Please check the holidays list as the June Bournemouth ENOTDS holiday has had to be rearranged for early November and the September Whalley holiday has had to be cancelled. It is pleasing to see that dancing is going to restart in the Summer with Old-time at Glenfield and it will be fantastic to see all your happy dancing faces again - Fred

Due to the Covid pandemic and the fact that most of our dancers are in the 'over 70' group and are not likely to have had their 2 vaccinations this side of the summer I am afraid that the Bournemouth holiday for March and the ENOTDS holiday in April have both had to be cancelled. We are arranging alternative dates and will put them on this site as soon as they are confirmed - Fred

No good news I am afraid as far as the dancing goes! Still hope to be able to dance in Bournemouth in March next year but who knows? Watch this space!!

The next issue of ENOTDS newsletter 'Winter News' will be published by the end of the month and will include details of FREE Christmas Music; 'My Musical Life' by David Ingley; 'My Possible Dream' by Derek Young; as well as our usual articles on holidays, members news and views, etc. If you are not a member of ENOTDS and would like to receive a copy then let me or Membership Secretary, Mike, have your details and subscriptions, just £10 for singles or £14 for couples, with nothing more to pay until January 2021. Members will receive their copies as usual. President Fred. Full details on our web site englishnationaloldtimedancesociety.com.

Keep well & safe and doing those old-time dances in your lounge!! Fred

We have just received the latest update on Covid Guidelines as follows -

Following the latest announcements from the various Governments you are still able to keep your classes running (subject to any extra local restrictions that may come in) albeit in a new way. Some genres are finding it harder to return than others, particularly our partner dance branches. You will note from the last email that we had uploaded an example of “Commercial” to the video section of the website.  We have now added more videos to give you more ideas of how you can maintain partner classes in a new format. Either “Dancing in a box” or ”Dancing in Lanes”. It is a time to really stretch your creative thought processes. The key thing to remember throughout is that partners must be from the same household (or support bubble) and you must make sure not to dance into someone else's vapour trail. Therefore, Social Dances and Practice sessions where you are dancing and progressing around the room should still not be happening. We are aware that some are taking place, and this is putting pressure on you to join in. Tighter restrictions have just been implemented by the Government because people are not sticking to the rules/guidance in all areas of life, if we want to get through this quicker, we all need to be playing our part by adhering to the guidance/rules.

From this you will see that we are not allowed to dance and it puts the holiday in Llandudno at the end of November in doubt. We will make a decision on this with the Hotel early next month - Keep Safe & Well - Fred

Due to the restrictions placed upon us by the Government all dances and holidays are CANCELLED until further notice - keep fit, safe and well and doing your dance exercises ready for when we can all get dancing again. Fred

The ENOTDS Old-time Dancing Holiday 27th April to 1st May at the Kensington Hotel, Llandudno has just 2 twin rooms left - BOOK NOW if interested - Fred 

Our T & T w/e 29th November to 2nd December was a resounding success with almost 60 attending. We danced over 120 old time & popular sequence dances to the great music of David Ingley; the Christmas ambience of the Hotel was superb as were the meals. There was lots of fun and laughter, spot prizes and elimination dances and the Charity Raffle raised a fantastic £141 for the Haemophilia Society, for which I thank all the dancers very sinerely. The holiday will be repeated the last weekend in November next year and deposits are already being received which goes to prove what a good time the dancers had this year. Hope you can join us - Fred

the programme for our penultimate tea dance at Lostock Church Hall will be

1.  ALISON WALTZ.                              9.  CHESTER WALTZ

2.  CAROLINA SAUNTER                   10.  CLASSIC GAVOTTE

3.  MIDNIGHT TANGO.                       11.  RIALTO TWO STEP

4.  BAMBI BLUES.                                 12.  DESMOND BLUES

5.  TANTIVITA.                                      13.  LOLA TANGO

6.  ON LEAVE FOXTROT.                   14.  La CZARINE

7.  DIXIE SWING.                                  15.  SHERRIE SAUNTER

8.  VALSE MARTINE.                           16.  GEORGELLA BLUES

Interval                                                      17.  VALSE LOUISE

look forward to seeing you there - Fred