"I'm not sure if my fireplace counts as a designated folk context yet though. "

Hey, I'd love to have a 'folk fireplace' in my re-imagined village cottage where we old gits can sit and....hang on, what bloody thread am I on?

OK. Right, I'm there now. When I stripped off the old wallpaper on the chimney breast of the old Station Master's house where we live there were signatures from, you guessed it - old station masters - going back to 1863. The old range has gone but I've put in a woodburner and it's still the heart of the house and we do sit around and sing folk-style-and-folk-inspired songs (when we're not watching Corrie), so I claim this as a folk fireplace and am going to apply for an Arts Council grant to hold performances there.