another belated birthday best to White Tiger; your mum's birthday is the same as my dad's

I missed the great line-up at Gainsborough; I went to Scotland for mid-term break instead. The weather's great and I'm doing a lot of walking. Someone called my name, I looked and it was Clayton whom I'd met at Portaferry last year, an Australian teaching in England. He hadn't know anything about Mudcat, just happened to be at the Barholm hostel on the right day. Castar na daoine ....