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16 Apr 18 - 11:02 AM (#3917649) Subject: Kalenda Maya is coming From: keberoxu I know, I know. We have a good two weeks until it comes: Calenda Maya Kalenda Maia Calendimaggio Beltane The Padstow Hobby Horse Maypoles and so on. And at the moment it's raining cats and dogs. What preparations are needed ahead of time to get the Mudcat Tavern ready for SPRING and MAY? What can be done indoors while it's raining? Who will roll up their sleeves and prepare for the revellers on May Day? |
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16 Apr 18 - 11:44 AM (#3917662) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Mrrzy Ooh, what fun. I shall hang lanterns in the trees. Carefully. |
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16 Apr 18 - 05:56 PM (#3917724) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Rapparee I shall reload all my shotgun shells with confetti and glitter. You can have a Maypole indoors if you're short enough or the ceiling is high enough. Alcoholic beverages help. |
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16 Apr 18 - 07:19 PM (#3917740) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: keberoxu I know next to nothing about the Padstow 'Obby 'Oss. It seems that on May Day, there have two be TWO of them. One has blue ribbons and is the Blue 'Oss; the other has red ribbons and is the Red 'Oss. So don't mix up the ribbons... otherwise it's I never saw a Purple 'Oss, I never 'ope to see one ... |
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17 Apr 18 - 02:59 AM (#3917765) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Senoufou We must have a Maypole! I'll never forget the extremely bizarre spectacle, at the Norfolk Show, of some Masai warriors in full costume dancing round a Maypole with some Norfolk children dressed in white, skipping along and laughing their heads off. And let's have Morris dancers of all kinds. I will bake some enormous quiches and fruit cakes if you like. Who is going to be 'Queen of the May'? |
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17 Apr 18 - 08:57 AM (#3917865) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Mrrzy Isn't glitter a nono these days? It's hard to keep up with the party rules. Yes, we must have a maypole. We bats are good at that. |
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17 Apr 18 - 09:23 AM (#3917873) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Rapparee The stuff I use is degradable, as am I. And I'm not going to ruin my shotgun with that stuff. |
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17 Apr 18 - 09:35 AM (#3917879) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Senoufou Could we dress a well like they do in Derbyshire? They do look nice. I think we should get some sort of procession arranged. Two 'Obby 'Osses, all the Morris dancers playing their melodeons, and the May Queen in her carriage (pulled by an army of Siamese cats) Keberoxu, you can be the May Queen if you like. Just pop a garland of flowers on your head and wear a white dress. Rap, you could fire some welcoming rounds on your gun (but into the air, or you might kill a Morris dancer or two!) I will be stationed behind the buffet, handing out slices of quiche and huge pieces of fruit cake. Ale of course on tap. |
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17 Apr 18 - 09:38 AM (#3917882) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Senoufou Mrrzy, could the Bats scatter petals from on high on to the procession? (But could they not poo on everyone?) I haven't found a role for the smiling African man yet, but he could just walk along smiling I suppose, wearing one of his gorgeous African outfits. (He does this at the Sheringham Potty Festival, and people seem to like it!) |
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17 Apr 18 - 11:09 AM (#3917914) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: keberoxu The Queen of the May will have to be someone else, not myself. In a white dress I resemble, as one theatrical was heard to say, "an igloo out for a stroll." No, no, not for me. Don't forget Benjamin Britten's opera Albert Herring, by the way: it had a May King instead of a May Queen. Your Masai remind me of something, not from Africa, but from https://mudcat.org/cfm?threadid=163893&messages=7 darn it, when I do the make-a-link-blue-clicky below, it doesn't ... link. Well. Anyhow, it's from Papua New Guinea. |
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17 Apr 18 - 11:59 AM (#3917943) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Senoufou '...an igloo out for stroll.' Hahahaahahahahaaaaaaa! I'd look like a circus's Big Top out for a stroll!! |
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17 Apr 18 - 09:25 PM (#3918074) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Rapparee I'd wear spurs that jingle-jangle-jingle except I don't have any. |
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18 Apr 18 - 03:43 AM (#3918094) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Senoufou Could you jingle-jangle something else instead Rap? :) And who's going to serve all the ale? There are loads of folk songs about ale which we could all sing. |
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18 Apr 18 - 10:16 AM (#3918187) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Mrrzy Rose petals, absolutely. No promises on the guano, it's needed to grow more rosebushes. Just a sprinkling for the May Queen, ahahahaha! |
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18 Apr 18 - 02:42 PM (#3918302) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: keberoxu Serving the ale: isn't that where the Mudcat Tavern comes in? Seems there is also a connection -- this is how ignorant I am -- to WalpurgisNacht. You have to get through WalpurgisNacht in order to get to MayDay. This is getting layered. |
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18 Apr 18 - 03:07 PM (#3918316) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Senoufou The Mudcat Tavern would be where one buys the ale, but who will be behind the bar? We'll need two or three bar-persons, all able to pull a pint and tell jokes etc. |
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20 Apr 18 - 10:19 AM (#3918694) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Mrrzy It is 4.20; the bat is getting knots in the lantern strings. And getting hungry... anybody seen any loose necks around? |
