Merry Xmas & Happy New Year

I try to keep the blog site updated as much as possible but like most of us, time is limited and we get very busy looking after family and grandkids etc.

I have made a change to my Sunday class which has now moved to Tuesday Morning for 3 hours. It is not going to suit everyone, but I needed to make the change to suit my life and spend more time with Rob (husband) and also I am looking after my mum (95).

Also this change will give me the chance to go to socials in Sydney & Canberra on Saturday nights and not have to rush back home for the Sunday class.

I would like to wish everyone a wonderful Xmas and a Safe happy New Year.

Hope to see you all again in the near future. xx

Shoalhaven River Cruise

Shoalhaven River Cruise 2 1/2 hour cruise with great friends, Carol organised this little outing to finish off the end of another great year of dancing.

Me, Cathy, Cheryl, Sonja just starting our little cruise

The group that enjoyed our River Cruise, thanks all for making it a lovely day

Carol, Muriel & Me enjoying the afternoon.

Collette, Yvonne & Carol enjoying the entertainment on the cruise.

Thanks Carol, a lovely way to finish off the year.

Sydney Harbour Cruise with Josh & Julie Talbot

Sydney Harbour Cruise with Josh Talbot and mum Julie, what a lovely way to spend Sunday with friends

Waiting to Board for our 4 hour cruise

Jenny Geoff and Kerry

Laurelle, Laurel, Brenda & Cathy enjoying the day.

MMMM Lunch

Opera House & Harbour Bridge what a beautiful constructions. With Sonja & Brenda

Waiting to board for the 4 hour cruise

Enjoying the sun with Laurelle & Sonja

The Sussex Inlet Crew along for the day.

The boys waiting to board.

Thanks for coming along to make a fantastic day out with good friends.

Nowra first Inaugural Dance Affair

Ian Pidd who is an organiser of Dance & Theatre ask all groups of dancers in the Shoalhaven Region to perform at this Dance Affair. We were asked to perform a little welcome act to kick off the night, which was a lot of fun.

We had 30 girls to do a one dance demo "Get it Right" and I was also asked to teach a beginner dance  for all the audience to have a go "Ah Si" dance to Pitbull's Fireball

There were many other forms of dancers, Country Folk Dance, Shoalhaven Performers, Irish Dancers, Ballroom and Rock & Roll Exhibitions.

Thanks to all that turned up for this amazing dance affair. Let's hope they put on another one in the future.

Bomaderry Xmas Party

Can't believe it's almost Xmas, this was our end of year Xmas Social at Bomaderry Community Hall, everyone had a great time, with plenty of requests as well as a set program.

We had travellers from Sydney, most of them still come down for a class, Laurelle, Geoff, Doreen & Alan, 

Milton Ulladulla girls, Yvone, Helen, Bev and some of their girls, 

Dapto Girls, Jenny & Robyn, 

Sussex Inlet girls & Geoff, Jenny, Judy, Kerrie, Lea, Janette, Maureen, Gayle & Gail M. 

Also our dear friend that travels from Crookwell almost every week Brenda Scarborough.

A big thank you for all the helpers that set up the room to make it look very Christmassy, too many to mention.

 Thanks to Marion and Mercia for sitting at the front desk for the sign in. 

Thanks to Geoff McGown for bringing along his vacuum cleaner and cleaning up at the end of the day.

Thanks to Rob & Geoff for their kitchen duties.

Thank you everyone for bringing along delicious food for supper.

Red Cross Demo

What a lot of fun we had, we danced for a half hour, then a few of our girls did some modelling for the Red Cross Centre and wow did they look fantastic, then a few more dances then off to the club for lunch.

Thank you everyone that came along for the demo.

Illawarra Social October

Maddison Glover knows how to put on a great social weekend of dancing. Friday night they had a social which I did not attend, but I believe everyone had a wonderful time. On Saturday we went to the workshop with Maddison & Tom Glover.

After the workshop we went to the Saturday Night Social and had a wonderful time, what a nice selection of dances for all different levels of dancing.

Thanks Maddy looking forward to next years social.

September Social Fund Raiser

The social went very well raising money for the Shoalhaven Cancer Care Centre. Thank you to everyone that bought raffle tickets and coming along to both socials. We raised a total of $3,019.00.

