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So, at the end of August I ran away to Whitby for the folk festival (again). I've written about it here before, and... well... much the same sort of stuff happened. I did some dancing, some playing music, some listening to music, some drinking, some eating and lots of catching up with friends.

Flash clog dancing, the generalised idiocy of rapper teams, and a surprise from Coventry )
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On Saturday the mother (who was visiting) and I were up bright and early, on an overground train to Camden Road. We were heading to Cecil Sharp House (headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society) for a day's clog-dancing.

George, the elephant, went on his holidays... )
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This weekend, it was time for the annual slog up to Leyland for the Lancashire Wallopers' weekend of clog-dancing classes. The Wallopers are a long-established clog display team - not that that stopped me from feeling slightly risqué when I googled from work for "wallopers weekend" a week or so ago. (If you care, I didn't find anything particularly interesting. Nor did I find what I was looking for.)

Walloping Weekends )

Here endeth the report on things remarkably few people know or care about :)
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When I said I was going away this weekend, I got accused of having a social life. Well, kind of - it depends if you count clog dancing conventions in Lancashire as "social life".

A mouse lived in a windmill in old Amsterdam )

After that, it was the long slog back down to Oxford. As reported a week or two ago, my car stereo is a little dicey at present and is declining to play tapes, so I'm listening to the radio. I'd observed on the way up that Virgin (which seems to have a much less interesting music policy now than I remember from ten years ago) just wouldn't stay on station in the north. On the latter stages of my journey north I'd switched to local radio, and stuck with it as I set of south again.

Oooh, radio. I love my radio )

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