Hi Folks.  The Ceilidhsoc Annual General Meeting occurred yesterday to review the last year and elect a new committee. The President (Conrad), Treasurer (Rebekah) and Secretary (Lisa) all delievered reports to say the society is doing well and things look good for next year.  The new committee will be taking over during the next couple of months and are raring to go.  I think it’s going to be a great year!  I can feel it in my snout!

As some of you may have heard, Ceilidhsoc went up to IVFDF (the Inter Varsity Folk Dance Festival) in Aberdeen at the weekend. I missed the coach to IVFDF in Bristol last year, but I made it to coffee revs on Friday morning in good time – early enough to even catch an impromptu performance by Warwick University Rapper on the concourse! Warwick Folk Soc joined us on the coach, and 9 and a half hours (and several service station rapper dances) later we were in Aberdeen. I went straight to the Ceilidh with the Monster Ceilidh band – where else would a Ceilidh Monster go!

Over the weekend I went to lots of workshops – border morris with Boggart’s Breakfast, Balkan dancing, asymmetric waltzing, Basque dancing and silly dances! I also went to the display ceilidh, the Saturday evening ceilidh with Clachan Yell and the suvivor’s ceilidh on Sunday. I met lots of awesome people to dance with and lots of other mascots too!  I’m a bit lazy at Ceilidhsoc ceilidhs so I haven’t danced for a while – but lots of people wanted to dance with me, so I’ll definately be dancing a lot more now!

Look out for lots of pictures and videos of me and Ceilidhsoc at IVFDF on my facebook page – and bring on IVFDF 2013 in Sheffield!

With some of the other univesity mascots after the silly dances workshop

I managed to miss the AGM this year, as I am getting older my short term memory is going I’m sure.  I’ve been told that they voted to create a new committee post of my PA.  This should help keep me organised, so I remember to go to all the events.   See you all on the April 8th for the ceilidh (assuming my new PA reminds me).