On Monday evening, just as dusk was falling, the Wessex Morrismen came to our village to dance outside the King's Arms pub and hotel. They danced energetically with both handkerchiefs and sticks, accompanied by a fiddler and accordian. It was a colourful and stirring sight and it was good to see this "little bit of old England". No-one is really sure when Morris dancing started but there are references to it in documents going back to the 1500s.
Also this week we saw a group of Romanies, making their way along the road with their horse-drawn canvas-covered caravans as they have done for hundreds of years. Imagine living in such a tiny van in an English winter. This was near Shepton Mallet in Somerset just a short distance from Glastonbury, where the annual midsummer music festival is held.
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