The evening start out with a gentle Bampton, which very soon attracted quite a wide audience.

Many of whom wanted to join in, and did.

The Squire with one of the many revelers - not sure what dance she thought she was doing, but it certainly wasn't what we were doing !

Nobody appeared bothered about time or style, other than waving the hankies about.

You mean - you actually dance in time with the music !

But as long as they were enjoying themselves... who cares.

When it came to bringing the sticks out....

Everybody wanted to have a go.

Fortunately nobody got hit too hard with a stick - I very much doubt if anybody would have felt anything at the time anyway.

While other's were just quite happy to sit and watch the evening's proceedings with total disinterest.