As readers elsewhere may have noticed, the refurbishment of my house after subsidence (thank you insurers) procedes toward conclusion, approximately coterminously with the end of the UK festival season.

I have no festivals booked (yet) after Tenterden.

Sally and Ken have gone from the pub next door. The current managers - well, you know the line "Clogs, and he'll always be clogs love...?

The landlady of the pub over the road in the other pub (new landlady, not the woman I used to love to hate and her bind-eye-to-drugs-deals-husband is gone too) is checking whether her lease permits her to put a guest bitter in occasionally (I am sure the EC directive so requires). Normally she does not sell beer, but only lager and keg and girly drinks. However the pub has a nice acoustic (and a music licence).

If I were minded, for the winter, ie after Tenterden, to resurrect the once-a-month North Kent song/sessions (arrive, go to pub, drink, sing/play/recite/declaim/dance anything you like (even country, James Blount or Irish rebel), go back to my house, drink more (if you bring it) till you fall over, use guest bedrooms/floors/caravan/etc for sleeping, wake with hangover and be obliged to eat chilli vegetarian stoo, go home and regret it) - exactly who might be interested if I do it?

I would hope Essex Girl, Dipsodeb and family, Fisheye squeeze and George, Growler, Melodeonboy, Little Legs, and maybe TDL might be relied upon. Please log in and confirm.

Can anyone get a definite commitment from Woodsie and Kenneth Ingham or others from S. London? What about Gwenzilla?

Can anyone figure out why no other Kent folkies come ?

I ask as the nuclear core is on the cusp of viability.

Response may decide whetehr it occurs or not.