As I remember it Dick, your "Ian accused me of being a drug taker" story is because you made a completely impenetrable post to the fRoots board. It had erratic punctuation and sometimes not even spaces between the words, just like your post above in fact.

Ian, quite understandably, used the phrase "what are you on?". It's a figure of speech...

It's a question which still hasn't been answered. I'm guessing that you have full use of all your fingers seeing as your concertina playing is so accomplished (not a flippant remark by the way...) - do you read back what you've typed before pressing 'submit'? Often it seems as if you don't.

I'm surprised to hear that anyone would think that fRoots actively ignores many young performers in this country. The magazine is famous in certain quarters for being overenthusiastic to the point of putting people on the cover before they've recorded an album or done anything of note.