Back when I learned highland dancing in the 1990s, we used to enjoy doing the Scottish Lilt to a recording that Jack Campbell had been given by somebody, featuring Drops of Brandy played on the harp/concertina/bodhrán/… and then later two voices singing Brose and Butter. Nobody at the time seemed to know where it originally came from. I probably have the track on a cassette tape somewhere, but I'm no longer really set up for playing cassette tapes, and in any case it was a copy of Jack's copy of … and actually considerably worse for wear at that point – so it would be interesting to look for the original!
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There was a month-long hiatus on this blog because, reasons. I'm happy to say that, after a two-week back-and-forth with Framework Computers to get a mainboard replacement under warranty for my laptop, things should now be mostly back to normal in the IT department.
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Fifty-Nine!
Another Dance Night
“My Dance Lists”
I spent some time drawing up a programme for the upcoming end-of-April Rhein-Main-Mini-Social and assigned it to the FSCDC teachers' group so Marie could have a look at it before I posted it to the public. But the list didn't show up on her “My Dance Lists” page. What was going on?
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Just a brief note to document that the second four hours of this month's SCD taster session went fine – we finished with The White Cockade and The Machine without Horses, and while the dancing could have been improved in a few places, everybody finished together and in the correct places! The dancers were generally happy with the workshop and some of them are considering coming on Tuesdays.
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It's that time of year again! We're holding a bi-annual taster SCD workshop for beginners in cooperation with the Volkshochschule Frankfurt (Frankfurt adult learning centre). This takes place on a Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning (4 hours each) and the Saturday session of the spring 2025 workshop is today.
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An article in c't prompted me to install an instance of Bitpoll, which is a scheduling service similar to Doodle. The general idea is that if you want to put on an event but don't quite know when, you use the service to generate a poll listing the possible dates and send a link to the poll to everyone you want to involve in the decision. People can then mark the times which are convenient (or inconvenient) to them, and you can use this information to decide on the actual date.
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