Here we are doing the sticking chorus of Noughts and Crosses - almost at the same time as each other. We are very proud of this dance, as we made it up ourselves and love dancing it.

Our "black sheep" in the white trousers also dances in Icknield Way!

At 12.30 we were on the Kinecroft Little Stage just three minutes walk from the market square. The festival's based on the Kinecroft - it's a large flat lawned area. There were steam traction engines, two stages, beer tent and scores of food stalls, craft stalls etc.

We reached so high in this moving fixie that the swords went off the top of the photograph.

This time we were with Old Speckled Hen. They're very local to us and were lovely! We hope it'll be the start of a beautiful relationship!

The day was really hotting up .

Our 1.30pm spot was with Ashnah on the Big Stage - the only problem was that temperatures went right up watching them...

So we practised the art of trying to appear nonchelant in order to help us forget any nerves we might have been feeling at dancing in front of the crowds at this biggest venue...

We wear different coats so we know what side we're dancing on. We're not supposed to tell you that. We're supposed to tell you it's so any spectators can follow our lightning moves more easily and to add to the visual impact of the dance.

After collapsing under a tree in the shade for lunch and drinks for an hour we were sufficiently cooled down for our next spot on the Kinecroft Little Stage at 3.00pm.

The festival was crowded by this time and the atmosphere was wonderful. We were quite relaxed by now.

The temperatures soared as we were with more belly dancers - Hazzaz - in vast numbers!

The weather was quite warm too - 28 degrees celsius.

Alan on the accordion keeps perfect time for the reins move in our rapper dance. Left to his own devices, his fingers move so fast we sometimes have to check they not on fire.

Facing up before a slick MaryAnn manoeuvre we felt quite overdressed in comparison to some of our audience!

We finished the afternoon watching other teams for an hour. Eight of us went on to the ceilidh till late and strugged to get to sleep before the early hours! Two of the others went home "tired out" and spent half the night chatting on MSN!

SUNDAY: A few short hours later it was time to get up and get ready to do it all again. However - it was NOT the same at all - the heavens opened even before our first spot.

We met under a tree to get ready and watched hopefully for other teams or perhaps even an audience...

At 11.30am the rain eased and we shuffled up to the Little Stage on the Kinecroft. The stage was slippery so we followed ATMD and danced the half hour alone on the grass.

We proudly present Peter - recruited on Saturday in the market square (see above) and transformed into team member by Sunday! He played with us all day, kept good humour in the rain and was brilliant.

To keep warm all non-dancers joined the band and banged sticks together.

Mole-hunting? Digging for worms? No, we're dancing Twiglet, our most recently learned dance.There were few real spectators though ATMD kindly hung around to help us feel less lonely. They even clapped (to keep warm?)

12.30pm found us outside The Dolphin in town. The rain eased off and we really enjoyed dancing in the cooler weather than on Saturday.

Here's a nice breastplate, and Sam being brolly boy - is there no end to his talents?

We were paired with Basingclog, which gave one of our dancers the chance to try her hand at recruiting a new member to our young team. No luck this time sadly as his minder was watching too closely..

Again, we had some levitation problems, except for James holding the star.

Once the earth's gravity had returned to normal, our good squire checked carefully that we were all alright.

Morris Men For Sale!

None were sold though, so we're left with them!

After a damp picnic lunch we were on the Big Stage for our final spot. After our first dance it rained, so we got the audience inside the marquee and did an amazing awesome synchronised rapper display with two teams of 5 dancers on the tiny indoor stage.

The "Health and Safety" Team then arrived to sweep and mop the slippery stage.

While we waited, we played some music and the two mop-and-broom-bearers danced along much to everyone's amusement before we danced our favourite Noughts and Crosses as our last dance of the day.