Morris Dancing...

[Mitch]

Stevie will probably know what this is like...
Tonight, Mrs R and I finally got the chance to have a go at Border Morris Dancing... (not just going plinky-plonky in my case, as her good self calls me playing the mandolin! :D)

We went to a workshop tonight, where we had to learn one of the hardest dances that the side does, and it was a complete twat!! What with stepping... (felt like my heart was about to explode)... eight steps one way, then eight steps the next, then chorus (loads batting the hell out of each other's sticks then gurning... in between all the other bits), then back to back, then diamonds... then the hay!!

My legs are completely knackered, I think, if I can get out of bed tomorrow, I'll be v. lucky!!!!

Bad Toad and VM will remember how intense Hunters Moon Morris (http://www.huntersmoonmorris.co.uk/) is after our weekend out down their way in Wimborne. Those guys that have been doing it since the start have our utmost respect as it is not easy!

[bad toad]

Stevie will probably know what this is like...
Tonight, Mrs R and I finally got the chance to have a go at Border Morris Dancing... (not just going plinky-plonky in my case, as her good self calls me playing the mandolin! :D)

We went to a workshop tonight, where we had to learn one of the hardest dances that the side does, and it was a complete twat!! What with stepping... (felt like my heart was about to explode)... eight steps one way, then eight steps the next, then chorus (loads batting the hell out of each other sticks then gurning... in between all the other bits), then back to back, then diamonds... then the hay!!

My legs are completely knackered, I think, if I can get out of bed tomorrow, I'll be v. lucky!!!!

Bad Toad and VM will remember how intense Hunters Moon Morris (http://www.huntersmoonmorris.co.uk/) is after our weekend out down their way in Wimborne. Those guys that have been doing it since the start have our utmost respect as it is not easy!
go an see them if ya get the chance! we had a brill day out!!! :D loads of fun an laffs well recommened ;)

[Creature]

used to moris around the maypole at lincoln cathedral in the 70s :) also used to barn dance a lot as well in those happier fitter slimmer days :)

[John Hopkins]

I never understood Morris dancing..whenever I went to a dance it was to get a woman to 'sleep' with..Bit chauvanistic I suppose but it was the swinging sixties..there were about 10 dances a night at the dancehall and I used to ask the first one I danced with if she'd like to sleep with me, if she said yes I stayed with her all night, if she said no I thanked her at the end of that dance and moved on to the next! can't do it now, I'd have trouble getting their zimmer frames off the dance floor...and the wife would kill me! :D John

[bunbag]

why hate morris sounds like an ok bloke to me , :confused:

[Womble_Lancs]

Everyone knows that Morris Dancing is the UK's fiercest martial art :D

<-- makes mental note not to mess with Mitch... :eek:

[Urban Terrorist]

Morris dancing?!! For maths teachers and nerds everywhere :rolleyes: :D :D

[bigg]

I tried morris dancing once but i fell of the bonnet. :eek:

[Urban Terrorist]

I tried morris dancing once but i fell of the bonnet. :eek:

Took me a moment there!!! :D :D :D

[Mrs Smudge]

i used to date a morris dancer in lincoln, and i can confirm that they're all a load of complete loonies!! :D

[Mitch]

Morris dancing?!! For maths teachers and nerds everywhere :rolleyes: :D :D
You'd be surprised as to how many bikers there are in sides these days... Especially the Border sides (like Hunters Moon, usually dress in black and carry big sticks) - none of that poncey hankywaving stuff.
You ought to have a go UT. :D

[bigg]

I tried tap dancing as well but i kept falling into the sink.

[colin]

Sounds like a laff where are you prancing around then?

[devon-tony]

used to live round the corner to a guy that did some sort of dancing, but with huge spanners???

