Morrris Dance Stick - One careful lady owner...

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2nd picture may enhance interest...
The things some people will do to push the bid price up!

Chris D

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Chris N Deuchar

"One careful lady owner".

It is therefore not a Morris stick.

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That's Border Morris: an altogether wilder scene. A mate dances Border
and was at Upton last weekend. They allow wimmin, and in his side they
dress in basques and black fishnets, which can be quite eye-popping,
especially if they're doing a fertility dance.

<checks pix>

Yeah, like yours!

In fact, that could be Ian's side. Hard to tell with the black face
paint.

But good old trad stick-bangers and hanky-wavers frown on this "sexual
morrisment" and remain all rufty-tufty lads together.

<Slaps thigh>

 

I'm guessing this is down to 'woman' vs 'lady'.

 

Champ wrote

It's only a burd.

 

Wotcha.

Looks like the Shropshire Bedlam to me . . . but I ain't no expert.

 

8 minutes to go, and no bid from bikepusher?

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Some fucking midlander-wierdness in any case.

 

Ah, but that's border morris, not the poncy cotswold stuff

 

I cut my teeth on Border

 

I cut my lip once, wreckin' to the Meteors.....

<Ahhh... School Disco Memories>

 

Looks disturbingly similar to last weekend in Northill / Ickwell Green.

 

There was a bunch of them at Kew Gardens last Monday. It was Bluebell
Weekend and there was a woodland festival in part of the gardens. It was
spookily like a snapshot of ukrm

Someone bashing hot metal - Bonwick and WUN
Bee keeping - TOG
Pole lathing - WUN and I suspect others
Archery - Prawn
Blokes with bells and sticks - TOG and WUN
Chainsaw sculpture - Beelzebub IIRC
Nice ice cream - Marina, Bear, Blaney and others

Not sure who makes wicker baskets though!

 

Wotcha.

You'd be wierd too if you lived here ;-)

 

Heh. When you put it like this.......

What's pole lathing, anyway?

 

It appeared to be an old fashioned wooden lathe which you make move by
pushing with your foot. None of this new fangled electricity stuff. They
were doing demos where you could carve wood on the lathe. As I'm crap
such stuff I didn't try it but a young lady was doing a decent job
turning and carving some wood.

 

They teach us that on the ward...

 

On Sat, 6 May 2006 18:06:15 +0100,

FFS.

You, of all people, *really* ought to know that. The origin of the
term "Bodger".

Here:
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Bodger

 

A fender-esque leccy guitar in that - which implies electrickery &
amplification - which puts it outide the morris exemption for the new

Beltane Border?

I gave it up after 25 years and saw the error of my ways...


Chris D