Thank you so much, all of you - I'm quite overwhelmed with all the praise we received. We actually did enjoy it ourselves this year! Even the 1 hour power cut on the Friday had everyone pulling together. (Reminiscent of the blitz I believe - not that I would remember!!)

I didn't see a great deal, but my "highs" were the Meet The Artist with Martin W-R (which I gave to myself to MC!!), the amazing Sunday Sing, and the emotive singing at the Survivors Session (which had me crying my eyes out).Oh, and all the kind people who praised my Sounds of Folk programme, plus the numberous Jamieson's.

Yes Jane, the Shellbacks are coming back - they're friends, so I couldn't do it without you!!

We're having a committee meeting at the Waggon tonight, and a review meeting after; we actually do go through all the evaluations and comments every year, and make changes as necessary!

Ken Hall proposed the toast to Saddleworth 2005 at the Survivors session - his speech set me off again!!

See you all soon - probably Whitby is the next.

Love, Ali xx