Sticks, hankies, bells and an oversized chicken

Spoilt for choice today. First sighting and photo of a sparrowhawk, a spitfire and other military artefacts at an Armed Forces Day celebration, but who could resist an otherwise respectable group of men, skipping around in the sunshine adorned with bells and flowers, waving hankies and smacking sticks while one guy plays the squeezebox and another is dressed as a giant chicken. Makes you proud to be British!

I don't claim to know the origin of this particular morris dance but it was thoroughly entertaining. And they shall have music where they go.