Hors d'oeuvres, chicken Kiev, sweet potatoes, two vegetables, (peas with mushrooms and John's special recipe for brussel sprouts), raw vegetable plate (carrots, celery, olives), and choice of four wines, followed about an hour later by dessert (two kinds of pie, pecan and pumpkin) with French vanilla ice cream and Ethiopian coffee. Seven people altogether, Phoebe (a long time friend), Bernice (one of my guitar students) and her sister Mary, Nora (another longtime friend and neighbor), John (long involved in folk music and a free-lance writer), with, of course, my wife Barbara and myself. Much good conversation on a wide variety of subjects. I hope you also had a pleasant day.

Basically, I was addressing the musical aspect of the question as dictated by David Franks who, if not a "card carrying member" of the BNP, seems to advocate their position, not just on music but on political matters in general, and registering my objections to it, while at the same time attempting to elicit more information from people such as Diane on the BNP's efforts to make use of English folk music for their own purposes. Apparently I didn't make myself clear, because I find myself under attack for presumably dwelling on what Diane considers to be a trivial aspect of the conflict.

So—exactly how is the BNP attempting to use folk music for their own purposes? In some detail please, how are they going about this? What are they doing?

Don Firth