I took the piss relentlessly, until one night while drunk I tried to have a go with him at a couple of the steps, was knackered after about 3 minutes, and had 3 bloody great bruises on my knuckles from them damned spanners, reckon he was just twatting me with them for the fun of it LOL

[Urban Terrorist]

You ought to have a go UT. :D

Thanks, but no, I'll pass on that. :D

[dodgyphil]

what's this UT turning down a challenge.....could start the Hatfield mattblackers,all wielding ar125 silencers!! :D

[Bosun]

fork legs instead of silencer for the more violent approach :)

[Tattoo addict]

Dont know if anyone else has seen em but there is a band doing the rally circuit called Shamus Oblivion and the megadeath morris men. Picture the scene a couple of hundred drunken bikers issued with white sticks covered in ribbons. :eek: End result very bruised fingers and mangled glasses bloody brilliant fun though :D

[Mitch]

Sounds like a laff where are you prancing around then?
There is an events list on the link I posted last night...
Tomorrow, we're at Middle Farm (http://www.middlefarm.co.uk/02_whats_on/annual_applefestival.htm) for their Cider Day celebrations. We're doing two sets - one at 12.30 and one at 2.30.

Then we're off to do some cider shopping (the national collection of cider and perry!) :D :D


Dont know if anyone else has seen em but there is a band doing the rally circuit called Shamus Oblivion and the megadeath morris men. Picture the scene a couple of hundred drunken bikers issued with white sticks covered in ribbons. :eek: End result very bruised fingers and mangled glasses bloody brilliant fun though :D

I saw them at the Femme Fatale MCC rally back in 1994, they were pretty good then!!

[Bosun]

mmmm tempting to nip down, if not wet :)

[Mitch]

used to live round the corner to a guy that did some sort of dancing, but with huge spanners???

I took the piss relentlessly, until one night while drunk I tried to have a go with him at a couple of the steps, was knackered after about 3 minutes, and had 3 bloody great bruises on my knuckles from them damned spanners, reckon he was just twatting me with them for the fun of it LOL
I remember him... and his mates, used to do a dance called the triumph bonneville if memory serves... ;) They were on TV a few years ago as 'this year's novelty act' or summat.

It was all done right though... from what I can remember

I must admit, trying to hop-kick with one foot and then with the other alternating continuously while hitting your partner's stick, without breaking their fingers is difficult - and that was just the start (the chorus). :eek:

[Mitch]

mmmm tempting to nip down, if not wet :)
danced in't rain before too... May Day weekend this year. Eastbourne Seafront and Hastings on the same day, p1ssed it down heavily till about 1pm.

[Bosun]

also depends on possible hangover :)

[Dougie]

I remember him... and his mates, used to do a dance called the triumph bonneville if memory serves... ;) They were on TV a few years ago as 'this year's novelty act' or summat.

It was all done right though... from what I can remember

I must admit, trying to hop-kick with one foot and then with the other alternating continuously while hitting your partner's stick, without breaking their fingers is difficult - and that was just the start (the chorus). :eek:
Were they not the 'Royal Liberty Morris Side'?

[Bud]

I tried morris dancing once but i fell of the bonnet. :eek:
and got arrested for a minor offence

[Mitch]

Were they not the 'Royal Liberty Morris Side'?
the very same... :D (the whole craze probably caught on and everyone started doing the spanners thing... who knows?)

[Grav]

Everyone knows that Morris Dancing is the UK's fiercest martial art :D



Is it eckers like,thi dozy scrawp. The nations fiercest martial art is th' Ancient and Noble Lancastrian art of Ecky Thump. :D

[John Hopkins]

Is it eckers like,thi dozy scrawp. The nations fiercest martial art is th' Ancient and Noble Lancastrian art of Ecky Thump. :D

Ooh Goody! :D John

[Bosun]

they used big sticks
was lovely to see mitch and the ever lovely mrs r again
this was mitch as he realised i was in the crowd
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c373/Fayji/mitch.jpg

and the pair of em
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c373/Fayji/mitchandmrsr.jpg

a lovely venue for the do, a celebration of apples, which tended to be cider, and some class real aleslots of happy people
fair ground, amd stalls , and good live music

and i almost got home in the dry :)

not bad for a fiver

[Mitch]

Very good day out that one... :)

good to see you Fayji!! Glad you could make it down.