Daffy's 'a nice cup of tea cheers you up' diary

MrsMoo2U

Oo European dancing? Off to google that it sounds intriguing

Cheery_Daff

This is where I'm heading cherisong There's no one sort of European dancing! Although this is all folky related, and in my experience so far it's usually a lot more slow and sedate than ceilidh stuff, not hugely energetic, but I'll know a few people who are there, and I've promised a nice young man a dance, so off I go

Best have a wash first though, just been for a run And nobody will be wanting to dance with me if I smell like I do now :rotfl:

(might also take my flute - that was the idea in the first place! But I'm not sure I'm brave enough to do it the first night I go, even surrounded by people I know (or rather *especially* surrounded by people I know! :rotfl:) so I might just dance instead

And it's in a pub

MrsMoo2U

Hope you are having fun. It sounds like my kind of night out.

Karmacat

That sounds lovely, cheery - when I lived in London, I joined the Jewish Folk Dance Society (tho I'm not Jewish, lol!) because I reasoned that they'd have all sorts of dancing from all sorts of everywhere .... they were really nice about it too.

Sorry the chapter thing had to go but it sounds like good karma.

Lemon_Tree

i find that i start to freak when i have more than 100 emails in my inbox and can't 'cope' if any show as being unread at the end of the day, so i have use the filing cabinet and move all tackled emails into various folders. We are then able to highlight (in orange) the urgent things to 'follow up' but that's about it (we don't use Outlook but we're heading in that direction over the next couple of years). I basically know that anything in my inbox needs something doing with it, and prioritise the orange things. Unfortunately i can still miss things I do tend to block times out in my calendar for deadlines and work though otherwise other folk think their helping and book me appointments. Good luck for getting yourself a system together. I already know i'm weird about the not having unread emails in my inbox so you don't have to point it out lol

vl2588

I'm exactly the same LT, cannot ignore an 'unread' email! The outlook system is good for colour coding, except I tend to forget what I wanted the colours to mean

ZTD

vl2588 wrote: »

I'm exactly the same LT, cannot ignore an 'unread' email! The outlook system is good for colour coding, except I tend to forget what I wanted the colours to mean

You can rename them, so you *know* what they mean...

Cheery_Daff

Must investigate this colour coding thing! Although we use webmail at home, so might end up losing all my lovely colours. Project folders work pretty well, think i was just being a bit slack lately

Gosh I've had a mightily good time dancing this evening :j :j :j Gorgeous pub, not been in it before! Absolutely lovely. Must take camera next time! And, as expected, lots of people I knew, and some I've not seen for a while (one who's been made into a professor! :eek: I know him as a layabout musician but it appears he has another life too :rotfl: :rotfl: And he wasn't lying, we looked him up on the internet :rotfl:). Lovely and relaxed, lots of dancing, but quite mellow, very cheery indeed. 50p bus into town, 40p on a pint of blackcurrant and soda, and a couple of quid donation to the cause, a nicely cheap night out :j :j Shall make sure I pull my finger out and go to that again! (it's only once a month) :j :j :j

Must do the washing up, entirely abandoned it earlier in a devil-may-care type of way, but don't have an excuse now (other than it's ten to midnight :rotfl: but it'll annoy me more if I leave it til the morning, and I'm working all day tomorrow too!)

Night all xx

Firewalker

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

and do some European dancing

What is European dancing? Just curious.

Firewalker

Cheery_Daff

Just general different types of (mostly traditional) dancing from various places in Europe, not one specific 'european' dance So tonight, there was a workshop teaching Breton dancing (which I missed), then there was some French, some Scandinavian, and some other stuff that I had no idea where it was from

The website says..

"Sheffield Eurosessioners are willing explore any kind of dance originating within Europe, without being too fussy about how to define this. Sessions so far have been influenced by: Breton, French, Scandinavian, Klezmer, Basque and Bulgarian traditions."

So tonight, a fair bit of the linking-little-fingers-and-going-round-in-a-circle-doing-stuff-with-your-feet type of dance, a couple of waltzes, a polska or two (don't ask me to explain, I have no idea, apparently you have to pretend you have a gammy leg and dance with a limp), and some generic whirling around (my favourite ).

Gosh, I think I'm making it sound either not very interesting or completely bonkers! :rotfl:

Or possibly both