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The 2009 Unconvention took place in Utrecht, Netherlands.

It was hosted by the Utrecht Morris Team, who gave us a great time and lots of old friends renewed their acquaintances and lots of new friendships were made. A full report will be posted here in due course, but suffice it to say that a good time was had by all and that grateful thanks are due to our hosts. Any pictures can be sent to the Scrivener, the U.M.T, or forwarded to this site via Knotty by clicking here.

This is the link for the majority of the photographs - http://picasaweb.google.com/utrechtmorris

Some 500 pictures just to be getting on with! Maybe more to come.

And here are some You-Tube videos of the event -

http://www.youtube.com/user/utrechtmorris#p/a/u/0/T4x3kWUPKCE

http://www.youtube.com/user/utrechtmorris#p/a/u/0/23YHG-IQ3VY

Similar videos are on at http://www.youtube.com/utrechtmorris  (appropriate acknowledgements are on the UMT sites)

Our grateful thanks to Floris Jan van Hall, (Bag & Web, Het Utrechts Morris Team), for putting this all together.

For more information on the 2009 Unconvention click here

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Knotty on the Plinth

I managed to get a place on the Trafalgar Square Plinth from 3 a.m. to 4 a.m. on 8th October 2009.

To see our performance go to:
http://www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/John_E_2

That should also get you to our profiles.

I was not expecting anyone to watch me at that time in the morning, but a few people were around to heckle and learn about Morris and our F&B activities. Indeed, one said it was the best lecture he had ever been to at 3 in the morning!

Sadly no Morris Dancers appeared.

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The Illustrious Order is an associate club of
The Morris Ring of England., The Morris Federation and the Open Morris.
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The Illustrious Order welcomes foolish and beastly members
of other Morris Organisations.

Since the last Unconvention, the Order has decided to accept interested and qualified individuals from other Morris or similar Folklore Groups internationally.

 

Acknowledgements

 
The order is indebted to many people, including those listed for pictures and information about the people and activities of this very special branch of the Morris Barbara Sunderland, Robert Chisman, John Price, John Edwards, Ellen Burke, Jenny Howard, Peter de Courcy, Julian Kohler, Andy Cooper, John Burke,

 

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