Barn Dance (9/10/10)

On Saturday 9th October around 65 people attended the barn dance. Those taking part were all members of St. John’s or their friends and a good time was had by all. The ages ranged from nine to over 70 years and all those who were fit enough to join in enjoyed the dancing. Those who couldn’t dance encouraged those who could!

For the first time at one of our barn dances we had live music provided very ably by two members of the Southport Orchestra, Steve on fiddle and Andy on guitar/piano accordion. Edwin helped to complete the ensemble by playing the drums, and Ruth did a splendid job of calling the dances and managed to get everyone through the steps without too many mistakes!

Supper consisted of cottage pie and apple strudel and at £5 per ticket the event was extremely good value for money!

(Thank you Christine for providing this for the blog!)

From Barn Dance to Dancing Queen!

Since the beginning of February we have had two opportunities to "Trip the light fantastic" here at St. John's!

And fantastic events they have been!

The first, on February 7th was a Barn Dance which everybody who attended enjoyed. A hilarious time was had by one and all as Ruth vainly attempted to guide us through the various complicated manoeuvres!

The second on 28th March was an "ABBA Night"! This proved to be so popular that tickets were completely sold out and we apologise to the people who turned up, in all their gear, following the mis-information in the Visiter, only to be denied admission.

Those fortunate enough to have tickets enjoyed watching large screen video of ABBA themselves as well as extracts from the film Mamma Mia. These were interspersed with a team quiz and, of course, the opportunity to dance beneath a spinning, spotlit, mirror ball!

Even the food was "70's" style - including cheese and little onions on sticks, prawn cocktail and Black Forest Gateau!!