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2013

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2013 proved to be a pretty routine year.  We continued to expand our repertoire and there were further upgrades to our equipment, but nothing interesting enough to report.  However, there were two outstanding gigs.

Tony’s daughter, Charlie, ran the London Marathon in aid of Oxfam.  She raised money in a number of ways, but the major event was a dance in March with Jurassic Rock providing the music.  This was held in Clare Town Hall, which was filled to the rafters and the evening  raised £2,000 of a total of nearly £4,000.   The major drama was that Charlie strained her ankle badly during a short training run a week before the Marathon.  She was advised not to run, but felt she could not let down all the people who had supported her and so she decided she would start the Marathon, walk a couple of miles as a gesture and then retire gracefully.  When the day came she became so caught up in the excitement that she started running and was still doing so at 16 miles, when the pain became too much.  Although in tears for much of the time, she continued to walk the remainder and finished.  She didn’t break any records (or her ankle, thankfully), but she could not have made everyone concerned more proud.

The other big gig was our third consecutive New Year’s Eve dinner/dance at The Royal Burnham Yacht Club.  We are becoming something of an institution at the Club and we now have some good friends there who make us welcome each year, look after us very well and are dancing from the moment we start playing until well into the New Year.  Here’s to next year!

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