Interesting that this doesn't qualify as "news" on the EFDSS website.

Instead there is "Wear your badge with pride - Special offer for members: Introduce a friend to the EFDSS and get a free silver sword lock badge for yourself and the new member. It is exciting times for the EFDSS and for the folk world in general; more and more people are joining or returning to the Society."

Which, one might have thought, implies that Nick Hallam must have been doing quite a good job.

It really must be difficult dancing when you have this habit of shooting yourself in the foot...