Experience has taught me this: If you get the opportunity to sit with a glass of wine in your hand, a map on the table and a group of friends around you with some pleasant music in the background after a couple of days' keen orienteering - then life really doesn't get any better than that
Or to put it another way:"A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou besides me singing in the wilderness, and wilderness were paradise enow".
To this end I am planning an evening of gentle banter and music on Sunday March 27th at Lichfield Rugby Club (the JK Event Centre and camp site) as the social high point of the festival.
I am going to attempt to show case some of the exceptional talent we have in our ranks and so far Ross T and Andy S are already working on their play list, the Halliday girls are hoping to get back from choir in time to entertain us and I am hoping an extremely young and exceptionally gifted violinist will also agree to play.
This is not a concert or a talent contest or kareoke - it's going to be the kind of back ground entertainment you can carry on talking over if you want to or sit back and enjoy if you like. There will be some livelier interludes - Samsonite has promised us something and there will be some presentations to be made for the camp site competitions.
Are there more of you out there who could do a few tunes or songs - surely our Scottish, Welsh and Irish visiotrs could fly their flags? - and i don't just mean the juniors - any crusties who can cut the mustard on the banjo or spoons
would also be most welcome - don't be shy - this is your chance to prove that orienteers are not the monomaniacs Disco Bunny would have others believe. If you don't want to post your reply in public then pm me. I'm waiting to hear from you!
PS. there does not seem to be a piano at the rugby club anyone got any idea (lightweight electronic alternative for instance )?
) - will the Scots be unrepresented?
Another posting has inspired 
me to suggest that perhaps he could lead a fitball dance. He says he'll be practicing on xmas day, so perhaps he can get a group of friends together and develop a 'dance'. You never know it could become the thing to do in this age of encouraging out fat sofa dwellers to get fit
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). 8.30-9.30 Samsonite will provide us with some entertainment - of a non-musical kind and there will be some presentations for the camp site competitions which have been taking place over the last couple of days. 9.30-10.30 or there abouts - i am proposing to allow some of the most talented the chance to show us what they are made of. This will not be background music. If this is too much for some there is always a very pleasant quiet bar upstairs. 10.30 it finishes. everyone will go quietly to bed so as not to disturb the sleeping children and be refreshed for the relays the next day. Any questions?
