The sad death of Morris, late deceased in beggary

[mirrorshard]

Abi Sutherland on the demise of Morris dancing in England.

Short version - the Morris Ring have gone off on one again, and the BBC took them at face value. Long version - lots of links and videos and descriptions of interesting Morris variants around the globe.

Comments

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

late deceased in beggary

I *so* misread that the first time. ;-)

Steampunk morris does indeed need to happen...

[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

I believe the misreading is canonical!

Everyone says steampunk morris needs to happen. The thing is, there are three basic traditions of steampunk - the sartorial one, the Robot Wars one, and the anything-goes-recycled-improvised-handmade-found-object-just-make-it-work one.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

At least the Beeb only say "a Morris association" and not "the main Morris association" or anything like that.