Unite and unite and let us all unite, for summer is i-cumin - tomorrow

[tree_and_leaf]

I may not have time later, so have a link to a page about May Morning in Oxford

Especially for Wimsey fans - and also for people interested in Oxford, or missing it, like me. I hope all the Oxford people on the flist who are going have a marvellous time.

Comments

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. I didn't go last year, and am determined to this.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Unfortnately, despite the fact your header says "tomorrow", I thought that it was set for Monday until I heard unusually drunken sounds at 7 o'clock this morning. But I can live. I

[tree_and_leaf]

Oh no! (That's the sort of silly thing I do...)

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

I wish I could be there! I will be going on a short holiday to Oxford soon, but not soon enough to attend the May Morning ceremony.

(And no link to Darwin Award wanna-bes who jump into the shallow Cherwell and probably right onto a rusty shopping trolley from Tesco's?)

[tree_and_leaf]

I managed to go just too early, so we're in the same boat.

(And no link to Darwin Award wanna-bes who jump into the shallow Cherwell and probably right onto a rusty shopping trolley from Tesco's?)

I think they're best passed over in silence, really.

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

I can't wait! Luckily things went well for me today, or I might have joined the bridge jumpers ;)

[tree_and_leaf]

Hope you enjoyed it (and glad you're not considering joining the idiots, too!)

[wuglet.livejournal.com]

*sigh*
I miss Oxford. :(

[tree_and_leaf]

Me too, and I've only just come back from there!

[sacred-sarcasm.livejournal.com]

I wish I could be there! I feel a twinge of Oxford nostaliga coming on

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Twinge? My condition is permanent and chronic.

[rosemary-green.livejournal.com]

Ah! I was only there for one May morning, but I still miss it..will be off to watch the Morris dancing here instead.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Been there, done that, got rained on, witnessed the usual drunken idiot jumping into the Cherwell fully dressed. The problem is that this being England, most first of May mornings tend to be either chilly, or rainy, or both, which somewhat diffuses the charm of the event; and, again this being England, the overuse of alcoholic beverages is an unacknowledged but increasingly dominant feature of any all-night celebration (and in general, to be awake at dawn it is best to stay up all night). Still, speaking in the abstract, it is a very poetic kind of tradition, and it would look simply gorgeous from the towers of, say, Avila or San Gimignano.