Yes, quite. It was I who said JKP "invented" it in a bid to prove that he actually did stuff in the daytime. This was intended to be read ironically in conjunction with the piece on the Shropshire Bedlams history I linked to. Obviously a complete failure and entirely my fault for assuming some people on Mudcat would be arsed to actually look and learn.

I was just conversing with a Well Known Morris person who made the point about blacking up for guising far more clearly than I did in my previous post. It's today's equivalent of the strikers at the Total refinery ... if you're campaigning, busking or even begging outside your own employer, you'd want to be wearing a hoodie & baseball hat.

Endless emails from those who get up on their hind legs about such things will simply reinforce to the school that they made, for them, the correct decision, when actually they missed the chance to get a group of blokes to entertain the crowds that evening.