Our new membership year got off to a joyful start when we tried our hand at Morris dancing at the April meeting. What a fun and noisy evening! Otley’s renowned troupe of Border Morris Dancers, Wharfedale Wayzgoose joined us. The 13 brilliant troupe members taught us all about the history of this fascinating form of dance, the group’s origin story, and …
Since many people will this evening be celebrating the birthday of Robert Burns with a Burns supper, we thought we’d take the opportunity to share with you some photos from a very Scottish meeting we held last year! For our September meeting, we twirled, pas de basqued and polkaed our way around the hall in an energetic ceilidh. We’d been …
My journey into Baildon Belles began during the Covid-19 lockdown. As with many it was a time when I re-evaluated my life and my learning was not easy. I learnt that I did not have friends geographically local to me. I had many long-distance friends, long- distance family, acquaintances, work colleagues, but no one close to me. So, as you …
Third-time lucky and we finally got to go on our WI Weekend Away to Coldwell Activity Centre near Colne, Lancashire, at the start of April 2022 (the booking was moved twice from October 2020 and 2021 due to Covid restrictions). What a lovely jam-packed weekend we had. It was great to be doing something normal again in good company after …