"You haven't answered my questions, or Stu's"...wrong, Ruth.

"Have you thought about re-training?" Ruth...with 4 technical certificates in manufacturing and a degree in humanities, I think I'm very employable, and, previously pressed, HAVE already detailed my VARIOUS attempts.

"Do you not find it something of a paradox that it's the taxes of immigrants like me that are paying your way"...no: there has been a lot of pro-immigrationsim, as I HAVE already said, under New (over the border Scots) Labour, and (one thing we can all agree on) I'm the opposite - a repatriate.

And, again, if anyone, including you Ruth, on the folk/poetry scene would like me to do a full paid gig, I'll have a go - I try to get through my repertoire (listed on the left-side) once per week, with keyboards and English flute/tenor recorder.