change of practice venue

We had to find another practice hall at short notice yesterday.  Our usual venue at the school was unavailable as the caretaker was recovering from an operation.  I wasn't very chuffed to be honest.  The only reason why we couldn't let ourselves in and out was because they wanted the burglar alarms reset after we left and there was no one who was available to do that.

Fortunately, I remembered another venue from when I'd been hunting for a place to practice.  I'd turned down St James' hall as it wasn't available every Thursday - I gave them a ring and it was available last night.

So we danced at St James' church hall in a rather pretty part of Poole Old Town. We even gained a spectator!

We'd left the door open because it gets hot when we're dancing and a lady tourist from Jersey heard the music, recognised it as morris and popped her head in.  We invited her  to stay and she watched a couple of dances.  She dances with Jersey Lilies.   I remember them from years ago when I danced with Dorset Buttons and we were invited to Jersey to dance with them for a few days.

She was delighted to see some young morris dancers.