Our village of Comberton (near Cambridge, UK) is twinned with the village of Le Vaudreuil, near Rouen in France.
The French are coming to Comberton in 2019, for 5-7 April.
As this is the 20th anniversary of the start of the twinning, there will be a programme of activities including a commemoration lunch at Girton College, and a pot-luck supper with entertainment at the Village Hall on the Saturday. These have all been organised by the Comberton Twinning Association.
11 a.m. on Plough Monday – the 7th January 2019 – sees the Cambridge Molly Men (CMM) return to the Village Pond in Comberton start their day of dancing around Cambridge.
Plough Monday, the traditional start of the new agricultural year, falls on the first Monday after Epiphany, the Twelfth Day of Christmas. It’s also the day for local Plough Monday events all over England, and especially in East Anglia. In 1977 CMM revived the Cambridgeshire Molly dances which had been performed years ago in Comberton and other local villages.
The Cambridge Molly dances sit somewhere between Cotswold Morris and English Country dance. They’ve formed a basis for all sorts of colourful developments over the years. However, CMM do Cambridge Molly in the form in which they were first collected, without all the extra hullabaloo.
To see them come to the Pond on Monday morning.
