As has been discussed over and over both within this thread and in others is that Morris is not a long tradition. It has never been and never will be a mass entertaiment. Just like folk music. So it does astound me that people still believe that something will bring people 'back' to the true path of Morris dancing on the village green, rosy-cheeked children skipping around the maypole and be-smocked rustics singing fol-de-rols at the drop of a hat in Ye Olde Inne.

Morris dance is a marvelous thing in my eyes. I have been involved since the early 1970s. It is spectacular, fun and, yes, has played an important part of my life. But I know it will never replace the X-Factor on a Saturday night for most people. I would not, however, dream of telling anyone that my form of entertainment is any better or worse that theirs. Nor would I reason that anything as trite as someone taking it more seriously than me would do some sort of harm to Morris, Folk music or the price of fish!

D.