Welcome to The Buzzard, the homepage and diary/magazine for Cry Havoc, Cotswold morris side from Botley in Oxford.

And welcome to the summer issue.

The sun is shining! What better antidote to the stress and heartache of watching the England team embarrass itself in front of the footballing nations than to indulge in some morris dancing! And all that goes with it, of course - beer, pubs, music and song, pubs, beer, conviviality, beer ...
The gallery presents a whistle-stop tour through the summer activities so far, which have been greeted with surprising amounts of appearances from that yellow ball in the sky. Except for Chippenham, that is.
A Meet the Morris and a new What's That Instrument also await you in the following pages.
Enjoy
Ed
Issued 28.6.10

Headlines

Some of the more bizarre headlines from the online Telegraph in the last few months

Loch Ness Monster ‘not dead’

Pensioner astonished by ‘double banana’

Reptile collector smuggled geckos in his underwear

Pheasant terrorizing Yorkshire village

‘Sheep attacked by aliens’

Hush Little Morris Dancer

by Audrey Nyman


(to the tune of “Hush Little Baby Don’t Say a Word”)



Hush little Morris Dancer don’t say a thing.

We’ll put bells on your legs and make them ring.



If that ringing don’t sound good,

We’ll give you a stick of wood.



If that stick of wood gets broke

We’ll give you a tatter coat.



If those tatters cause you grief

We’ll give you a handkerchief.



If the handkerchief you can’t abide....

You can bugger off and dance for another side!