Knackered, but in a good way.

We visited Ferndown Middle school today.  It's school project week and one of the many things they're doing is morris.

Henry and Graham took the day off work so we'd have two energetic males to enthuse the boys.  Graham has the handy ability to dance and drum steadily at the same time (I can dance and play the concertina reasonably well).  That means we can go backwards and forwards and help key the dancers into what they're doing, while still maintaining the music (and Ian and Pam provided essential back up with their accordions).  

Several of the children were interested in the instruments as well as the dance, so we'll add in a bit more about the instruments when we face new groups of children tomorrow.

Paul, from Bourne River morris came and lent a hand as well (we loaned him one of our tatter jackets).  His advice, as a retired teacher, was very helpful.  He suggested splitting the children in each class into two groups and letting each group perform in front of the other at the end of the session.

I got my last group of the day to choose themselves a name - they picked 'Splinters'... and that really got the team spirit going.

There's a lot of interest (especially from 'Splinters') in joining us for a day at Wimborne Folk Festival. We'll see how much of the interest survives remembering to hand the form to their parents, etc. but it was very welcome to see them keen to try it.  We'll hold another session in a week and a bit for those who want to come to the festival. 

Tomorrow, we have four more classes to teach.  Oh my poor Achilles tendons!  Still looking forward to it though.  There were some really promising dancers in today's sessions.