Friday night was a meet & greet with 60 people attending, lots of requests for the night with lots of golden oldies and many of the new dances requested as well. The time went so quickly and everyone enjoyed the evening. Thanks to all those that travelled long distance, Canberra, North Sydney, Milton, Sydney, Sussex Inlet.

Saturday Afternoon was fantastic with 122 people attending 6 hours of dancing with a set program of 60 dances plus requests in between brackets, needless to say most hobbled out by the end of the evening. Everyone enjoyed a chocolate mud slab cake and 2 huge fruit platters, which didn't take long to disappear.

Shoalhaven Line Dancers thanks you all for coming along to raise money for our local charity and hope to see you all again next year at the same time the weekend after Father's Day.

September Social

Where has the time gone, we are getting closer to our Annual September social, the theme for Saturday Social is Masquerade.

Unfortunately we had to change the venue for our Social this year as the Country Club is undergoing massive renovations.

Friday night 7th September, Meet & Greet will be held at the St Georges Basin Community Hall starting at 7pm, Doors open at 6.30pm, this is request only, so start working on your favourite dances to do.

Saturday social 8th September, starts at 12.30pm, doors open at 12pm, this is held at Shoalhaven Heads Bowling Club. You will be able to get meals at club, We will have a light supper during the afternoon. Looking forward to seeing those beautiful Masks (or horror masks)

There will be a set program for the afternoon with requests during the brackets, If you need any information regarding the social ring Laurel 0408 184 984

We have quite a few Instructors & Choreographers coming along to take a bracket of dances,

Rosalie Mackay (Sydney), Ros Straw (Sydney), David Hoyn (Dapto), Robert Fletcher(Sydney), Michelle Palmer (Sydney), Stan Walker (Canberra), Julie Hearne (Canberra), Petra Dwyer (Canberra), Jenny Bates (Canberra), Maureen Robinson (Braidwood), Trish Pratt (Shoalhaven), Bev Andriskie (Milton), Helen Reeson (Ulladulla), Jenny Landsberry (Sussex Inlet)

Thanks to you all for taking part in our annual social.

See you all in a month's time.

Feathertop Social

Feathertop Social was at Harrietville Victoria near Falls Creek.  Darren Mitchell and John put on a fantastic Weekend, with Maddison Glover doing the workshop with Darren.

6 dances were taught over 2 days, so we didn't feel quite so overloaded. We had 3 socials, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, These socials were all requests, I didn't know a lot of the dances, but it gives me the opportunity to pick and choose the dances I would like to teach.

We travelled on the train from Moss Vale to Albury, with Tom & Donna Glover, Maddison and the group from Illawarra, what a great way to see parts of NSW, just beautiful country side, this took 5 hours, then a 2 hour bus trip from Albury to Harrietville, the time went really fast, as there is so much to see.

I would like to thank Darren & John for the most professional Weekend of dancing that I have attended, the meals were great, the rooms very comfortable and warm, you did a great job with the organising of the whole weekend, my only gripe was that I didn't get to see snow(one day hopefully) will definitley come back again.

Also a big thanks to the girls that joined me for this weekend. Jenny Landsberry, Sonja Binks, Brenda Scarborough, Rhonda Brightwell, Brenda English, & Robyn Delaney. We all had a wonderful time.

Kate Simpkin 15 Years of Dancing Celebrations

Kate certainly know how to put on a great social. There was 172 people attending the social at Carlingford Community Hall. Lots of dances for all levels. It was great to catch up with a lot of our line dancing friends.

Jenny Landsberry and myself took a bracket of dances with the help of Maddison Glover when we did her dances. Laurelle Barrett and Kerry Howes also joined us at the social and it was wonderful of Laurelle to let Jenny, Kerrie and myself stay overnight at her new home which was only 20 mins drive.

I do have photos from the social when I get them of my phone I will add them to this site.

Homebush Ball

Homebush Ball, our first Big Social for the year, was a huge success raising $18,000 for Ronald McDonald House.

Ten of our group went along to enjoy all our favourite dances and to see some fantastic performances by our youth in our linedance family.

Jenny Landsberry and myself went up on stage in front of 600 people to take a bracket of dances, thankfully everyone knew what they were doing as we made a few mistakes, what can I say we are only human, but it was a lot of fun just the same.

Hopefully we will have more come along next year, not only for the line dancing but to raise money of this very important charity Ronald McDonald House.

Our next social is in May with David Hoyn, this should be a fun night of dancing.