Cardiff Ale

The Cardiff Morris - Y Morys Caerdydd Ale Fri 28/11/25

We met up with old friends at the Cardiff Morris Ale last night, which was hosted in Penarth. Apart from Cardiff & ourselves, there were sides from Carreg Las Morris, Full Moon Morris, ISCA, & White Hart. 

The two barrels of ale were very good indeed and ensured no one dehydrated. The curries supplied by a local Indian restaurant were plentiful and simply superb, and there was tons of cheese for dessert!

Following the meal, various people sang songs with Cardiff’s Morwen & Tamar singing The Cuckoo’s Nest and our own Squire Ben performing The Pirate Song, and Jonathan Baker doing an incredible sea shanty featuring lyrics about the evolution of the Internet, complete with the sound effects of dial up modems!

One of the joys of the Cardiff Ale is the Tombola, and this year’s certainly delivered some ‘interesting’ items that will potentially help address people’s problems on what to give family & loved ones for Christmas, although in my own case the tin of Spam I won might prove difficult to pass on!

We performed Rigs of Doom, Bampton as our show dance, and fairly got stuck into the massed dancing, doing long forgotten gems like Queen’s Delight Bucknell, William & Nancy Bledington and Trunkles from Wheatley, amongst the usual, familiar dances from, Bampton, and Lichfield.

Most from the side drove back to Swansea, although Keith, Jonathan Baker & Paul opted for sleep deprivation by staying at the local Scout hut!

Those who attended were, musoes Sian, Kevin & Roger, dancers Alison B, Alison H, Alex, Ben, Claire, Di, Jonathan, Keith, Margaret, Nigel, Paul & Zep.

A really great evening, which was very well hosted by our good pals from Cardiff!