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Being a bagman
The 'bagman' of a morris side is sort of treasurer and information collector all rolled into one.
Historically, he was the person who looked after the bags while the side were dancing, hence the responsibility for looking after the cash.
If you get a paid booking, that's also money-related, so the bagman tends to be the person who talks to dance venues and the like.
The part of the meeting where all this kind of thing is discussed is thus the 'Bag'.
Tonight, I appear to have nine items in the bag!
1. Measure all dancers for hats (cheaper if we buy them in bulk)
2. Measure dancers for shirts (to tell helpful local shop which sizes to get)
3. Work out transport to get us all to a mini folk- festival this Saturday. (I'm the only one with a car)
4. See if anyone wants to go to Poole Beer Festival.
5. Dancing at Halloween.
6. Anyone want to do a mumming play?
7. There's a local barn dance - anyone want tickets?
8. Are we interested in the Olympic Flame?
9. Who wants to go to the Open Morris AGM?
(And there's a couple of other items that I'm saving for our AGM, like a discussion of whether we want to learn a couple of jigs)
Historically, he was the person who looked after the bags while the side were dancing, hence the responsibility for looking after the cash.
If you get a paid booking, that's also money-related, so the bagman tends to be the person who talks to dance venues and the like.
The part of the meeting where all this kind of thing is discussed is thus the 'Bag'.
Tonight, I appear to have nine items in the bag!
1. Measure all dancers for hats (cheaper if we buy them in bulk)
2. Measure dancers for shirts (to tell helpful local shop which sizes to get)
3. Work out transport to get us all to a mini folk- festival this Saturday. (I'm the only one with a car)
4. See if anyone wants to go to Poole Beer Festival.
5. Dancing at Halloween.
6. Anyone want to do a mumming play?
7. There's a local barn dance - anyone want tickets?
8. Are we interested in the Olympic Flame?
9. Who wants to go to the Open Morris AGM?
(And there's a couple of other items that I'm saving for our AGM, like a discussion of whether we want to learn a couple of jigs)
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Tell me, how do you manage all your activities and the allotment and other thing we do not know about?
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(Anonymous) 2010-10-07 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)Alex