Colossal clansman launches piping hot summer in Glasgow

[shenmue]

http://www.scotsman.com/news/colossal-clansman-launches-piping-hot-summer-in-glasgow-1-4428943

[T_i_B]

1. Makes you feel sorry for Glaswegians!

Still, could be worse, could be morris dancing.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

2. You'd be laughing on the other side of your face if I hadn't been up at 3:15 am yesterday.

Sure, mock us now, but when the sun doesn't come up because no-one danced it up on May Day and we're all plunged into eternal Thimbulwinter, you'll feel silly.

[T_i_B]

3. I may have suggestions....

....for where to stick a maypole.

The one silly thing like that which actually appeals to me is historical reenactment. Indeed before I moved back up North I was seriously considering joining Colchester Town Watch!

[LeftishBrit]

4. Despite being rather non-traditionalist in most respects...

I'm afraid I do enjoy folk music and folk dancing of all sorts. Though strictly as a spectator!

I remember enjoying listening to bagpipes in the neighbourhood as a kid. I now wonder who on earth was playing bagpipes in deepest Wimbledon, but someone definitely did.

As regards maypoles, I remember visiting a school, where I was told that the usual activities had been cancelled as they'd lost the maypole and were desperately searching for it. Ever since then, I have at times used the expression 'they've lost the maypole!' to describe total chaos. I suppose May has lost the maypole!