Objects Deserving Notice, September, Including This Very Month!

[Forgive the lack of pictures.  Blogger is refusing to accept any uploads from me today.  I will continue to try to track down the problem, but in the meantime, I didn't want you to wait any longer for today's post.  If I can figure out what's wrong, I'll add the pictures later and update the post.]

Normally, I would wax poetic (well, as poetic as I get!) about the various spectacles, amusements, and objects deserving notice of interest to young ladies and gentlemen in September in England and London in particular.  September is a lovely month in England, weather still good enough for rowing matches on the Thames, speeches and posturing as a new Lord-Mayor of London is elected.  But excitement truly begins growing mid-month when Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres open.  They start out at three performances a week in the evenings, then go to four nights a week, then five, until they play every night.  Even young ladies and gentlemen attended, and it was a bet whether the tearful dramatic performances of such luminaries as Sarah Siddons were more popular than the comedic stylings of the clowns.  And for a small fee, during the day, you could go behind the scenes for a tour.

Today, however, I am all atwitter for two reasons.  First, perhaps by the time you read this, I will be a grandmother!  Shocking, I know.  I’m not entirely sure how that happened.  But I am delighted and excited and clinging to that new-fangled contraption called the cell phone as I await word of the birth.  It’s making it deucedly hard to type!

Second, it is my pleasure on behalf of both Marissa and me to invite you to our birthday ball!  The chosing of ball gowns will commence on Tuesday, September 11, followed by dances, dalliances, and delights through Friday, September 14.

Please join us next week for fun and frolic as we celebrate another year of Nineteenteen!

Special Announcement: Will you give me the honor of this dance?

Our friend Gail Eastwood, who brought us the wonderful series on Regency period dancing some months back, sent us this note which may be of interest to readers in the New York/New England area:

On Sunday, December 13 there will be a tea dance to celebrate the 234th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth ( a few days early). Dance historian Susan de Guardiola from Connecticut will teach country dances of the era plus the Boulanger, the Country Bumpkin, and Sir Roger de Coverley --maybe even a cotillion or quadrille. Period costume is encouraged and admired but not required, and period refreshments will be served.

The time and location: 1-4pm, at Goff Hall, 124 Bay State Road, Rehoboth, Massachusetts

A map and directions are at: www.contradancelinks.com/rehoboth_map.html

For more info, email me (geastokes@aol.com) or Liefe Wheeler (liefe@comcast.net)

If anyone attends, you MUST send us pictures!