Morwen, you sing WHAT you want, WHERE you want. That's the essence of artistic freedom, that we all treasure and rely on and is at the heart of the folk revival. Pay no heed to an opinionated old fart like myself.

In defence of the 'teds', I can only say they were creatures of their time. Its hard for anybody to comprehend how insular and small minded the Britain of the 1940's and 1950's was. you heard your parents friends say - the only good German is a dead one. Only the bright kids at Grammar school got French lessons. Why do we need to learn French, we asked , we're not going there unless there's another war. And we lived on the east coast - france was just a few miles away.

The government invited people to come from Commonwealth countries, when there weren't even houses for the people here. And much of the housing was sub-standard. My relations grew up in terraced houses that had been condemned before the Ist world war as unfit for human habitation.

outsiders had a bloody tough time of it. but so did the native population.