Thanks Referee, thanks Breezy. Normally the praise of friends has to be taken with a pinch of salt, but I know you both to be fair (and in the case of Breezy, stingy) judges, so this is praise indeed!

Moira does have a great voice, doesn't she? She was very critical of her own performance, and thought she could have done better, but hey, what's the difference between brilliant and even more brilliant? I know she wants to do "Flowers" on her own some time, and I am sure it will be a cracker.

Playing with the "Band That Never Was" on the recording was quite an experience - but I have to say, playing with them live was something else altogether; great fun, and I'd do it again like a shot. The consistency of the band was different this time of course, but that was not the reason - plus, we'd only rehearsed for 2 hours prior to the gig! I put much of it down to the new arrangements, and the man to thank for much (most) of that is Robb Johnson, whose vision when it comes to thinks like that far outstrips mine.

And everyone in "the band" had such fun!. Squeezy, Amanda and Miranda all said it time and again. And at the end, when we were singing "Watermelon Seeds" (rehearsal time: 2 verses or 90 seconds) we were dancing up there; and so was Moira and a couple of others in the front row that I could see.

For the first time I was preforming in front of company colleagues, including four ex-bosses of mine; not folkies in any sense. And it was nice seeing their tears and to see them joining in the choruses. One said at the end "I never had so much fun in a long long time", and that from a guy owning 2-3 houses in wonderful countryside, well-respected at work and with many friends, with a lovely family and who knows how to enjoy himself.

After 7 hours solid sleep this morning I woke up feeling as if I had run a Marathon. It took a further 5 hours sleep for me to feel human again.

Northampton, here I come...