May Day: Strange English Traditions

It's May Day.  Time for those old English traditions...

Men with hankies and bells...

Men with sticks and bells...

Plus Maypoles, dawn singing from Magdelen College Chapel Choir (and no doubt others) and, er, drunk students jumping off bridges.

Our Clare was a student in Oxford. (We named our Fairtrade Oxford shirts Wadham after her college) and claims she never jumped into a river or danced with hankies and bells, though there may have been some early morning revelry...