Morris Meditations - Australian Morris Ring Newsletter

So before I officially welcome the new Squire I must say a big thank you to Uncle Don for running as Squire for the last , ooh must be close on 6 or 7 years I'd say.
Despite the fact that I spent most of my time hassling him for material for Meditations and the AMR site, he wasn't such a bad squire as squires go. So Uncle Don thanks for all your work over the years and happy cycling! (The mad bugger has decided to go bike riding, serious bike riding, ...like 100's of Km of bike riding!)

So then, out with the old and in with the new.

Welcome Rob (Bobnoxious) Pilgrim, of the Adelaide Men, to the office of AMR Squire. ...he's very keen so far, but they all start that way... He's been bugging me to get things done rather than the other way round, which is nice.

Thanks to those who sent me updates and and articles, sorry I haven't replied much ...house renovations and looking for work has been calling. Hopefully I'll get regular updates happening (where have you heard that before?), so now the rest of you can send your bits in. (the endless hint!)

Dave Purdue, of Britannia and Tyler's Oz, and the new squire are working on securing a domain name for the AMR site (like www.morris.org.au or something), so I'll keep you posted when somthing happens. The Kiwis have got one so we can't be upstaged ...oops, too late.

So what's the news? Well, we have a few reports on festivals, like Woodford, the National and Adelaide's Mediaeval Farye. There's lots of Ales happening. A belated Ale report from Moreton Bay (my lateness not theirs), an interesting letter, A few CD reviews one of which is the long awaited "Grandson of Morris On" by Ashley Hutchings (of course) and friends and another by the Weeze and Suck Band (the Sydney Men and associates). There's lots of news snippets, an article on why we dance from the new squire (I told you he was keen!) and a newspaper article from the relentless Simon Pipe of the UK. So there's lots to read!

Hedgemonkey and Adelaide Men's site have been updated also.

I know this edition has a very SA bias but that's what you get when not much comes in, but thanks again to those who did send info in, it makes the job easier and the newsletter more intersesting.
As for the rest of the news, I've had to scour the web to find info for articles, so there's a fair bit of overseas content, Well, it saves you surfing the web for it.

You can still email your articles to me at kimbo@visp.com.au (text in the body of the email and photos as attachments is best but Word will do) or post it to 23 Denman St Exeter. SA 5019. And I'll return them pronto.

So then, that's enough guff from me, it's spring and there's dancing to do and renovations to get on with so see you next update! ...back to the shed.

ooroo
Kimbo

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kimbo@visp.com.au


And it's about time too, I hear you say! It's been 9 months since the last update (where did the time go) and yes the rumours are true, we have a new Ring Squire.