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Morris is usually portrayed in the popular press as 'weird and wonderful' – and so it is!
This following piece, from Sydney's Sun Herald, 3rd May 2004, appeared after the Sydney Morris Men performed their annual May Day dance. The headline is typical.

And, as the following shows, the Morris Men CAN get their own back! (Sydney Morning Herald) November 2003.

Contributed by Julia Ermert. NSW.

The Morris Teams welcome new dancers and the following two images, contributed by Margaret Grubb, Tasmania, shows musician George Callaghan's (from Tasmania)(in lilac shirt) as a 'closet Morris Man'. Taken at the 2005 National Folk Festival, Canberra.

Mary Eckhardt, South Hobart, squire of the Jollley Hatters, contributed the following:

"I am currently the Squire of the Jolley Hatters Morris in Hobart. We have a nice little archive of Morris here in Hobart. Some photos of maypole dancing in the 80s and many, many photos of morris dancing. One of the traditions we have here is dancing on the summit of Mt Wellington at dawn on May morning. Attached find some of this years festivities."

And a joke!

      "Line Dancing was invented so that Morris Dancers could laugh...."

You have to dress sensibly for the cold in South Hobart.

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