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You national icons, you.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4951300.stm

 

For serious Morris aficianados, there will be 40+ Morris sides at the
Upton Upon Severn Folk Festival this weekend. Plus the usual pub music
sessions. Weather looks as if it won't be as good as the last two years
though.

http://www.uptonfolk.org/

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A mate will be dancing there.

We do an Upton on Severn stick dance, in fact.

My side is doing seven pubs on Bank Holiday Monday, from 11am. I
confidently expect to be ratfucked by lunchtime.

 

I'd come and watch (heckle) but already going to some May Day bash at
Northill (Bedfordshire).

 

Tim said...

Northill village green has the last original Maypole left in the
country.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

I thought it was Southill? I've certainly danced around it on several
occasions. I believe there's one other that survived Cromwell down in
Somerset somewhere.

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Wicked Uncle Nigel said...

I was told at school it was the Northill one. I knew Jimmy Lane's[1]
daughter Belinda many years ago, she'd lived in Northill all her life
and told me the same thing.

[1] Yamaha dealer in Hitchin way back when

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

Bloody hell, I remember Jimmy Lane. I remember his son too. There's a
great not-for-publication story about him. Remind me next time I see
you.

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Wicked Uncle Nigel said...

Oh please. I still see Belinda now and then, she hasn't changed a great
deal. She was the first person to let me ride an RD, her 200. Once my
sister saw I could ride it properly she let me have a go on her 250, and
so my life-long affair with RDs began.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

Ah. Yeah, I've still got a soft spot for my first one too.

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Correct. I bet it's pissing down with rain on Monday too.

 

It may well be Ickwell Green strictly speaking. But my friends live in
Northill and that'll do for me.

 

Not been there for a few years

got their own border stick dance IIRC

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Tim

Ickwell Green! That's the kiddy. It'll rain.

It always does.

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Wicked Uncle Nigel said...

Ickwell and Northill are pretty much the same village, there's no
definite break between the two.

 

Bear said...

A lot of things are her fault

 

Bear said...

Crime against who or what? She's done other illegal things that were far
worse.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

Unless it was Paris.

That'd be OK.

Provided the prevailing winds were southerly.

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Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

What've you got against Belgium, then?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SD

Nothing at all, which is why I chose southerly.

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Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000