My weekend started in the RMA with the excellent Tim Laycock and floor singers. It was nice to be back in the Ship for the final Sunday night session, but the Deal Hoy is a very congenial venue and bigger so I hope more use will be made of it in the future. We came into Roger Resch's Saturday evening session there a little late, and the landlady personally carried two chairs through for us!

I found it hard to sing in the Green Berry from the corner of the L-shaped bar, but this improved on the Sunday when John Barden relocated the centre of the singaround to further down the side. The Bohemian looked pretty deserted when I passed it so I think they missed out. My greatest surprise was finding myself in an abandoned hotel on the Monday morning, but that is another story...

I'm very pleased the festival has survived so, from a passenger, thanks to all the crew.