The Art Class

These are two watercolours painted by John, after the style of our excellent Art tutor, John Bardell.

Below are two pictures painted by Margaret using Acrylic paint on canvas boards.

Dancing at the Village Hall

We always look forward to meeting our

friends at the dance, This is held every fortnight in the Village Hall, and consists of about 60 people getting together to dance both Ballroom and Sequence dancing with a little line dancing thrown in as well.

We got to the dance about an hour early to help our friends Derek and Shirley to get the chairs and tables ready for the evening. This proved totally unnecessary as everything was ready before we arrived, but we decided that this is a good time to get there as we are able to sit and unwind before the dance

We sat with some friends Ron and Bella, who have been dancing for many years, if we are not sure of how to do a dance we can follow them. I really enjoy the sequence dances and we get up for as many as we can. These are easily the most popular form of dancing and the floor can get very crowded at times during some of the more popular sequence dances. I also get up for the line-dancing, this gives Margaret a break, as she likes to sit and chat while these are on. We both also enjoy the occasional ballroom dance, especially the waltz and the cha-cha-cha.

Halfway through the evening we stop for a break and enjoy a cup of tea and biscuits, and the raffle is drawn, prizes that have been brought by the dancers are won and claimed.

After the break, we continue to dance the night away, until 10.30pm, and we all go our separate ways. An evening of friendship and good fun. It is a pity that most of our friends are in our age group, and that the young are not dancing. it would be a real shame if this slice of English life should die away.

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My very first blog attempt. HEY!

The day started with our regular computer class with our excellent tutor, Freda.

Margaret and I had firmly made our minds up that we would be taking a break from the class at the end of this term. However true to the old adage, "The best laid plans", we got so interested in the work we were doing. We changed our minds. Freda has allowed us to continue on the basis of, come when you can, and enjoy. We are learning how to set up power-point presentations.This is really fascinating, and will be very useful to me when I become more skilled at putting these blogs together.