Timeline - Friday 13th September 2013 - Heritage Open Days

Today I had a day off work.  I woke late at 9am, and had to get ready quickly as I was helping to set up the hall for my birthday dance that evening at 10.30am.  I got there just after, and we put the tables out, got the table clothes on etc.  I had a 50th birthday banner which I put across the stage, and with four of us we made quick work of it completing the transformation of the hall by 11.30am.

As it was Heritage Open Day today, I stopped off in Middleton and viewed some buildings there.  Three of them I had been to in previous years, but it was still good to visit them again.  I had a cup of coffee at the Long Street Methodist Church, and was given a one-to-one guided tour of the school rooms.  I then visited St Leonards Parish Church and the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School.  I also visited All Saints & Martyrs Church in Langley.

I then got dressed into my nines (Prince Charlie Jacket, bow tie and all) and wore the family tartan kilt, went to my birthday dance at St Aidans Church Hall, Sudden.

 

 

The dances were West's Hornpipe, Oxo Reel, Butterscotch & Honey, Pelorus Jack, Napiers Index, Rose of the North and Maxwells Rant in the first half, and Annan Gold, Ian Powrie's Farewell to Auchterader, A Trip to Bavaria, Grey Cairns of Camster, Montgomeries Rant, The Dream Catcher and Machine Without Horses in the second half.  Suffice to say I danced every dance.

 

The cake was made by Pat of the Brighouse Scottish Dance Club, and it looked very nice (it tasted lovely too).

 

It was nice to see friends from the Gay Gordons (Manchester), RSCDS Manchester and Rochdale branches, Rochdale & District Scottish Society, Brighouse Scottish Dance Club and the Goyt Valley Scottish Dance Club all coming to help me celebrate my 50th birthday.  Everyone seemed to have a good time, and I got loads of hugs and good wishes.