Hello Troops.
      Just to say that my health is restored. I'm OK now, although I have to keep taking the tablets (as they say).
       I saw those BBC4 British Folk music programmes. I must say that I was seriously annoyed at most of it, although some of it was very good. It was all so very heavily biased towards Traditional English folk music, which of course has it's place in the scheme of things, But only a part of it, and a minor part at that, at least in the scene that I remember. Anyone watching, who had never been in a folk club in their lives would be left with a very false impression of what it was really about. I was there. I was that soldier. I remember when for instance, there were seven folk clubs in Walsall alone, all of which were well attended. I remember the Pipers and the Folk Cottage in Cornwall, Les Cousins, The Troubadour, two whole pages of the Melody Maker taken up by what was on in the London Folk clubs, The Boggery, well I could go on and on. A lovely, lively, happy folk scene with lots of new songs performed by superbly talented singer/songwriters. Lots of lovely music and lots of laughs. Where did it all go? Well, I could tell you, but don't get me started.......