Morris dancing - I just to love it, great fun and as already been said a chance to drink, make merry and have fun.

Whilst at college I chose to do my presentation on the subject!! I entitled it "Tradition or History?" There are many arguments ranging from fertility (human and nature) the sun, begging, pagan rights, Mooorish dancing and the thery that (1) man, meets women (2) begats a son/daughter (3), this can then be doulbled (6) and so on - giving the number of dancers in any given dance.

My favourite, has got to be one definition of where Border came from. Originating in the English/welsh borders, people found that they where short of money. Because they did not want their neighbours to know that they were begging, they doned their most ragged clothes and blackened their faces with soot from the fire.

Fasinating subject, which I throughly enjoyed researching.

Gillie