who were enjoying the evenings sunshine. We once again welcomed Rob, who danced with us, and also Brian and Lisa who played alongside Paytone. We also welcomed Peter and his better half who will hopefully be able to play some music for us in the near future. After dancing we were treated to a huge part hog roast and some jugs of beer. Thanks to the landlord for that. Yet another very enjoyable night out.

The date for beer festival at The George, Bethersden has changed from 1st Aug to 25th July.

Starting at The Bonny Cravat, we danced there to a decent crowd before moving to Terry and Brenda’s for the next stand. It was here the heavens opened which sent us indoors and meant we were not able to dance at the windmill. We then walked down to the museum to dance at the open day the museum had arranged. We danced there, again avoiding the rain, to a large audience mant of those joining in with the bonny green our farewell dance.

We then went on to an excellent barbeque kindly organised by Grahame, Jan, Keith and Lesley. Thanks must also go to Geoff for cooking the meat superbly.

Here we welcomed Rabble, our friends from around Maidstone who came all this way to join us.

Outside a busy pub we danced alternatly with the two different styles pleasing the large audience. On a warm evening it was nice to stay outside with them after the dancing had finished. We hope to see Rabble again soon.

After eventually leaving the village after huge efforts to retrieve a mobile phone and then having to turn round to get the sticks we set off for the open road and headed towards Heyshott, West Sussex where we had our base. The first pub on the left ater leaving the major roads was the Star, Petworth so we stopped there for refreshments. After fish and chips in the hall we walked to The Unicorn , Heyshott where the locals had come out in force to watch. This was Chris the Bagman’s local for many years so he was greeted by a lot of friends and family. Huge thanks go to Jenni for the beer, sandwiches and overall welcome.

Ater an excellent breakfast at the Cowdray cafe (thoroughly recommend it) we were met by Mike, our driver for the day, to take us to The Weald and Downland museum for our first stand of the day. In The rain we found sheter in the market square and danced to the passers by who stopped and enjoyed watching us dance before moving on to explore the museum some more. Thanks to Hannah at the museum for making this stand possible.

We dived in the minibus and headed to The Anchor Bleu, Bosham. Still raining. After some very handy driving by Mike to get the minibus into Bosham we got into a very busy pub. After a welcome drink to celebrate the Squires birthday the rain ceased enough to allow us to dance in the road, having to stop occasionally to allow THREE weddings to pass. One of the bride and grooms actually stopped their car to get a photograph with us!

Back onto the minibus and off to The Crown and Anchor, Dell Quay, another pub on the edge of Chichester Harbour. Another wonderful pub with a friendly welcome. We took over a corner of the pub to have a sing before doing two brisk dances in the bar rather than outside because of the weather.

Onto The Gribble Inn, Oving which was en-route back to Heyshott. Here we stopped for a drink with a choice of eight real ales, all brewed on site, to choose from. After a quick couple of dances we headed back to the hall. After a shower (or not) in Midhurst we then went onto The White Horse, Graffham. Here the Bagman was met by Tim, our website designer, with a pint of the wonderful Betty Stogs.We did a couple more dances here before tucking into a most wonderful pie and chips washed down with some good beer. Here we presented our driver with a small token of our gratitude for driving us around safely.

After breakfast the following morning we headed home stopping at Burwash to sample the beer on offer there.

We thank all the people who helped make this weekend possible and so enjoyable.

On a hot summers evening we were pleased to welcome John and Brian from Hartley morris men who joined us for the evening.

With a full dancing side out we danced to a small but very apprieciative audience. We danced for longer than normal as the audience were still interested and we included some of the crowd to join us in the bonny green, our farewell dance.

We are thankful to the landlord and landlad for providing us with refreshment before we went inside for a sing as well as some music from Brian and Richard.

With virtually a full dancing side out for the evening we were pleased to se so many people in the pub who then on mass came out to watch us as we danced in the lane next to the pub.

As it got a bit colder and darker we retired into the pub and tucked into the sandwiches provided by our kind hosts. We then launched into some singing helped along by the locals in the bar.

Thanks go to your kind hosts Paul and Nicky for a most enjoyable evening and also the ladies for getting us all home safely.