2000-2010 Diary Archive
2010
Plough Monday teaching in schools: 11th January 2010
Eaton Socon Plough Monday: 11th January 2010
Whittlesea Straw Bear: 16th January 2010
Ouse Washes Molly Day of Dance: 17th January 2010
Oxfolk ceilidh spot: 13th February 2010
IVFDF in Durham: 5th-7th March 2010
Emma P’s birthday ceilidh: 27th March 2010
Freaks in the Fens: 17th-18th April 2010
Raising Sun on Castle Mound: 1st May 2010
May Day in Wandlebury and Cambridge with Pig Dyke: 1st May 2010
EACH Gala Day in Milton: 8th May 2010
Three Horseshoes, Barrow with Green Dragon: 18th May 2010
Guilden Morden Garden Market: 22nd May 2010
St Neots Folk Festival: 12th June 2010
Ely Folk Festival: 9th-11th July 2010
Cromwell Scouts: 22nd July 2010
Whitby Folk Festival: 21st-27th August 2010
5000 Morris Dancers at the South Bank Centre: 4th-5th September 2010
Workshop for Young Miscellany: 7th November 2010
Owen’s 30th Birthday of Dance: 27th November 2010
Mill Road Winter Fair: 4th December 2010
2009
Hitchin New Year’s Eve Ceilidh display spot: 2nd January 2009
Whittlesea Straw Bear: 10th January 2009
Plough Monday teaching in schools: 12th January 2009
Round Ceilidh display spot: 17th January 2009
Pampisford Plough Sunday: 18th January 2009
Ouse Washes Day of Dance: 24th January 2009
IVFDF in Exeter: 27th February-1st March 2009
Thriplow Daffodil festival: 28th March 2009
Cambs Association for Local History Conference: 18th April 2009
May Morning on Castle Hill and in Chesterton: 1st May 2009
Celebrating Difference, St Neots: 16th May 2009
St Neots Folk Festival: 6th June 2009
St Albans Folk at the Festival: 29th June 2009
Ely Folk Festival: 11th July 2009
Windsor Morris Day of Dance: 18th July 2009
Dance out at the Cambridge Blue: 21st July 2009
Dance out at The Chequers, Pampisford: 11th August 2009
Wallingford Bunkfest: 4th-6th September 2009
Molly Jolly to Jacob’s windmill: 25th-27th September 2009
Practice Weekend: 9th-11th October 2009
Burwash Apple Day: 10th October 2009
Display spot in Round Ceilidh: 17th October 2009
Wetherspoon’s Real Ale Festival: 28th October 2009
Open Morris AGM, Bristol: 21sr-22nd November 2009
Mill Road Winter Fair: 5th December 2009
Display spot in Treasure Trap Mediaeval Banquet: 5th December 2009
Pig Dyke Molly Day of Dance: 20th December 2009
2008
Dancing in Fenstanton: 7th January 2008
Whittlesea Strawbear Festival: 12th January 2008
Plough Monday – Dancing at local Schools: 14th January 2008
Ouse Washes Day of Dance: 26th January 2008
IVFDF 2008, Sheffield: 1st March 2008
Purim Party: 16th March 2008
Parker’s Piece Skipping Celebration: 21st March 2008
Thriplow Daffodil Festival: 12th April 2008
Lakenheath Middle School: 2nd May 2008
St Neot’s Folk Festival: 10th May 2008
Dance at the Cambridge Blue: 27th May 2008
Melbourn Village Fete: 29th June 2008
Green Dragon dance out: 17th July 2008
William Westley School Fete: 11th July 2008
Ely Folk Festival: 12th July 2008
Ouse Washes Weekend: 25th-27th July 2008
Sidmouth Folk Week: 1st-8th August 2008
Maths Video Filming: 6th September 2008
Innovation Trek dance out: 16th September 2008
Boggarts Breakfast Weekend of dance: 19th-21st September 2008
Dance at Rachel and David’s wedding ceilidh: 4th October 2008
Burwash Manor Apple Day: 11th October 2008
Seven Champions Workshop: 18th October 2008
Pig Dyke Molly Day of Dance: 14th December 2008
2007
Plough Monday- dancing at Newnham Croft, Icknield and William Westley Primary Schools: 8th January 2007
Evening dancing in Fenstanton: 8th January 2007
Whittlesea Strawbear Festival: 13th January 2007
Ouse Washes Day of Dance: 20th January 2007
