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| l-r Janet, Jo, Shereen, Kay, Pips, Esme, Mel, Rita |
We're back from the 12th Wallingford Bunkfest festival - nearly the end of the outdoor season for 2013 (sniff)! We had an amazing time with the wonderful
Oxford Drum Troupe (ODT) and the dance line-up included Shereen and Mel of
Nirzari from Hampshire, our own new student troupe
Ashnah-Talmiz (with 'our' Janet being joined for the first time by Esme - congrats 'our Esme' on your debut), and also a first for us, our collaboration with the lovely Jo Taylor of
Namaste all the way from 'up Nawf' - Stockport (lalalalala)!!!
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| Oxford Drum Troupe (ODT) |
Ashnah have been going to Bunkfest for over 6 years or so and dancing with many a good Morris side, as we did this year - brilliant fun when one gets to participate by receiving the odd kiss (Shereen), clapping sticks together with
Berkshire Bedlam Morris (though Kay used her zills as didn't possess a stick) and generally each side cheering each other on!!! If I may say my personal favourite people have always been
Beltane Border, and this year, at last, Ashnah shared a slot with them - they're the 'heavy rockers' of the Morris world as far as I'm concerned, long may they stomp, shout and growl (and roll of course)!!! It was a foregone conclusion by Ashnah, that if we weren't ATS
® dancers, we'd be joining a Border Morris group and don Doc Martens, big 'ug' sticks and black our faces!!! Looks great fun!!!
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| Esme |
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| Beltane Border |
All danced out after the daytime festival and filled with 'real' lemonade, beer, iced Pims, all manner of yummy food, we then trooped off to a local curry-house (where typically many of us over-indulged), then ventured back to the festival to listen to some live bands and bop around some more.
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| l-r Kay, Shereen, Mel, Pips, Jo |
As Jo was down in our neck of the woods for the whole weekend, Pips, Kay, Jo and I went for a walk on the Sunday and showed her some local sights - venturing up Wittenham Clumps, climbed a tree to view Oxfordshire below (yup, we really did climb a tree whilst Rita played at being a caterpillar, ahem....), walked to Wittenham lock and weir, played 'Pooh Sticks' (Jo won one race and Kay the next), walked for an hour and a half then ended our lovely day in a local pub garden for lunch and beer (shared with a few local Oxfordshire wasps)!!!!
What a fabulous weekend it was!!!!!!
report by Rita/blogged by Kay
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| a perfect day...... |
