All too soon the fourteenth and final date on our Grand Jubilee Tour came to greet us. However, the summer-long dance extravaganza wasn’t going to pass us by without something of a celebration, and so we found ourselves at The Old Station Inn, Hallatrow in the company of Rag Morris. For those who don’t know, Rag was one [...]
After having had so much fun with guest sides all through the summer, Monday night’s dance out proved that you don’t need a guest side to have a good time. The twelfth date on our Grand Jubilee Tour looked like it was going to be a quiet affair, but the punters at the Railway Inn, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Number six of our Grand Diamond Jubilee Tour found us on the outskirts of Bristol at The Rose and Crown in Wick, with local friends and Cotswold ladies side Somerset Morris. Our luck was in once again with the weather, and so we enjoyed yet another pleasant evening of dance, with local Morris enthusiasts, Dave and [...]
And so to the fifth of our Grand Diamond Jubilee Tour nights…this time we were invited by Treacle Eater Clog to join them at The Stag’s Head Inn, Yarlington. Being in the depths of Somerset, some way beyond the Mendips, the weather was a little more clement than the previous week, making for a perfect [...]
With the Jubilee weekend of celebrations behind us and having had a few days to relax, we stepped into the fourth of our Grand Diamond Jubilee Tour nights in at The Cottage Inn (Baltic Wharf, Bristol) with good friends and fellow Cotswold-ers Pigsty Morris. Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t as clement as the past few dates of [...]
