We (Ken & I) had a wonderfully fantastic time.
Thanks Richard & Jeanette for inviting us & for making us so comfortable & the warm welcomes when it was only our first meeting.
The festival was great, so friendly & inviting & we were made to feel as if we were regulars & not first time nervous virgins.
SPECIAL THANKS TO Peter of 2 Black Sheep & a Stallion for bringing us in under with his wing & a prayer, (it was a close call at customs, they have no sense of humor) & his hosting us & his just all around general support, we wouldn't been there without you. And thanks to Paul & Wendy Arrowsmith for just being the friendly & talented people that you are, we love you, it was our delight to be at the Black Swan as your audience & to be chumming with you guys for the weekend.
It was a treat to meet up & hear Dick Miles too. I just knew I love meeting him. Killing the hen party for Dick was a bloody pleasure but he had them by their tail feathers anyway & they loved it, good thing they couldn't stay longer.
A big surprise was seeing a Schooner Adventure on Steve from Gloucester, USA as Finn & Haddie showed up for a Yankee Song's workshop, he & his wife were supposed to be in Ireland, thanks for dropping in. Meeting & hearing Helen Pitt & Steve Dawes was a great treat & delight, we hit it off right, right from the start, wonderful & talented folks. Another treat was meeting up with Ross Campbell after all that's been posted on the Merchant sailor's songs thread by him, sorry I was out of voice by the time you got CW-9. Seeing Deb C was like old home days, I had just seen her less than a week earlier, she's always a treat.
Micc, where'd ya go? I got to see you at the song compitation which we couldn't stay for (submitted a song right fro m finishing a spot, only to rush out the door to another spot. We got to wink at each other & that was that, wish we had a bit more time together, next time! Oh, lost in that song compitation but it at least got enough praise from one judge to get the very strong singing Armstrongs Patent that she was traaveling with to ask for a recording of it.
I know I'm missing out on some folks here but everyone was so wonderfull that I can no longer keep track. What a wonderfull & delightfull time, thanks to all
Jacqui, I'm tickled that you got to have dinner with "Huey your Hero", wasn't it something?

Barry