English traditions

If you have previously licked the back of it Lyn, how could I refuse?

And Sue there you go, I don't tell lies - the Kimbers really were the Morris dancers. William Kimber that is! Lyn and the May Pole? Well she drives us up the pole more like!

Peter, it's a good wife that has her man half way up a pole.

I guess it's best not to mention the English tradition of April Fools Day then.

I drive you all up the pole do I? I've not started yet lol you should see ME Morris dancing! (JOKE!)

April Fools day Sue...ahhhh yesss theres been some good jokes over the years, remember the famous spaghetti tree one?  

Guess what I just found on this site, a whole set of pictures called People and Traditions. Thanks to David Roberts posting a new picture of Morris Dancers, and then seeing the Picture Tours on the right.

Picture by Gunnlaug Fridriksdottir

I just thought of another tradition. Do they still do the egg and spoon race? We use to have one every year in the village of Wheatley, Oxon. I think it was around Easter time too. They did it down the High Street. 

So many of these old traditions are dying out. I think it's sad.