Good heavens - the Cyril Davies All-Stars. Yes, I quite liked their stuff but it was a bit pickled in aspic in the 1940s version of blues, wasn't it? I liked it when blues progressed - but you see it was defined by a musical structure and that was retained. Folk music is not defined by musical structure as otherwise it could not be a global concept. And the 1954 definition (still the best I have seen) does not purport to set out requirements of style.

I'm sorry to others who have obviously been driven to distraction by LIssie's views on sex. I didn't realise that she had obsessed about slutwalk to the extent mentioned above. I think it is admirable. I suppose I should have guessed.

I don't suppose the idea of folkies jumping on each other would be complete without mentioning a former member of the (aptly named in this case) Loose Women morris side (they hail from the village of Loose, pronounced Loooooooooooooz, in Kent, who was expelled for bringing the morris into disrepute. I thought she deserved a medal, but I am to fat and old and ugly ever to have been invited to any of her parties - and MUCH to fat old ugly selfconscious and readily embarrassed to have gone even if invited.   And I'm not telling you who I know did go...