Sarum Morris workshop, Salisbury: 11th February 2007
IVFDF 2007, Edinburgh: 2nd-4th March 2007
Thriplow Daffodil Festival: 24th March 2007
Ely Contra: 3rd April 2007
Milton Morris Men, Pampisford: 29th April 2007
May Day, dancing at dawn, Castle Mound, Cambridge: 1st May 2007
St Neot’s Folk Festival: 12th May 2007
Windsor Morris Day of Dance: 9th June 2007
King’s Event, Cambridge: 20th June 2007
Berkshire Bedlam 30th Anniversary Weekend: 29th June-1st July 2007
Warwick Folk Festival: 27th-29th July 2007
Old Palace Clog Day of Dance, Kingston upon Thames: 2nd September 2007
Pub Dance Out: 18th September 2007
Burwash Apple Day, Burwash Manor: 13th October 2007
Gog Magog Molly Day of Dance, Cambridge, with Baldock Midnight Morris, Milton Morris Men and Heartsease: 4th November 2007
Mill Road Winter Fayre, Cambridge: 1st December 2007
2006
Plough Monday – dancing at Newnham Croft and Whittlesford Primary Schools: 9th January 2006
Evening dancing in Fenstanton: 9th January 2006
Whittlesea Strawbear Festival: 14th January 2006
Mark Jones (Ouse Washes) Day of Dance: 21st January 2006
Display at the Round ceilidh: 28th January 2006
IVFDF 2006, Cambridge: 24th-26th February 2006
John Kirkpatrick “Playing for Morris dance” workshop at the Tithe Barn, Sproughton near Ipswich: 12th March 2006
Display spot at contra, Ely: 11th April 2006
Display at St George’s dance, C# House, London: 22nd April 2006
Pub evening at Live and Let Live, Cambridge: 25th April 2006
St. Neots Folk Festival: 6th May 2006
Chippenham Folk Festival: 27th-29th May 2006
Pub evening at The Cambridge Blue: 30th May 2006
Alpaca afternoon, Barton: 10th June 2006
Newnham Croft School Fete: 17th June 2006
Herts Folk Association Molly Workshop: 25th June 2006
Pub evening with Devil’s Dyke – Tharp Arms, Chippenham, and George and Dragon, Snailwell: 6th July 2006
Ely Folk Weekend: 8th July 2006
Gog Magog Molly Tenth Birthday Weekend of Dance: 14th-16th July 2006
Towersey Village Festival: 25th-28th August 2006
Wallingford Bunkfest: 2nd-3rd September 2006
EAP, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge: 17th September 2006
Cycle tour: 14th October 2006
Gog Magog Molly Day of Dance, Cambridge: 26th November 2006
Mill Road Winter Fair, Cambridge: 2nd December 2006
Reindeer evening, Barton: 2nd December 2006
2005
Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival: 8th January 2005
Cambridge Unitarian Church: 9th January 2005
Plough Monday – dancing around local schools: 10th January 2005
Evening dancing in Fenstanton: 10th January 2005
Ouse Washes Day of Dance: 15th January 2005
Display at the Big Round Ceilidh: 29th January 2005
AGM: 8th February 2005
IVFDF 2005, Norwich: 26th February 2005
Thriplow Daffodil Festival: 19th March 2005
St George’s Day with Wype Doles in Whittlesey: 23rd April 2005
Dance out at the Live and Let Live: 26th April 2005
Sunrise on Castle Mound: 1st May 2005
St Neots Folk Festival: 7th May 2005
Molly day of practice: 8th May 2005
Dance out at the Cambridge Blue with guests Ely and Littleport Riot: 26th May 2005
Alpaca day, Barton: 12th June 2005
Cycle Tour: 25th June 2005
Dance out at the Carlton Arms with guests Green Dragon: 4th July 2005
Ely Folk Festival: 9th July 2005
Sidmouth Folk Week: 30th-31st July 2005
Wallingford Bunkfest: 2nd-4th September 2005
Pecsaetan weekend of dance: 9th-10th October 2005
Folk in the Fall: 5th November 2005
Mill Road Winter Fair: 3rd December 2005
Christmas Day of Dance with Black Annis, Ducklington Morris, Old Glory, Pig Dyke Molly and Novo Septum Vires: 10th December 2005
Unicorn Ceilidh Spot at Hitchin: 31st December 2005
