Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Folk week is nearly here. You can almost hear the morris men’s bells jangling.
Folk week is a great time of the year in Broadstairs. There’s a lot of fantastic music and the whole town is heaving with people. God knows what it must be worth to the economy of the area.
But must there be quite so much morris dancing?
Apart from the morris dancers themselves, nobody likes morris dancing. Children flinch at the sight of these flagon-wielding handkerchief-flutterers. Adults feel queasy to see middle-aged men waggling their phallic symbols at one another in formation. If I want to watch bizarrely dressed men slapping each other with their bells, I’ll look on the internet like everyone else does.
But I guess it’s a small price to pay. Fast forward to a bleak December day when the town is deserted. That’s when you long to see some life in the town, someone, anyone.
Even a man in a dress waving his bells at you.
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I think morris men are sexy…………..I have to say this as I hope to sell them lots of beer during folk week. Gadds’ Seasider at £6.99 for 4 pints & £13.50for 8 pints at The Bottleneck in Broadstairs see you soon.
You must have been at the Gadds yourself if you find morris men sexy.
We love the atmosphere they help create, the strange sounds you hear as you walk through the town, the rhythmic stamps as their feet hit the ground, the clash of sticks & scaffold poles and the shouts. It wouldn’t be BFW without them.
They scare me rigid