….well I could have, if the musicians hadn’t have given up at 2.30am - lightweights!!!

The event - Adam & Mary Cade’s summer party - french and irish music and dancing, barbecue, yummy desserts, bouncy castle and camping.  The Cades erect a large tent with complete with dancefloor and straw bale seats in their garden and invite everyone round for a long evening of dancing.

Given that on french dancing nights (third friday in the month in Ketton, near Stamford) it is normal to dance until the pub kicks us out, then pop next door to Adam & Mary’s for a cup of tea and bite to eat (a bit of a midnight feast really) - the concept of eating first and dancing after was a bit unusual, but we coped!

This is another event where I spent the night shooting video rather than taking photos, and hopefully will get the end result on here soon.  In between filming I did get a considerable amount of dancing in which I thoroughly enjoyed.  We even had visitors from next door when the pub closed, although dancing sober is hard enough (in my book) and the guys who joined us from the pub were really on a loser from the start in that respect!  When the dancing finished, as people gradually drifted off to bed, some adjourned to the house for a chat, others stayed out in the garden, round the brazier, and on the bouncy castle!  Yes, I was one of the mad people on the bouncy castle at around 3.30 in the morning (I blame Adam….).  After trying to jump accross the castle and landing with my nose against the opposite wall (ouch!!), I gave that up as a bad job and watched the others - including Adam on the tree swing (madman).  I finally made it to bed around 3.45am, as it was getting well and truly light, some I know didn’t make it until at least an hour later.

One of the things I don’t like about camping is I that always wake up when its light….so around 7.30am I turned over and tried to get back to sleep!

And then off to an Plus Area conference around 10am after breakfast………no rest for the wicked!

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