We go to an afternoon session at a hotel in the West Midlands -it is held in the library and casual punters are in there as well and sometimes stay to listen.

One session a group of four stayed until half time and seemingly enjoyed it - their parting words:-

"Really enjoyed that - I always wondered where all those old hippies went"

There was a folk club in Nottingham which unfortunately is no more as the pub didn't reopen after lockdown. The barmaid was very loud, seemingly permanently expecting, but did often tune in to the music when she wasn't serving.

One night we had a group of bellringers doing a support slot. We used to go round to the other bar to get served to avoid interrupting the singing.

I went round to but drinks
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The barmaid was talking to the punters in the other bar imitating the bellringers hand movements:-

"Yeah, they're doing folk music in there and they're ringing these bells like someone uddering a cow".