Flash mob

This weekend was very hectic. Not only was it our first weekend to look after our 6 month old granddaughter, ( no big deal you may think but bear in mind I have never had children myself so have never even changed a nappy before!) but Saturday was also the day I was taking part in events organised by my Applestroodle improvisation group in Ludlow as part of the Ludlow Festival.
At the last minute my husband had to dash off to sort out our boat in Cardiff so I called upon my lovely mother to help me out whilst i was taking part.
The main event of Saturday for us was the Flashmob. Now how to explain a flashmob, well Wikipedia says that a Flashmob 'is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment, satire, and artistic expression'.
Thats quite an accurate description I suppose, although by providing entertainment I fail to see how it can be pointless.
Our Flashmob was a dance to Shake Your Tailfeather, a song made famous in the Blues Brothers films. We had all practiced a dance and turned up take part. The key to a good flashmob though is to appear to just turn up and dance and then disappear again, as if you were out shopping, stopped for a quick dance and then carried on shopping!
The music started and we all appeared, a crowd soon formed to see what was going on and there we were, all dancing. As soon as the music finished we just walked of in various directions, myself back to  a bench with my mum and grand daughter.
It was great fun, I really enjoyed it.
We also did two 30 minute sessions of improvisation in a local pub beer garden, playing several games, involving suggestions shouted out by the customers. That was great fun too, I thoroughly enjoyed myself.  I would love to do more of that type of thing, perhaps even getting involved in doing a play or something.

 Click on this link to take a look at our Flashmob