Some people call me Maurice

[venta]

Bah, I should have posted about this sooner. Life is getting away from me again.

This Sunday is once again Kirtlington Lamb Ale, home of sunshine (yes, always, I promise), ridiculous morris-dancing, sensible dancing with swords, and beer. And cake. It seems I last did a proper write-up of the event some years ago.

Anyone fancying a short jaunt into Oxfordshire countryside to see a pretty village, some dancers and some occasional weirdness is invited to check out the schedule. Actually there's stuff going on all weekend, but I shall be there only on Sunday.

I'll be there with my rapper team, Mabel Gubbins, which will feature two of our (very) new recruits dancing in public for the first time. Anything could happen.

ETA hjalfi points out that the Kirtlington links don't contain any actual location to head to. Kirtlington is a smallish village, about here. It's small enough that if you head to it, you'll work it out :)

In tangentially-related news, this article in the Daily Mail sounds like bollocks to me. OK, that wasn't really news, was it ?

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

> Some people call me Maurice

Whoa. I have always heard that as 'Maureen'.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I believe I have (somewhere) the sheet music for it. It's "Maurice".

The next line actually does contain the word "pompitous", though.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I dread to hear what you made of the phrase 'pompatus of love' in the next line?

[venta.livejournal.com]

I spent a long time trying to work out what that line was. When I eventually read the lyrics, I was inordinately disappointed.

Oh look, "pompatus" has its own Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompatus).

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Good grief, he used it more than once?

(There is probably a reason why no-one knows more than one song by this band.)

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I think I heard it as 'platitudes'. I'm glad in this instance it wasn't my cloth ears at fault!

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Those 'sexier' Morris outfits look a bugger. There are so many things wrong with them!

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

I'm otherwise occupied, unfortunately. Do they they still do the lamb chase?

[shui-long.livejournal.com]

Only occasional weirdness? How disappointing... but if the weather complies with the promise, I might wander up north of Oxford on Sunday afternoon.

[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

Just followed the Daily Mail link and am heading for sick bucket.