I'm starting earlier than you, DtG. All this weekend I shall be smiting sundry Turks and Spaniards, soldiers, knights and kings with the Shakespeare Mummers at Crediton Folk Festival.

And on the evening of the 23rd a goodly host of folk will asemble at Lower Brailes (in the Deep South of Warwickshire) to celebrate our patron saint with:

• evensong at the parish church of St George
  
• morris dancing outside the George Hotel
  
• a St George & Dragons mummers play inside the George Hotel
  
• other assorted morris, mumming, music, merriment and mayhem inside the George Hotel

But I'll probably have to be the Doctor in that play. Killing's much more fun than curing. :-)

WassaiL! V