My old mate of 40+ years' friendship, Rob, is coming over from Shropshire for the weekend. On Sunday it's the annual, invitation-only, back garden festival in a local Sussex village - we call it "Ditchfest" - and I'll be setting up the PA and mixing desk in the morning, mixing for local musicians from 2pm to around 10pm, and drinking beer, chatting and even playing myself throughout the day.

The rule is: Get your name and a time on the blackboard, you play for 15 minutes oe 3 tunes - whichever is the shorter - and then you're off. But of course you can always team up with some of the other musicians there, call yourselves something different - and away you go again!

It's a great day. People bring food and drink, there's a huge paella served at 8pm, and the various musical groups range from little children to grandparents making music of all sorts and kinds. At 10pm the PA is switched off, the camp fire coals are burning brightly and people sit round the fire and sing and play acoustically until it's bedtime.

That's what I call "Good Stuff"!