Very good answer johnadams, thank you,

as I said earlier, I'm by no means a purist, but I suppose what I was getting at was that I understood the remit of the Efdss to be to preserve the english tradition for posterity, and work to promote that tradition so it does not become a museum piece, but still a living thing. My concern is that we english don't seem to have the same pride in our heritage that other cultures and ethnic origins quite rightly have and over a period of time it could be forgotton.

You are quite right that the tradition is on the move the whole time, and rightly so as we absorb other influnces from our multicultural society, but we must not lose the starting point, and my understanding was that this was the purpose for which the efdss was created.

John