G'day Hrothgar,

Nice to see you back among the 'catters (if not yet the vertical!). There's been a bit a rash of this sort of rash behaviour ... Margaret Bradford is just up and around after trusting her SO to put up a ladder for her. (Moderately remodelled a few vertebrae ... but she's pretty fit and coping well!)

I agree about the actuality ... and the legalities ... of "bans on treason songs" - but folklore needs us to examine the 'believed' in respect of what is a specialised branch of oral history.

(I seem to remember a recent thread on just this dichotomy between perception and actuality in a recent thread on "No Irish Need Apply". Apparently, it didn't happen, it wasn't said or written, but generations of Irish-Americans will swear to its truth!)

Regards,

Bob