Morris!

One of the summer traditions in England is to see a group of Morris Men dancing in the yard or garden or car park of a pub, in fact such an event is happening on Thursday at our local the Dolphin, when the Chalice Morris Men will entertain us. While we were at Nunney Fayre […]

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The Soote Season

Language is forever changing and evolving, and as new words arrive older words soemtimes fade away and are lost; however sometimes when you come across a ‘lost’ word, the context brings it back to life again. In this sonnet by Henry Howard, you might at first think ‘the soote season’ is winter, when fires are […]

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