14/12/11 Fresh from his stage performance at the DeMontfort Hall, Steve Bozon of the Seaforth Highlanders Pipes and Drums has turned to Hollywood and appears in the new Sherlock Holmes film which will be on general release at UK cinemas from this Friday. See if you can recognise him!

11/12/11 For those who are planning to go to (??????????????) there will be the opportunity to practise some of the dances at Bryce Hall, Leicester on the previous Wednesday evening starting at 7.30 pm.

1/12/11.  So...what exactly happens at the Tuesday class?  Folk often ask this question, so here’s the answer!

17/11/11. HOLIDAY: In case you are not aware, a group of us are going to Portugal in February (21st-28th) The following link will give you more information about the holiday. Whether your partner dances or not, you will be among people you know and it is "more like a family holiday - without the kids". http://www.thesundayclass.org.uk/Dancing%20Holiday.html

10/11/11  FOR SALE:

8/11/11 Doris Buchanan has block booked 40 Upper Circle seats plus a coach starting at Leicester for the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra at Birmingham Symphany Hall on Saturday 10 March 2012.
http://www.thsh.co.uk/view/the-scottish-fiddle-orchestra-10-mar-2012
Places in this private group are available on a first come basis - contact Doris directly on doris.buchanan@virgin.net or 0116 241 5857. Tickets are £18.50 each. The coach (cost ??) will leave from Paddock Street, Wigston (where you can park your car) at about 6.00 pm .

30/8/11 Interested in trying out Scottish Dancing?

19/6/11 Some interesting info (survey and events in the Bedford area) from Bedfordshire RSCDS

8/3/11. YouTube link to the Calpe Volunteers performing the very difficult "Kandahar Reel" at the Ceilidh on the final night of the recent holiday in Spain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK3SUAZvPH8  We are very grateful to Gill for painstakingly getting us up to speed on this one!

16/12/10 Lightening fast Minicrib.

I had occasion today to relook at Mini Crib and was delighted to discover on the latest version (MinicribAdv209) a facility that will produce a Crib Sheet simply by pasting in a list of dances. eg. from our website.

1. Go to Classes (or wherever the list is located) and then find the "Thursday Programme for Session". Go to the week you want, and copy the list in the usual way. eg. Social Programme for that night. NB Do not worry about references to Walk, Talk, (R), 32 bar, etc, etc as you will get a prompt that will easily edit these out later.

2. Open up Mini Crib, find the "footprint icons" on the LHS of the top toolbar. Select the one that says LIST with a diamond underneath it "Select Cribs as Per List" (5th along on my computer).

3. On the blank page that appears, enter a Title for the event (optional), click OK, then Paste (what you copied earlier) onto another blank page that appears. Your list should appear. Press "Proceed". Then BINGO!
[ NB On my computer, for some strange reason, the usual "right click of the mouse" did not work to Paste the list and I had either to Press ALT + X to Paste, but another time it was CTRL + V. Inexplicable!!!]

PS I would appreciate feedback on this. How easy did you find it? Are there other tips like this that you would like me to put on the website? Thanks. webmaster@leicesterrscds.org.uk