We found some of the singing on the weekend that the Mudcat was offline (US Thanksgiving). Mrs.Duck and myself set out, then discovered that our roadmap did not admit that Dungworth existed. We tried Ingbirchworth - The singing at the Fountain starts two Sundays before Christmas (This weekend coming - by the way!). The carols also happen there (if we have got our information correct) on Boxing Day and New Years Day.
We then headed in the general direction of Sheffield looking for roadsigns to Dungworth. No Luck, so we backtracked to Worrall and spotted a lot of cars parked in the vicinity of a pub - the Blue Ball. I got out to investigate, and singing started. We wandered in and found carols with organ accompaniment. I was down with a cold and sore throat, but we sat in a corner and somebody positioned their copy of the words so that Jane could read them.
The gathering at Worrall seemed to be mainly locals. The room was fairly full, and we were still in November, so one would expect it to become considerably more crowded as December arrives.
The singing finished at 2.00pm. As we had travelled far, we asked the pub landlord directions to Dungworth and he obliged. We trekked down there to see people leaving the Royal. We went into the pub to find a load of faces we knew - Folkies and Morris types.
We hope to get to Dungworth for this Sundays' session. We intend to travel via Worrall, where members of the Male Voice Choir are going to be at the Shoulder of Mutton around Midday. Their choirmaster has copies of their set of words for sale - the Joy of Christmas (the Blue-Book mentioned in earlier postings). At Manchester, MC-FAT had copies of the other (red) book of words, which he had bought for his own use, but other people Mugged him for them.
Quack!!!
GtD.