I dont know what that "Eats, shoots and leaves" woman would have made of the apostrophe in the title of this thread. It might have got a whole chapter of it's own in the book. I have, by the way, left a small hostage to fortune in this message.
   Fesitival addiction, I must say, must be reaching terrifying proportions in the country: with many festivals on evevry weekend, and disposable income reaching such dizzy heights these days (among the folkie clases, at least), it is small wonder that some people are getting a lot more than is good for them. The worrry is that fans from the more financially challenged areas of society will start having to resort to street crime in order to raise the money for Sidmouth, Cambridge, Whitby et al. Where will it end?