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Last weekend saw me, with Mabel Gubbins, at the annual Lamb Ale held by Kirtlington Morris. As events go, it's rubbish for a rapper team. There are two pubs in the village, neither of which will let us inside to dance, so we do a lot of scuffing about on concrete. However! It's a grand social occasion, we get to see lots of other teams and generally hang out and eat lots of nice food.

Carrying on in Kirtlington )
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Bah, I should have posted about this sooner. Life is getting away from me again.

This Sunday is once again Kirtlington Lamb Ale, home of sunshine (yes, always, I promise), ridiculous morris-dancing, sensible dancing with swords, and beer. And cake. It seems I last did a proper write-up of the event some years ago.

Anyone fancying a short jaunt into Oxfordshire countryside to see a pretty village, some dancers and some occasional weirdness is invited to check out the schedule. Actually there's stuff going on all weekend, but I shall be there only on Sunday.

I'll be there with my rapper team, Mabel Gubbins, which will feature two of our (very) new recruits dancing in public for the first time. Anything could happen.

ETA [livejournal.com profile] hjalfi points out that the Kirtlington links don't contain any actual location to head to. Kirtlington is a smallish village, about here. It's small enough that if you head to it, you'll work it out :)

In tangentially-related news, this article in the Daily Mail sounds like bollocks to me. OK, that wasn't really news, was it ?
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Last time I wrote about Kirtlington Lamb Ale, mention was made of Christopher Lee in a dress.

I still didn't see him this year, but once again I did see the strange spectacle of little girls in white frocks and pink ribbons dancing round a lamb. This time I have photos (or will have, when the little plasticy film-things have the magic done to them). And however freaky little girls in white with pink ribbons are, the spooky pagan effects are spoiled when they're dancing in a school playground, in blazing sunshine, beamed on by a large crowd.

Last night, however, it was a different story. )
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Well, Friday night was pencilled in for staring blankly at the wall. However, it was much enlivened by the unexpected arrival of a [livejournal.com profile] davefish and a [livejournal.com profile] keris. Got to catch up with them for a while - especially [livejournal.com profile] keris, it's nice to see her back on the right landmass again - to a background of clanking and cursing as Andy crawled round the floor trying to sort all his tools back into the right boxes.

Saturday morning, I did normal things. I got up, and pottered about doing bits of shopping and that. Like you do on a Saturday morning if you're not me.

Then I went off for weekend weirdness in Kirtlington. )

Designated Hero of the Week )

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