May day Arthur’s stone

MAY DAY! ARTHUR’S STONE, CEFN BRYN

Waking at 4am to drive up to Arthur’s Stone to celebrate May Day is a little bit brutal but nevertheless necessary, on the day. Grey skies heralded change to a fortnight of gloriously sunny weather, but, we were fortunate that the rain held off for us to dance up the Sun, and what a dramatic sunrise we were treated to, with a bright red glow beneath the clouds on the Far Eastern horizon.

We fair rattled through 9 dances including Vandals & Sheriff’s Ride Lichfield, plus our own dance called Curly Boar which was created by Stuart Wright who drove all the way over from Ammanford to be with us. Hopefully he is pleased by our interpretation of his dance, and the tune put to it by Sian!

There was a small crowd of people watching us, which is always a pleasing thing, and Claire, our cake maker, brought some delicious flap jacks to keep us going until breakfast time!

By 7am misty mirky cloud started rolling in so we carried on to Port Eynon to have an early breakfast at Smugglers Beach Bar who did well for us, and it was good to see Ken Bond there, who hasn’t been able to dance with us lately.

Thought’s of a quick dance outside the cafe were scuppered by drizzle, but an improving situation at the King Arthur, meant we were able to dance there following an invitation to perform! We did 5 dances which included the ever tiring Step & Fetch Her, Valentines & Y Caseg Eira which brought a good end to the day. Well done to our musicians & dancers!

So, that’s the first day of May done. We just need to get through the rest of what will be a very busy month!

Pics by Di, Sian, Claire, Geoff & Paul.