The eleventh date on the Grand Jubilee Tour continued at the Somerset Wagon in Chilcompton with Tatters and Tails, a brand new border side from Bath. Tatters and Tails may be new, having only formed in January 2012, but along with their colourful rag jackets and stunning painted faces, they come with a hearty dose of sticking and a staggering [...]
It was the big one! Our 10th date on the Grand Jubilee Tour and everything was well and truly stepped up a notch. Alongside the only other Jubilee Morris side in the country, Wyvern Jubilee Morris, this was the perfect opportunity for a 35th anniversary/Jubilee shindig and it all happened at The Horseshoe Inn, Shepton Mallet. As [...]
Morris may not be an Olympic sport, but that doesn’t mean Priston Morris hasn’t been involved. Earlier in the year, we danced alongside Somerset Morris at Bitton Railway to entertain the crowd before the Olympic Torch passed through. This morning, several members of the side shook a leg with bells on as part of the [...]
Number nine of the tour and it was back to the depths of Somerset and to the Alhampton Inn, near Castle Cary. Just to make it completely confusing, we danced out on a Tuesday, but as we were invited out by our good friends Dr Turberville’s Morris, it would have been churlish to have turned up [...]
Another week and another great evening; number eight on the Grand Diamond Jubilee Tour! This week we were dancing alongside old friends Winterbourn Down Border Morris at the ‘typically Bristish rural’ Rose and Crown pub in Pucklechurch. The evening was superb and many of the locals had turned out to have a BBQ in the sun. So, with extended [...]
At the half-way mark, number seven in our Grand Diamond Jubilee Tour, we were joined by Mr Wilkins’ Shilling very close to home, at the newly re-opened Wheatsheaf at the top of Corston Hill. From where we were dancing, we also got a good view of a couple of the linseed Olympic rings, which a [...]
