Last Wednesday was our local dance out at the Coach & Horses on Croxley Green. We had really great attendance at this welcoming pub with a good surface for dancing – definitely one to revisit .
We presented our annual Cheque £400 to the CVSS, the chairman John Bray collected the Cheque and was most grateful for our continued support. He and his wife really enjoyed their evening watching us dance and socializing with us all.

We also had some passing girl guides join us on mass with their team leaders. The kids enjoyed joining in Molly Oxford – it made their evening!

After dancing The pub kindly issued us with vast quantities of hot buffet food at no cost which was very welcoming !

All in all one of our more successful Wednesday night dance outs !

We’ve been so busy recently that we have a bit of a bloggers backlog! (Not as unpleasant as it sounds!)

Back at the beginning of July, Phoenix were lucky enough to be invited on another weekend of dance hosted by the lovely Rose & Castle and Queens Oak Morris sides. As ever it was a fantastic event complete with camping, food and an evening ceilidh. Despite the heat we danced our socks off and had a great time.

The weekend was closely followed by St Michael’s evening in St Albans the following Wednesday. As always it was a chaotic cacophony of Morris down the street – great fun!

Last weekend, Phoenix hosted our own day of dance at the 6th annual Rickmansworth Folk Festival. We were joined by our friends Whitethorn Morris, Merrydowners Morris and Wicket Brood for a number of spots around town, culminating in a mass Poppleton stick with Merrydowners and a mass Worcester monkey with Wicket Brood (And one member of Whitethorn). The dancing was of course followed by tea and cake for everyone.

The day was a big success and we want to thank our guest sides for coming along and putting on such a great show.

Finally, on Sunday we attended an event at Rickmansworth Masonic school. Another lovely afternoon!

Despite fear of rain, Phoenix Morris enjoyed a lovely evening of dancing at the Black Horse Inn in Chesham as guests of our friends Whitethorn Morris.Due to our Foreman, Sue, being lent to the musicians for the evening, deputy Foreman, Karen, and Deputy Squire, Kate, stepped in to drive the dances. The calls were mostly correct but at times a little more ‘creative’ than usual!Whitethorn were in their usual excellent form and a great time was had by all. A lovely location, good company and energetic dancing all round.

This Wednesday, Phoenix skipped practice to dance out at the Coach and Horses for Ricky week. It was a lovely summery evening, perfect for a spot of Morris.

This year we were also excited to have won our first ever cup as best individual entry in Saturday’s carnival- of course a photocall was in order!

This afternoon,  Phoenix helped launch this year’s Ricky Week at the Rickmansworth Carnival. We danced out outside Watersmeet theatre to a small but appreciative audience before joining the carnival procession.

We had a real range of dancers at the event from our long-standing veterans to some of our new crop of dancers from last year’s open evening.

A fun way to open Ricky Week 2019.