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20 Apr 18 - 01:32 PM (#3918763) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Senoufou Well the bats can have a go at my neck if they like. They say that a bit of blood-letting reduces one's blood pressure. (If they don't mind a high cholesterol level that is) Smiling African man has chosen his outfit. It's his turquoise 'bazin' one with the emerald green embroidery around the neck area and the cuffs of the legs. Very bright and cheerful. |
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22 Apr 18 - 09:09 PM (#3919230) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Rapparee I've chosen my outfit. About as nondescript as one can get. High leather boots, breeches, shirt, weskit, great cloak, tricorn hat, rapier, and a brace of pistols and bandolier of charges. Like this. |
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23 Apr 18 - 03:21 AM (#3919251) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Senoufou Very fetching Rap. "I'm England's foe and Ireland's friend" I'm half-and-half myself, so a foot in both camps. I'm sure I saw Tommy Makem in Edinburgh while I was at Uni (sixties). |
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23 Apr 18 - 05:44 PM (#3919506) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Mrrzy Moi y'en a bouffer Eliza and her Ivorian, so after a short nap, and after spreading extra quano to celebrate earth day, the bat is now bearing about a branch of May. Before the door it hangs upside down... warbling Cynthia Gooding. |
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24 Apr 18 - 04:17 AM (#3919560) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Senoufou "All my trials Lord..." Her voice is so rich isn't it? The hawthorn hedges around each field here in Norfolk are covered in May blossom. And that wild flower called 'Alexanders' was blooming everywhere (green flowers) when we went to the coast on Sunday (Sheringham and Cromer) I'd like to dance round the Maypole with Mrrzy; each bat can take a ribbon (and the Smiling African Man too) not to mention the Siamese cats) BobL is a member of a Morris side, so perhaps they could join in and provide the music? In Ye Olde England there used to be...er...frolics... after the Mayday revels........ |
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25 Apr 18 - 08:58 AM (#3919861) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Rapparee Let us all go a-Maying! |
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25 Apr 18 - 10:10 AM (#3919881) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Senoufou I was singing that in the car yesterday Rap, while husband was driving. And also 'Sumer is Icumin In'. Bless him, he was trying not to burst out laughing. I have quite a contralto voice (probably sound like a cow mooing) All he could find to say was, "Eeeet eeeez not yet May. Eeeet eeez steeeel Aprrril!" perhaps hoping to defer the torture for another few days! |
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26 Apr 18 - 09:49 AM (#3920103) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Rapparee The revels were before, during, and after the Maypole thing. A Maypole is the reason for the failure of Thomas Morton's Merrymount colony: "The inhabitants of Merrymount ... did devise amongst themselves to have ... Revels, and merriment after the old English custom ... & therefore brewed a barrell of excellent beer, & provided a case of bottles to be spent, with other good cheer, for all comers of that day. And upon Mayday they brought the Maypole to the place appointed, with drums, guns, pistols, and other fitting instruments, for that purpose; and there erected it with the help of Savages, that came thither of purpose to see the manner of our Revels. A goodly pine tree of 80 foot long, was reared up, with a pair of buckshorns nailed on, somewhat near unto the top of it; where it stood as a fair sea mark for directions, how to find out the way to mine Host of Ma-re Mount." The next year the Puritans attacks, arrested Morton, and chopped down the Maypole. Good story; look it up. |
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26 Apr 18 - 10:09 AM (#3920109) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Senoufou Was that in Quincy,Massachusetts Rap? Weren't those Puritans a load of utter killjoys? Same here, they banned Christmas completely, and everyone had to wear black and white clothes. We won't invite any of THEM to our Mudcat revels! |
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26 Apr 18 - 10:41 AM (#3920121) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Dave the Gnome You can put him straight, Sen. Some May songs are traditionally sung in April. Have a listen to The Watersons recording of the 'Swinton May Song' (I am from Swinton) to hear the line 'Drawing near to the merry month of May'. You couldn't sing that in May! |
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26 Apr 18 - 10:44 AM (#3920122) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Dave the Gnome So, what's next? St John's bonfire (June) Maybe |
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26 Apr 18 - 12:43 PM (#3920150) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Senoufou Hahaha Dave! I'll tell him I can sing my songs in April because Dave the Gnome said I could. The Royal Norfolk Show is at the end of June, but they had the Maypole up and running when the Masai warriors joined in. It makes me giggle to see his face. Africans don't sing like that - most ladies there have quite shrill voices and sing from the throat. |
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26 Apr 18 - 02:49 PM (#3920183) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Severn Remember, if flying to the Tavern, you don't mention Mayday out loud, and if.you see your friend Jack, say "Hello!" rather than "Hi!", thereby avoiding any delays...... |
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27 Apr 18 - 09:03 AM (#3920348) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Rapparee Don't say anything these days except "Yes, Sir (or Ma'am)" and "No, Sir (or Ma'am)" as the case may be. Even saying something as innocuous as "Oh, my! I totally forgot I had that submachinegun and those hand grenades in my baggage!" can land you in trouble. Why, you can't even have a flare gun and flares in your checked baggage! You can bring a guitar into the passage space but not a sword, not even a fencing foil! I tell you, I don't know what the world is coming to! |
