"Why, oh why, do people think that taking up dancing border badly is any substitute for other traditions? One day anybody who wants to dance will have little choice but to join a mixed border side!"

As it happens I recently joined a Border Morris side and have found them to be a great bunch of people happily doing their thing. Perhaps you would like us all to be dancing the same dances to the same tunes in exactly the same way as they have always been done (or for as long as the 'tradition' can be traced back).

If Cotswold sides are having trouble recruiting maybe they should make things more interesting for their members.

Surely there is room for us all......