Morris dancing

Spent the last six hours dancing (albeit including a break for lunch).  Our team taught 'Hartshead' and learnt Saddleworth and another dance beginning with 'P' whose name I have temporarily forgotten.

All dances are from the North West morris tradition.  Generally danced wearing clogs and holding short decorated sticks or 'slings'.  Slings vary in style but are generally pieces of rope roughly a foot long that can be swung from side to side or whirled over the head.

I had to stick to dancing on the left side of the hall as my neck only wanted to turn in one direction to look at the instructor, but people were very good at letting me choose a suitable position in sets to do this.

All in all, an enjoyable day.  I'm also getting better at playing some of the tunes, but I still can't manage to play with the band for very long as I find I can't pick up a tune once I've dropped it.  I'm great solo...  I'm sure this will improve with practice though.