Definitions

• Joint side: Consists of both men and women, but not mixed. A team (or 'club') of morris dancers, referred to as a 'side', typically consists of either all men, all women, or women and men mixed. The Island Thyme Morris Dancers have a men's side and a women's side, but we are one club - therefore a 'joint' side.
• Lichfield: Village in Staffordshire, about 20 km north of Birmingham. Home of Dr. Samuel Johnson and the Lichfield Morris Men. The Lichfield dances are marked by large body movements and figures. Lichfield has an annual folk festival you can find listed in Folk Roots' British Festivals List.
• Eynsham: Village in Oxfordshire. A very vigorous style of dance. The tradition is carried on today by the Eynsham Morris dancers.
• Not-For-Joes: Not For Joe is the name of a song and dance (well, several, actually) known to be commonly done by morris dancers living in the region of the border between England and Wales (Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Shropshire). So familiar is Not For Joe that morris dancing in the region is sometimes referred to as 'Not-For-Joeing' (or nofojoein'). The men's side of Island Thyme chose this tag to distinguish ourselves from the women's side and to emphasize the fact that we specialize in the border tradition.
  Our costume (including the black face), and much of our knowledge of border dancing is based on research by David Jones of Ledbury, Gloucestershire (see Dances of the Welsh Border Region)