I think there is a good point to be made here. Most English (male) morris dancers,including myself, are grey-haired and not in the first flush of youth. We enjoy what we do but I can understand the lack of mass appeal. However, the thought of having young dancers of the standard of Black Swan and Dog Rose is exciting. It is not too early to start getting people trained up.

Some vigorous morris on the telly would help. There is now a craze in England for ballroom dancing, simply because it has been on the TV. Even Darren Gough is giving it a go! Just a few programmes putting morris in a good light rather than just as a jokey parody for adverts would be good, but will we see it? - probably not.

Time for the Morris organisations and the EFDSS to lobby the Olympic committee, I feel.

Morris on.

Gwilym