May Day greetings to you all. Fine Morris dancing at the Bargate today.
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Radio Cornwall this morning had a presence at Padstow for the 'Obby 'Oss celebrations to welcome May.Comment
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Originally posted by cloughie View Post
Unite and unite and let us all unite
For Summer is a-come in today
And wither we are going we will all unite
In the merry morning of May.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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... and for those with colour telly:
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In my garden, May was out before April was.Comment
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Long gone is the custom of the Milkmaid's Garland - in which the women and girls who delivered milk to urban houses (rather than the country women who actually milked the cows) would decorate their pails with flowers, and dance through the streets that were their "rounds" to collect money from their customers and generously-inclined passers-by.
Pepys records in 1667:
And an article in The Tatler from 1710 reported:Thence to Westminster, in the way meeting with many milkmaids with their garlands on their pails, dancing with a fiddler before them,
It was not uncommon for a policeman, or other official, to accompany the milkmaids to ensure that they weren't robbed of their takings (which could be substantial). It isn't recorded if the officials joined in the dancing.I was looking out of the parlour window this morning and receiving the honours which Margery, the milkmaid to our lane, was doing me by dancing before my door with the plate of half her customers on her head.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Lots of May bees buzzing around in the garden today. It's getting to resemble a second referendum out there!Comment
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May bee/May bee not?[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Earlier I tried to post a photo of a maypole on the village green at East Dean, around 60 years ago - owing to a quirk of Imgur I could see it but no-one else could. Here it is again - let me know if you can't see it. That's the Tiger Inn in the background. My kid sister is in the mix on the left.
East Dean is of course the village to which Sherlock Holmes retired to keep bees
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A bygone era - but sunny - look at the shadows. Where are the high rise flats?Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostEarlier I tried to post a photo of a maypole on the village green at East Dean, around 60 years ago - owing to a quirk of Imgur I could see it but no-one else could. Here it is again - let me know if you can't see it. That's the Tiger Inn in the background. My kid sister is in the mix on the left.
East Dean is of course the village to which Sherlock Holmes retired to keep bees
[... not sure if there are any, but many villages have been urbanised now]
Very nice.
Actually it still looks very attractive - https://www.google.com/search?client...=1024&bih=1346Comment
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East Dean is also where Frank Bridge lived, and where Britten often visited for lessons. (Bridge's grave is in the neighbouring village of Friston.)
I visited the East Dean village green many times when I lived in East Sussex ('85-'95) and it wasn't changed from the photo RT posts - the Tiger Inn was a terrific place; as was Grimaldi's Restaurant on the opposite side of the green. Very expensive - I only ate there twice, when I was treatred by some of the wealthier locals as thanks for their kids' exam results.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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....I don't know if any of you have caught any of these Pubs, Ponds and Power progs....the one on Warkworth certainly made me want to visit....https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...of-the-villagebong chingComment
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