Oh well, we arrived home safely. The Jug was a great pub and it was good to meet some new people and some that I hadn't seen for some time.

Mike does have (at least in part) my sympathy. The night sort of reminded me of a Friday night in the Bangor Festival where old faces meet up for the first time in a year - lots of musicians but lots of chat with everyone catching up with their hello's etc - the music rarely got going there until nearly closing time because of that but we had all Saturday and Sunday to carry on playing - the Jug jut has the Wedsnesday night.

I don't know whether it was just me and whether my problem was caused by the noise levels but when the music started, it rarely, if ever felt, like a session and there were times, I felt as if I was more in a competition with 2 accordian players than in a session.

Anyway, sorry to sound miserable. I take the night for what it was - mostly a meeting of friends and very enjoyable for that reason. For me though, if I get up that way again (distance being the problem), I will hope to be sneaking in on a good session.

Jon