G'day again all,

Joe: Sorry, I didn't know I could fiddle with the Subject Box. I will keep posts together in future, if that is the best mode of management.

Richard: As you may have seen by now, I posted lyrics and tune in a separate thread. Joe Offer, no respect for my aching fingers (typing in all the lyrics and setting the music)has beaten me across the knuckles for thread-splitting!

I guess I can't really complain of the RSI, when you are winging this left-handed. I can emphasise - I broke my left wrist late 1998 (much more mundane: I tripped over the trailer tow bar while dumping rubbish at Lithgow tip, clearing up for a Bush Music Club camp in the Blue Mts. However, I plugged on with a sore wrist, not knowing it was broken, and the next sheet of old corrugated iron unloaded revealed a distictly corrugated Copperhead - an Australian cousin of the Cobra, but rather more poisonous!) I got away with a short cast, because the break was to the rotating part of the wrist. I was still able to drive (although the RTA may not have agreed!) and I had driven 150 kilometres home before going to the doctor's. Anyway, a few aches still persist, but I attack them with a good session of Button Accordion playing.

The German Hurdy Girls sound fascinating. If you have any compact articles on them, I would appreciate a text file, or a B/W GIF of pictures, sent to my email address: bbolton@energy.com.au - if you can manage it left-handed.

get better - and keep an eye out for