I'm sure your family has a steadfast and admirable dedication to folk music, Lizzie. Having said that, you, and by extension I presume your children, only discovered folk a couple of years ago, so it's not surprising they got a say in whether they wanted to go along to gigs. When my daughter was 6 months old, you see, she couldn't really express a preference. Of course, now she's 13, I got dragged along to an Emo gig a few months ago - payback's a bitch.

Yeah, shame on my folk world - where you do what you can to try and help. Shame on me. You've moaned about there not being enough young people at Sidmouth - I've explained that there are people, including me, who are trying to do something about it. But somehow your version of the folk world is its salvation, while mine is its destruction? Interestng logic, asd always.

The Elders are in your head, Lizzie. Look around you. Lots of people share their enthusiasms, without winding people up. It may serve you to believe that there is some self-appointed guard dedicated to keeping the likes of you out - but that's a convenient way of avoiding having to examine your own actions, and your own culpability, in this whole sorry mess.