"what is the one about the Hedgehog?"
The story is told about John Brune (though it might be apochrophal) travelling to London by train with a cardboard box on his lap into which he continually peered.
An elderly lady in the seat opposite asked him what he was looking at and he said it was his pet hedgehog who was rather ill and he was taking it to a vet in London. He went on to say that the problem was that the house he lived in had no garden and he was unable to get a steady supply of worms and slugs which were the hedgehog's regular diet.
The lady offered to help by sending a supply from her garden and asked for a name and address, to which Brune replied, "Ewan MacColl, 35 Stanley Avenue, Beckenham, Kent."
I thought it was amusing; so did MacColl when he heard it, though he never said whether he got anything through the post.
It was certainly more amusing and imaginative than the scrawling of 'Arsehole' on the back of a guest performers chair, which appears to have taken our OPs fancy.
Brune later went on to greater things when he nearly managed to sabotage one of the most important (artistically and socially), piece of radio broadcasting ever made, The Travelling People'.
"Lord Randall [a boring song]"
No it isn't.
"my apologies I have forgotten her name,"
Mary Delaney - a wonderful Travelling lady who can be heard on the double CD 'From Puck To Appleby, available from the Musical Traditions site and from us in Ireland (thanks for the opportunity of a shameless plug).
Jim Carroll