01/12/2011
The 1st Thursday of December - Lewes Late Night Shopping - is always an
unpredictable night for us; streets closed, parking very difficult. We
never book a guest on that night because of this.
Then we had a number of singers - including the two community choirs
that would have filled the room - call off because of illness. Add to
this the fact that it was pouring and we thought we were in for a quiet
but enjoyable Singers' Night.
Suddenly the door opened and in came around 40 drenched people - two
morris sides and their musicians and followers who had been out trying
to dance in the soaked streets. All the chairs were thrown back against
the wall as the evening was transformed by the morris sides dancing
themselves dry. One side, inevitably, was the BRIGHTON MORRIS MEN.