or Wavers - as Diane says

Not me. My information (for the 3rd time) comes from the fittest and toppest Cotswold side, Morris Offspring and from the most representative governing body, the Morris Federation.

The point of the topic was to highlight inaccuracies in yet another BBC programme, The Write Stuff, which amid some really funny spoofy pastiche, managed to give the erroneous impression that a venue needed a licence to stage Morris (which, under current PEL legislation, it does not).

What the resulting "discussion" has revealed, however, is an even more than usual inability (or refusal) to read preceding posts resulting in (usually) wilful misunderstanding and compounded Chinese whispers.

In describing aspects of the nightmarish "f*lk scene" as ghastly, Matthew Parris certainly had a point. It's how it looks to outsiders.