09 January

Food starting with “Ch”….
It’s been a very long time since this blog was updated, and to kick off the New Year we thought we’d share with you our annual Covert Bling Christmas dinner. Each Christmas (or thereabouts) we all get together and bring a dish or two to share, do some laughing (naturally), welcome Secret Santa into our [...]

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20 July

Training and Sharing
This year has been one of slight changes to the way we cross train as a troupe. For about 2 years now, we have been doing warm ups based on the Dance Movement classes that Suhaila Salimpour has online. We have all noticed how just 45 mins a week has made to our general fitness [...]

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11 July

Flapjacks (by Kathryn)
I’ve had a number of people who were at Sunday’s event, tell me how much they like my flapjacks. Here is the recipe. It’s taken from a Mary Berry recipe which is in a book about as old as me, but I’ve changed the sugar from demerera to dark brown muscovado sugar, which is why [...]

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07 July

Community Events (by Deborah)
On Sunday 3rd July Kitty and I took part in East Reading’s Community Festival in Palmer Park. Despite it not being spectacularly well promoted there were quite a few families there and the weather was good (at one point I was concerned that people might either get burned to death by scorching sun or be [...]

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22 June

“This isn’t the room you want……..” (a post by Deborah)
Tuesday night is CB night. Covert Bling practice night. We arrive at the dance studio at 7pm and for an hour we work on dance conditioning (aka torture), led by Emma, before we move on to dance rehearsal time. The mirrored room can get hot as the evening sun steams through the windows this time [...]

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