Well thank you Rick, bbc, BSeed, RiB, Big Mick and Catspaw and in advance to anyone else for your kind welcomes! I feel completely overwhelmed and lost for words (for once!). I'm glad I stumbled on this place and can sense immediately that I'll like it here. Although I'm Irish I live in that most surreal of countries, Belgium, and Catspaw has already done me the honour of sending me the recent and entertaining thread on that! Most of it true too! For the record, I'm 47, play a variety of stringed and bashing instruments after a fashion (or should that be out of fashion?), sing hopefully but badly, am married to Patricia (who sings very well indeed) and have a daughter Hannah who's also caught the bug (despite my efforts to explain the vow of poverty that goes with this!). I look forward to being part of this little community and hope I can bring something positive to it. Once again..many thanks!

mcmoo