Newsletter 5

The Fifth 1998 Newsletter includes:- THE SQUIRE’S CHRISTMAS GREETING. MEETING UPDATES – and reminders for the Ring Jigs Instructional, 22 - 24 January 1999 and the ARM at Bedford, 5 – 7 March 1999. The Archive Day will be on 7 March 1999. VOTING ARRANGEMENTS - new guidelines have been circulated. RING MEETINGS – The applications for 1999 Ring Meetings are summarised – has your Side applied yet. THE WEB – www.TheMorrisRing.org – is up and running. Some quotes from the web dealing with our image are reported. Chris Metherill is making Morris Archive material available on the site. We now have Email redirection for the Officers via this number. OTHER MORRIS ORGANISATIONs’ ARMs – The Bagman attended both the Morris Federation and the Open Morris AGMs as the Ring’s observer. Notes for Marketing Morris in the Millennium were laid down and agreed by The Morris Organisations and are included with a contact number to register for grants for events to celebrate the Millennium. A first regional event, in York for Yorkshire sides is already being organised. FOOLS AND BEASTS UNCONVENTION - A report of this event hosted by Plymouth. NEWS - includes reports of Stockton; Helier [Channel Islands]; Vancouver [Canada], Offley and Peterborough visiting Germany; and Stafford. Also the Headington Ale when the exSquire’s Medal for the late Jim Phillips medal was presented to his son, Roger Phillips. ARCHIVE NEWS - Simon Melvin, Bedford, has converted archive film from the 1960s to video. These include colour [no sound] shots of Padstow, Minehead, Abbotts Bromley, Headington, Brackley, Bampton, Chipping Campden, and Abingdon. Also a black and white sequence of a rapper instructional [probably at Cecil Sharp House] featuring Bedford. OUT AND ABOUT – the Bagman visited Exeter for Roy Horton’s funeral; a report with some words from “Shag” Graetz of Pinewoods Morris, USA is included. The Bagman has also visited:- Datchett, Kennet, Gloucestershire, Offley, East Suffolk, Peterborough, Letchworth and Woodside, Bedford, Anker, Mendip, King John’s, and Headington