2004
Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival: 10th January 2004
Cambridge Unitarian Church: 11th January 2004
Plough Monday – dancing in Cambridge and Fenstanton: 12th January 2004
Ouse Washes Day of Dance, Ely and Little Downham: 17th January 2004
Display at the Round Ceilidh: 24th January 2004
Display/workshop for Cam-Mind: 2nd February 2004
Cambridge RAG Carnival: 21st February 2004
Inter-Varsity Folk Dance Festival, Exeter: 28th February 2004
AGM: 2nd March 2004
Thriplow Daffodil Weekend: 27th March 2004
St. Georges Day – dancing in Whittlesey with Wype Doles: 23 April 2004
May Day – dancing at dawn on Castle Hill: 1st May 2004
St Neots Folk Festival: 8th May 2004
Gog Magog Jolly Weekend – Bournemouth: 19th-20th June 2004
Godmanchester Gala Day: 3rd July 2004
Ely Folk Weekend: 10th July 2004
Whitby Folk Festival: 21st-23rd August 2004
Gog Magog Day of Dance: 13th November 2004
Gog Magog Jolly Weekend: 13th-14th November 2004
Display for the Cavendish Horticultural Society: 1st December 2004
Santa Evening, Bird’s Farm, Barton: 11th December 2004
Pig Dyke Day of Dance: 12th December 2004
2003
Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival: 11th January 2003
Plough Monday: 13th January 2003
Ouse Washes day of dance, Ely and Little Downham: 18th January 2003
Cambridge University Rag Carnival, Cambridge: 22nd February
Inter-Varsity Folk Dance Festival, Sheffield: 28th February-2nd March 2003
AGM: 4th March 2003
Thriplow Daffodil Weekend: 5th April 2003
St George’s Day – dancing in Whittlesey with Wype Doles: 23rd April 2003
The Carlton Arms, Cambridge: 29th April 2003
May Day – dancing at dawn on Castle Hill: 1st May 2003
St Neots Folk Festival: 10th May 2003
Cherry Hinton Folk Day: 31st May 2003
Histon Feast: 2nd July 2003
Ely Folk Weekend: 11th-13th July 2003
Sidmouth International Festival: 1st-8th August 2003
The Three Horseshoes, Barrow, with Green Dragon Morris: 1st September 2003
Wisbech Folk Fayre: 13th September 2003
St Edmund’s College, Cambridge: 21st September 2003
Cambridge Unitarian Church: 19th October 2003
Autumn Fair, Burwash Manor Farm, Barton: 25th October 2003
Trafalgar Square: 2nd November 2003
Open Morris AGM and Molly Workshop: 22nd November 2003
Gog Magog Molly Day of Dance: 29th November 2003
Reindeer & Santa Evening, Bird’s Farm, Barton: 9th December 2003
2002
Ouse Washes Day of Dance, Ely and Little Downham: 5th January 2002
Plough Monday – dancing in Northwold with Ouse Washes: 7th January 2002
Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival: 12th-13th January 2002
Norwich 02 Festival: 26th January 2002
One World Week event, Kings Parade, Cambridge: 2nd February 2002
AGM: 12th February 2002
Molly Dance workshop, Newnham College, Cambridge: 24th February 2002
Inter-Varsity Folk Dance Festival, St Andrews: 1st-3rd March 2002
Thriplow Daffodil Festival: 23rd March 2002
Cyril Papworth Memorial Day of Dance: 20th April 2002
St George’s Day – dancing in Whittlesey with Wype Doles: 23rd April 2002
May Day – dancing at dawn on Castle Hill: 1st May 2002
Spikey and Naomi’s wedding: 4th May 2002
St. Neots Folk Festival: 11th May 2002
Stapleford Twinning Weekend Ceilidh: 11th May 2002
Cherry Hinton Folk Day: 25th May 2002
Whittlesford Golden Jubilee Fair: 1st June 2002
Ramsey Arts Festival/Carnival: 8th June 2002
The Old Crown, Girton, with Morris in the Maze: 18th June 2002
Centre at St Pauls Community Tea: 22nd June 2002
Histon Feast: 3rd July 2002
Ely Folk Weekend: 13th July 2002
Gressenhall Folk Dance Festival: 0th July 2002
The Esplanade, Sidmouth, Devon: 5th August 2002
