No-one's mentioned the Radway yet. We spent most of the week there and had a very good time indeed. Very very few of the usual suspects were missing, quite a few good newcomers and a *lot* of good music. The only time it went wrong was on Monday night when seemingly the entire set of Radway regulars decamped to Flos Headford and Paul Burgess's programmed session in the Rugby club and the pub was completely empty of musicians. Some of us felt a bit guilty about that (including, I should say, Flos himself, who made a point of spending much of his time in the Radway for the next couple of days after that).

I'd like to see more workshops, but unlike the previous few years we actually went to some workshops this year. This was because we didn't have the awful, expensive and invidious workshop season ticket system to deal with. I would be very upset if that ever returned.

Oh, and the Ceilidh in the Ford didn't happen again as usual on Friday. We look forward to it not happening next year.

We've already rebooked our accommodation for next year.

Chris