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27 Apr 18 - 09:17 AM (#3920354) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Senoufou It's terrible isn't it Rap? They found my nuclear warhead in my baggage last year and would you believe it, it was confiscated! Ridiculous fuss about nothing. I think we'll be arriving at the Mudcat Tavern in a hot air balloon this time. Siamese cats snuggled down at the bottom of the basket, while Smiling African and his plump old wife pull the ropes and fire the gas cylinder to gain height. Lots of crumpets on board, not to mention the huge quiches and fruit cakes. |
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27 Apr 18 - 09:30 PM (#3920546) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Rapparee I believe I'll arrive on horseback. |
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28 Apr 18 - 03:21 AM (#3920579) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Senoufou Is that Dick Turpin or the Lone Ranger Rap? I'm jealous now of your idea. I can ride (was never off a horse when I was younger) However my husband is terrified of horses, and what would I do with the Siamese cats? No, I'll have to stick to the balloon. |
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28 Apr 18 - 09:26 PM (#3920784) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Rapparee Neither. |
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29 Apr 18 - 04:03 AM (#3920827) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Senoufou Ah Zorro! Brilliant! Very dashing (I quite fancy him!) |
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07 May 18 - 10:52 AM (#3922702) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Mrrzy Waking from a drunken stupor... wait, where is everyone? Did I miss it? |
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07 May 18 - 11:19 AM (#3922707) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Rapparee Tsk. Laying in the gutter, stinking of Demon Rum and beer. Look at yourself! Disgusting! |
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07 May 18 - 11:38 AM (#3922712) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Senoufou Never mind Mrrzy. There's the Late Spring Bank Holiday (28th May) We can have the Mayday celebrations then. |
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03 Apr 20 - 03:50 PM (#4043861) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: keberoxu Do we, or don't we? How goes it with Morris dancing, by the way? Is it possible for Morris dancers to dance six feet apart or whatever the regulations say? Maybe the Maypole would work. The Maypole would work best if it were extremely tall, with long, er, ribbons or whatever those thingies are, and that would facilitate everybody circling around the pole from a considerable distance and at the minimum distance from each other. ... maybe a parade would work, and again a lot of spacing and distance would be involved. |
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03 Apr 20 - 04:25 PM (#4043867) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Mrrzy And no bats! Possibly no pangolins either... |
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03 Apr 20 - 05:27 PM (#4043875) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Mr Red a lot of spacing and distance would be involved But parades (eg) would involve breathing the air exhaled by the guy in front. Morris involves contact usually, but even with modifyng dances you have people exercising, and wafting breathy air in larger volumes. I would guess the only Morris you could do safely is the Jig. Solo dancers. And probably only one muso too. |
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04 Apr 20 - 07:02 PM (#4044027) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: keberoxu The May date might have to be movable. Where I live, for example, there is a "stay-at-home" order extended to May 4. So instead of the first of May or whenever, it could be observed later in May. With everybody six feet apart. And wearing face masks. Hey, does anybody have any ideas for a Calenda Maya face mask design? |
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30 Mar 21 - 10:10 PM (#4100038) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: keberoxu Yes, I KNOW it isn't Calenda Maya yet. But the darned thing will be here before you know it. Last year we could sort of fantasize about it, on my side of the pond, as there was a lockdown going on. This year ... 2021 ... is there still a lockdown on YOUR side of the pond? Between now and then, anyway, we could consider what design and colors and all would be appropriate for a Calenda Maya celebratory face mask? And what about that Maypole? |
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01 Apr 21 - 09:11 PM (#4100348) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Mrrzy Make the maypole tall enough and you could maintain physical distancing... |
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04 Apr 21 - 01:25 PM (#4100757) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: keberoxu And probably the maypole had better not have ribbons -- because weaving the ribbons would mess with social distancing. |
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04 Apr 21 - 08:49 PM (#4100804) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Mrrzy No, that is what I was saying. If the maypole is tall enough you can do the ribbons and stay far apart. Large field. |
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07 Apr 21 - 08:05 PM (#4101274) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: keberoxu Is there room for this large field at the Mudcat Tavern, or is the Tavern closed due to COVID-19? |
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08 Apr 21 - 08:45 AM (#4101346) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Mrrzy The pole is not inside. I know, I know... |
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08 Apr 21 - 08:24 PM (#4101458) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: keberoxu It turns out that one can find evidence of two musical groups that name themselves Calenda /or / Kalenda Maya: one from Norway, and the other from Chile. They both favor repertoire from the medieval era, with facsimile instruments and period dress, and both have published recordings of their music. so ... we could have a Mudcat Kalenda Maya Tavern in the northern hemisphere and a Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern in the southern hemisphere, with a different musical headliner at each. |
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10 Apr 21 - 10:03 AM (#4101745) Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Calenda Maya Tavern (prep) From: Mrrzy Ooh I likes it! |
