Many thanks to Mick Pearce, Leadfingers and oldhippie for responding to this thread.

Yes Alex you are right strange things happen in this world I have just been contacted by a shanty group in New Zealand who heard one of my songs (Deadeye Sound) in Polish in Poland and asked me for he words in English. So many things appear to happen by sheer chance.

Both my sisters, incidentally, live in Perth Australia. My grandfather by the way, survived the 1st world war and I'm sorry to hear about your grandfather, he shared the fate of so many others.

Oldhippie at the moment you can only obtain my CD's from me either by post or at gigs, the internet distributor unfortunately having gone out of business.