Well, it's Saturday morning and the sun is shining with the good weather due to continue over the Deal Maritime Festival weekend. Martin hits it lucky with the weather every year and with our recent washed-out summers, September is obviously the time to be holding folk festivals! A great start to the weekend last night - we made the Deal Folk Club which was pretty busy considering the competition of John Kirkpatrick & Chris Nixon at the Town Hall. Me & Carole will be on the door at Deal Town Hall this aft so hope to see some of you there for Jings, Rambling Boys, Bob Kenward, Ken, Sue, Bernie etc. etc. Looks like we're in for a good weekend's music and Martin deserves a big vote of thanks for all the work he's put into organising this - and everyone else who's involved in putting this on for another year.

Adrian