Indeed gutted and absolutlly deflated.Nikki had travelled all the way from the Durham to put her undoubted fiddle talents on cd for posterity, deany had is tongue shaved and put new strings on the owld guitar, oaklet had polished his instrument, andy had ordered in the HIAB to move his extra special accordian box and I was wandering round with the contents of Superdrug rattling away in the old tum.

But high ho,such is the way and order of things.It is still on the cards when john the technician is back on his crane.So watch this space.