Thank you for the news about Duncan.

I was at the storytelling festival in Edinburgh and just returned yesterday. While there Donald Smith (Director of the Scottish Storytelling Centre) told a group of us at Jan Blake's workshop that Duncan had had a stroke. Later in the afternoon I asked the Centre staff to check that Taffy had been told. Later on they told me that it had been done.

I only had the bare information, that Duncan had had a stroke, nothing more. I phoned Stanley Robertson with the news this morning. His comment was "Duncan is resilient."

Duncan was one of my inspirations to start storytelling. I was lucky enough to be able to tell him a riddle and a couple of stories at the Guid Crack Club in Edinburgh a couple of years ago, and was rewarded with a pat on the shoulder and a peck on the cheek.

I have some gigs lined up from the end of this month onwards.

Let's keep the stories coming!!!

Diane Taylor