No lunch

[ladyofastolat]

Grump! This is the second week in a row that I have to dance between 12 and 2, which takes me out the house from 11.30 to 2.30, or so. Who arranges these things? Don't they believe in lunch? Yes, we often dance outside pubs and cafés and places that serve food, but you can't eat a sit-down lunch when you've got to get up every few minutes to do a 5 minute dance, and it's a bit cheeky to take sandwiches when you're on the premises of a pub that serves food. I know that some people are lucky enough to be flexible about meal times. Pellinor (and my Mum) can forget to eat lunch, and don't even notice. However I (like my Dad) get icy cold, dizzy and utterly pathetic if lunch is delayed. I can just about wait until 1, although I might have to wrap up warm to last that long. Any later than that, and I dissolve into a heap of sobbing uselessness.

So I'm going to have to eat lunch at 11, which will of course just set up problems later, since I'll then have to eat dinner early, too. Grr!

Besides, as we discovered last week, the audiences don't really turn up until 2-ish, anyway. Last week, we danced by the exit of a huge, touristy car park in a tourist honeypot, just outside a touristy café and a touristy gift shop. Barely a soul there at 12. Three coach-loads of tourists and a few hundred cars by 2, just as we were finishing. Grump!

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[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

When a dance side is hosting a weekend, with lots of visiting sides, they do tend to arrange for a buffet lunch to be laid on, but it doesn't seem to happen when it's only local sides. As it turns out, there were 6 groups there, so I would have had plenty of time to order - though then I'd have worried about being up and dancing when they came out with my order and were shouting my number (Pellinor was at Springfest, so wouldn't have been there to claim it.) Oh well... I took surreptitious sandwiches, and nobody complained.

I definitely won't be returning to said ice cream place, especially since they were very over priced. A week later, in a different place, we paid less for an amazingly generous double scoop, than this place had charged us for a small single scoop.