A Rather Lovely Christmas Party
Dec 08 2009
Well, it’s been that time of year again and Boggarts have celebrated in their time-honoured posh frocks, but in a new venue, the Walnut Club in Sheffield, which is very posh indeed. The food was incredible (always is, that’s why I love it) and the atmosphere was brilliant, particularly in light (get it) of the fact that they can change the colour of the walls, bar and tables to suit, so of course we had it all blue.
Everyone went above and beyond in terms of looking amazing, and Grace even debuted her “evening kit” in the hopes that we will all be kitted out like deranged victorian showgirls when we go out as a team of an evening. Well, I suppose the men could be deranged victorian gentlemen thieves, that might be more appropriate, mightn’t it?
Aren’t We Popular?
Sep 29 2009
An incredible influx of newbies this year has swelled our ranks to above 40, which is just ludicrous, really. However, they’re all very promising, we’re pushing them through the training at a clip and they’re coping fine so far. Face painting lessons uncovered some serious talent among their ranks, so watch the photos for some great new faces. Now if any of them last more than a month or two, I’ll have to see about adding them to the team profile pages…
Another AGM Survived
Sep 09 2009
Another year, another AGM and no blood spilt this time. A bunch of stuff was decided, but we’ve all forgotten what it was by now, so next Monday we’ll just get on with dancing roughly as we always have. The only bit I remember is that there are about 10 newbies coming to join, so it’ll be a bit hectic for the first few weeks. Well, bring it on, if there’s anything we can cope with, it’s hecticity.
Boggarts Triumph at Towersey
Sep 01 2009
Last weekend’s Towersey Folk Festival was a great success for us; we danced well, ate well, drank very well indeed (some of us more than others) and were able to sabotage the ceilidh tent in order to avoid having to perform our play. Just kidding, it was Hammersmith who sabotaged the ceilidh tent, and we were gutted not to perform the play. Never mind, we’ve just had the official pre-invitation to Sidmouth, and we’re spreading rumours that we’ll practice the play for a year and put it on then. Perhaps we will have got good at it by then. No promises.
Thanks to everyone who gave us such good feedback on the ground, we really enjoyed dancing and were pleased that so many people came up and said they’d enjoyed watching. Made us all warm and fuzzy. We particularly enjoyed overhearing people explaining to their children that the campsite toilets’ water was blue because the Boggarts lived in there, and if they took too long on the loo, they’d get their bottoms bitten. We’re currently working on a poem about this. Watch this space.
Workshop attenders: I’m sorry if anyone believed the boggarts who were suggesting that our dance notation was available on our website. The truth is, there is no dance notation, except in a couple of cases where overseas teams have requested written instruction to accompany youtube videos from which they were learning stuff. If you can’t figure it out by watching youtube, please write to us and we’ll see if we can explain it.
Also, if anyone got any good pictures and/or video, please send to (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), cause I was too busy dancing to take many pictures.
Thanks! -Scary Grace