Sshhh! A question, a secret and a song

Here’s a little quiz question for you.  Where do you think this is?

On the subject of Sshhh, here’s a little secret.  Don’t tell anybody but I used to be a Morris dancer.  That was in the 1970s and I danced for Kennet Morris for a few years until my knee cartilage got dodgy.  Here is the somewhat embarrassing procession through the centre of Bracknell when Kath and I got married.  That’s me in civvies with my face partially obscured in front and of course Kath.

That was 39 years ago!

Why should I tell you this after all that time?  Because yesterday evening Kennet Morris were performing at the Retreat pub in Reading which is where Kath goes for her Uke group, so I went along to see how the lads were doing.  Amazingly there were still six of them that were dancing in my day.  I noticed they don’t jump quite so high now!  In fact Brian who features in the picture above, he with the beard in the front of the left hand row as you look at it, is still at it and is the current squire (captain) of the Morris side.  His beard is still there but is now, unsurprisingly grey.

Here they are doing a spot inside the pub. You can’t stop them even when the show is supposed to be finished.

And here after all those years is Brian wearing his badge of office.

See the dancer furthest away on the right?  That’s John.  He has been dancing Morris for well over fifty years!  Blimey.

For old time’s sake I joined Brian in a rendering of a song he taught me all those years ago, and it’s one I still sing to the grandchildren now and then.   Try it. All you have to do is keep singing “Danger men at work” to the tune of Knees up Mother Brown.  A good party piece.

Danger men at work

Danger men at work

Danger men at work danger men

At work danger men

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At work danger men

At work danger men

At work danger men at work dan-

Ger men at work dane

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Ger men at work dane

Ger men at work dane

Ger men at work danger men at

Work danger men at

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Work danger men at

Work danger men at

Work danger men at work danger

Men at work danger

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Men at work danger

Men at work danger

Men at work danger men at work

Danger men at work

Oi!