"I need to get that idea out..."

Hmmm...see, I fear that's what this is all about, Lizzie...YOUR perspective, YOUR voice. You. Alone. Self-aggrandisement. That's why, despite the myriad organisations that might need your willing hands and mind, you prefer to rant on Mudcat about the world's injustices, and look for opportunities to be perceived as this wonderful, one-woman crusade.

You know, we had a meeting last week in Sidmouth. It was a call for volunteers to help us at key times in our promotional cycle to distribute posters, leaflets, and undertake other promotional activity - yes, even stuffing envelopes. In fact, there has always been a dedicated group of people there that helps with these activities at key times of the year. Now, I know that you don't live in Sidmouth any more, but in those years that you did and your husband was on the committee, just out out of interest, did you do any of this? You have claimed in the past that your acres of words on the internet somehow helped the festival, but did you actually ever get out and do that simplest of activities, dropping off leaflets and stuffing envelopes? Or had you already given up stuffing envelopes at that stage?

I'm happy to say that I haven't. You do the jobs that need to be done - no matter how mundane - because someone has to.

Again, purely out of interest: have you contacted anyone in the local folk scene about running your festival? Have you checked to see whether there's anything already going on that you could help with, or to find out if there's anyone with knowledge and expereicne of events who might be able to help you get it off the ground? Or is this another of your one-woman crusades that ultimately is really just about attention-seeking, and not putting in the hard graft to make something happen?

See, in this world there are talkers and there are doers. Which side are you on?