While I like to pretend I visit Mudcat for erudite discussions of folk music, I have to say I have not been dropping in all that often in the last few months. Certainly not as often as I used to. And the reason is pretty clear: I used to call in to see what Sir JOhn had to say about things, because he is the funniest contributor we have, by a million miles.

Please come back, JOhn.