Mike and Sue's Christmas Club Crawl


Back to work tomorrow, time now to reflect on our Christmas break. With no need to worry about getting up in the mornings, we decided to visit some of our favourite clubs and also a couple we had not been to before.
December 20th Lincoln Folk Club. A warm and friendly welcome but not a great turn out. This is not unusual and is always surprising in a city the size of Lincoln which has had a Folk Festival running for 30 years.
December 21st Louth Folk Club Christmas Party. Everything for Christmas including a pantomime complete with a memorable horse! A smashing evening as we would have expected from the Louth Folk Club crowd.
December 23rd Booit Straps, Chapeltown. A really warm and friendly welcome with a high standard of craic! Always a pleasure to visit the Commercial, especially as it means driving past the packed Meadowhall car parks.
December 27th Gainsborough Folk Club. Back on home ground for a really pleasant evening. It never ceases to amaze us how far people are prepared to travel to help us to imbibe the excellent real ale at the Eight Jolly Brewers.
December 31st Kiveton Park Folk Club. Rapidly absorbed into the New Year celebrations with old friends and new, a lovely way to see in 2003.
January 5th Folk Down the Dale, Doncaster. Yet another warm, friendly welcome – aren't folk clubs great places? The only club on our tour with a guest night and the first time we had seen Slide. What an excellent band and a brilliant evening to round off our Christmas break, although we are still considering a trip to Grimsby tonight……………….