I'm still waiting to be "discovered" after 40-odd (some very odd!) years on the UK folk scene.

Perhaps I was never hungry enough. Perhaps it was just that I always had a reasonably well-paid day job. Perhaps it was because I didn't go to festivals. Perhaps I just didn't have the talent.

Nonetheless, I will continue to run and attend singarounds and clubs, do my "spot" and enjoy the response of the audience and any applause that I may get. Why bother? Because I love the music and the songs and sharing them with others. Because I enjoy hearing other unsung singers and instrumentalists who feel much the same way as I do. Because I have made a number of good friends who are singers, some well-known (and therefore at least paid, if not well paid!), some not.

It is a good job that I can afford to be an amateur in the true meaning of the world.

But, as advised, I never gave up the day job!