Same with me Freda. Often I haven't got the brain/energy/enthusiasm to respond after doing a bit of keying in and deleting but I also enjoy reading the various things. I like the idea of 'music' community - every community has to have a common thread, a sort of unifying thing - don't they? I feel that music is my commonality to mudcat and ultimately that is what I'm learning about through the various posts that go up. Often I can't be bothered with the non-music stuff but then, it's all a matter of opinion isn't it? What's that saying - 'there's nothing new under the sun' - we all spend a lifetime repeating and refining our language, our ideas, our interests, the things that hold us down and pick us up. Ah, who knows? Maybe I just sometimes have a short attention span!