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• Christmas '09 As ever – grateful thanks to all who contributed to our Wheatsheaf Wassail & our Traditional Tour of Ewell Village, on Boxing Day. The princely sum of £1,029.17 was raised for the Mayor of Epsom & Ewell's Charities.

• Sian Tolfree – Help an Angel Part of our collection at The Leatherhead Christmas Festival plus our collection at 'The Running Horse Wassail' was donated to local Leatherhead girl, Sian Tolfree. A cheque for £125 was the result & again – thanks to all.

• The Dance
  Experiencing some intensive practice in this, our close season! With a fair wind there’ll be Black, White, Yellow & Green, Portobello & D'you make her? On the Dance list for 2010 – along with all the old favourites!

• AGM '09 Mick Sargeant voted as new squire to replace Dave Anders & grateful thanks from all was heartily echoed for all the latter's efforts over the past two years. Dave is an excellent dancer, singer & a steadfast supporter of ESMMM and it's style - which has been fully appreciated throughout his tenure.

• ESMMM appear on Channel 5! (with Ted Smith stealing the limelight)
  

• 30^th Anniversary Day of Dance '09 Wish to acknowledge our thanks to all who made the day a resounding success. Reverence to our Bagman for co-coordinating - but Geoff & Richard Heels for the vintage coaches; Ray Welton - Master Brewer from Horsham for the Ales & his super company during the day. Gill Pottinger [& the Pottinger family] for those legendary mouth-watering cakes. Mike, the photographer. What a feast! Carol Collins, Anne Watson, Carol Read, Linda Elphick & Maria Bird - absolutely superb... and, of course, all the Pub landlords! Finally, our great mates 1st Sedgley Morris Men, from The Black Country & Pilgrim Morris Men from Guildford, for celebrating the day with us.

• ESMMM on CD? We’ve spoken about it for years & could it become a reality? Toby Greenwood has kindly allowed himself to put his head on the block to record us - & as this news-page goes to press, there are sessions in 'The Jolly Coopers' by way of practice! Could this go the way of 'The Ballina Trout Festival?' Time will tell – but encouraging at this stage!

• Seth the Fletcher
  ESMMM caught on camera dancing Seth the Fletcher in the Black Country!
  

• Top Hats
  The Team is always on the look out for Black Top Hats. If you can help, please don't hesitate to get in touch! See below for contact details.

• Hon Archivist Chris Pottinger [VP] would welcome with open arms any enquiries as to our history. May even tempt you into hearing a ‘fascinating epic’ concerning ‘rose-tinted water & a finger-bowl!

• The White Dragon of England We were presented with this Old Saxon Flag by Ron Huddlestone of 'The Running Horse' on 11th December. This preceded 'The George Cross' as the flag of England before the Norman Conquest. This flag will now fly proudly alongside our George Cross in future. http://www.whitedragonflagofengland.com Some say (playfully?) 'Ye olde whytte doggye of Olde Angleand'

• Eleanour Rummnyge Legendary hostess of 'The Rummynge House' in John Skelton's C16th poem was celebrated, when her distinctive image was immortalised in a new pub sign at 'The Running Horse' Leatherhead, in December. See our Gallery ... do you find a song coming on?!

• Musicians As always, where would we be without them? 'Lead' musician Eric Warren (Melodeons), Kate 'Kevin' Jackson (Recorder & assorted instruments) with contributions from Alan Greenwood (Fiddle), Richard Becksmith(Melodeon) & Tony Hadlow(Guitar & Banjo)

• Reverence too, to our Bagman, Ray Watson. Working his socks off in his Office. 'The best bagman ever!' is a prodigious citation received from a revered ancient Ewell source. The 'Barrel Stick trolley' is the stuff of legend.

• Kevin King ~ Kingthings
  Whose sympathetic enhancements to our traditional Morris Man logo were applauded by all. His mystical designs, fonts, wallpapers etc are a must, see them on Kingthings

• One of many of the sides favorite pubs The Jolly Coopers, Epsom Common re-opened on Friday 31^st October 08 and Nathan & Sonia have been firm favourites of ours ever since.

• And finally… To quote Tony Parry “Just remember ~ the worst thing you can do with a Tradition is to ignore it!”