Thanks Dave....I think that says it all about 'your' world.

And you tell me to leave Sam's world and bow to the people in yours?

No way.

I would rather support Sam in everything he's doing Dave, and that is....supporting musicians left, right and centre...laying thousands of paths for people to travel down...than spend one more single moment in here with people like yourself.

You're right..I AM an idiot

I was an idiot to ever think that this world wanted to be opened up. It doesn't.

But 'this' is not my world, neither was the BBC board.

Sam's world is my world.

Blowz...you have no idea what's been going on here for so very long. If you back 'these people' over Sam, then I am so disappointed in you Blowz...I really am. They have poured vitriol down on me for so very long, you know that. I have tried and tried to fight them...but what am I fighting for here? Can you tell me Blowz?   Because sadly I no longer know.

It wasn't me who started this thread, but perhaps some think I did. I didn't.

I merely brought Sam's site to your attention, that is the folk world's attention, because I stupidly thought that as there are hundreds of pages about folk musicians in there, with masses of information, that some might find it interesting, that's not even touching upon all the information that is about England and it's history etc....

But no...none of you are interested. The Albion Chronicles and the rest of Sam's sites are not for you....You do not see the magic, or the sunshine or the sparkle in them....because you only ever look for the darkness in all things.

He has brought together an enormous amount of information, into some truly magical pages, about song, dance, traditions, history, nature, films, writers...on and on it goes.

Yet all of you see ONLY the mistakes. That is ALL that has been mentioned here. NOTHING else.

Blowz, for many of the people who've been hounding me on here and on the BBC, and Dave you are one of them I'm afraid...this is nothing to do with Sam....It is purely to do with me.

Strange Dave, that when you PM'd me recently, you were kindness itself....flattering me left right and centre about the fact that in your eyes, I had worn well for my age...and I thanked you for those kind words. You then asked me 'Who's Sam' and I told you he was the man who created The Albion Chronicles. When you knew you'd get no more information out of me...you went away..and all this bizarre and unpleasant behaviour started.

Well I'll tell you now who Sam is.

Sam is the man that I love.

He is the man who has taught and is teaching me more about folk music than any of you could ever dream of even touching upon. Sam teaches with love you see. No negativity, no humiliation or disparaging remarks, he does not use his knowledge as a weapon, as so many of you do...He gives nothing but support and love.

He, unlike most of you, is one of the most interesting, kind and fascinating people I have ever come across and I will do all I can to support him and his many sites too. He also has a myriad of Myspace pages about folk musicians as well. All supportive, all helping to spread the word...and all unofficial sites...all well marked. He works harder than most of you will ever know....for the music.

His pages were born from a deep grief, but they have brought him a deep and lasting love that many of you could not even begin to touch upon.

That love comes from me.

Yes. I fell in love, not only with Sam's sites....but with Sam himself. That love has been rock solid from the moment he came into my life and it will be for the rest of my life too.

I told him, over and over, that standing beside me would bring him nothing but unpleasantness in the folk world, and do you know what his answer was? He made the Sam & Lizzie site for me. Not only that, but he linked every single page of his huge web of pages up to that site.

My God! You know....I'm finding this so easy to write! I thought I'd be upset...but I'm not.

I actually, for the first time EVER, now want to leave this world....It is a bad place to be. It's been a bad place for me for so very, very long.

It was The Albion Chronicles that began to open my eyes to what this world could and should be. It was Sam's sites that laid it all before me....and it was Sam's sites whose paths I went down. And I am SO pleased and grateful that I did. I could of stayed with all of you for so much longer...fighting, yelling, but there's no need anymore.

My path is with Sam from now on.

Our journey is just beginning.

For many of you, your journey, it seems to me, has stopped. It stopped when you let the coldness of hatred, anger and bitterness come into your hearts, it stopped when you sought to destroy rather than to encourage...it stopped...inside so many of you.

I hope you find your way out of it all....to a very different world.

So yes Dave...this time I WILL go. I have no wish to be amongst people such as yourself, Joan Crump, Diane Easby or Ralph Jordan on this site, or any other 'folk' site anymore.   

I very much hope that you enjoy YOUR music, that you enjoy YOUR club and that you enjoy YOUR world.

And Dave, for your information...THIS is the thread that I was SUPPOSED to 'go out' on...

....because in this thread is YOUR story...The story of the those English Traditionalists whose souls seem so filled with obsessiveness, with negativity, with darkness, with maliciousness...Souls that cannot and do not want ever to share or tolerate....Souls that cannot laugh or smile or welcome or be kind or uplifting...but just seem to want to abuse those who are not part of their 'little' club.

Sam is worth a million of you...and he is the man that I choose, over and above anyone else in this world.   

I'm off to pastures filled with love, with a man who knows more about the folk world than the rest of you put together, but who would never humiliate anyone, or deride them or belittle them, but only ever open his arms wide and welcome them, support them and put them at their ease.

That is one of the many reasons why I love him.

It truly is back to being YOUR world now......



Sam's Lizzie