The Three Horseshoes, Barrow, Suffolk, with Green Dragon Morris: 18th August 2002
Rachel and Douglas’s wedding: 7th September 2002
Oyster Morris Squire’s tour, Canterbury: 14th-15th September 2002
Unicorn Ceilidh, Hitchin Town Hall: 20th Septmber 2002
St Edmund’s College Summer Student Barbeque, Cambridge: 22nd September 2002
The Round Ceilidh, Parkside Community College, Cambridge: 12th October 2002
Cambridge International Club 70th Anniversary Ceilidh: 9th November 2002
Gog Magog Molly Day of Dance, Cambridge: 30th November
Pig Dyke Molly Day of Dance, Peterborough: 15th December
2001
Plough Monday – dancing in Northwold with Ouse Washes: 8th January 2001
Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival: 13th January 2001
One World Week publicity event, Kings Parade, Cambridge: 27th January 2001
Cambridge RAG Day: 24th February 2001
Inter Varsity Folk Dance Festival, Cambridge: 2nd-4th March 2001
Cyril Papworth’s 85th Birthday Party: 7th April 2001
St. George’s Day – dancing in Whittlesey with Wype Doles: 23rd April 2001
Gog Magog Molly 5th Birthday day of dance, Cambridge: 28th April 2001
May Day – dancing at dawn on Castle Hill: 1st May 2001
St Neots Folk Festival: 12th May 2001
Strawberry Fair, Cambridge: 2nd June 2001
Dancing in Barrow, Suffolk, with Green Dragon Morris: 4th June 2001
Garden Party, The Centre at St Paul’s, Cambridge: 9th June 2001
Dancing at The George, Girton with Morris in the Maze: 21st June 2001
Golden Star Morris weekend of dance, Norwich: 22nd-24th June 2001
Dancing at the Cambridge Blue, Cambridge: 17th July 2001
Dancing at the Fort St. George, Cambridge: 31st July 2001
Towersey practice weekend, Granchester: 18th-19th August 2001
Towersey Village Festival: 24th-27th August 2001
Display at the Round Ceilidh: 6th October 2001
Display at Graham’s Ceilidh: 27th October 2001
Gog Magog/Open Morris day of dance, Cambridge: 24th November 2001
Herts Folk Association Molly Dance Workshop, Potters Bar: 25th November 2001
Dancing at the Grafton Centre, Cambridge: 12th December 2001
Pig Dyke Molly day of dance, Peterborough: 16th December 2001
2000
Dancing in Cambridge for Plough Monday: 10th January 2000
Dancing in Ely & Little Downham with Ouse Washes: 15th January 2000
Dancing at the Fort St George, Cambridge: 20th February 2000
Inter Varsity Folk Dance Festival in Glasgow: 25th-27th February 2000
Display at the Round ceilidh: 4th March 2000
Dancing in Bolton, Lancs, at the invitation of Seven Stars: 25th-26th March 2000
Dancing in Clare, Suffolk, as part of the Nine Daies Morris: 18th April 2000
Dancing at dawn for May Day: 1st May 2000
Whittlesey Carnival, at the invitation of Wype Doles: 13th May 2000
Display at the ASNaC Society ceilidh: 19th May 2000
Magog Trust Millenium Fayre: 3rd June 2000
Teversham Village Feast: 24th June 2000
Cambridge Friends of MDA Garden Party: 25th June 2000
Dancing at the Fort St George: 27th June 2000
Ely Folk Festival: 8th July 2000
Dancing at the Cambridge Blue: 11th July 2000
Barrington Millenium Fair, at the invitation of Cambridge Morris Men: 16th July 2000
Gressenhall Folk Dance Festival: 29th July 2000
Yorkshire Chandelier weekend of dance, Sheffield: 8th-10th September 2000
Display at Reeling in Ealing ceilidh: 30th September 2000
Display at the Round ceilidh: 14th October 2000
Hallowe’en – Dancing in Whittlesey with Wype Doles: 31st October 2000
Day of dance in Cambridge with Pig Dyke and Ouse Washes: 3rd December 2000
Dancing in Waterstones Bookshop with Cambridge Morris Men: 7th December 2000
Pig Dyke Molly day of dance, Peterborough: 17th December 2000