Chris - I'm not at all sure how (if?) I stay sane, as the day job is in the Traffic Management Division of the Department for Transport, and there is no escape from parking and traffic management issues even when I leave work (and manage to cope with London Transport tube disruptions on way home). It's the sort of thing my friends moan to me about when I'm trying to switch off. And if I do drive to a folk club in the evening or festival at the weekend, I'm lucky if I can park near home when I get back.... thank you Les Barker for "Send in the Cones".

I haven't been to Sharps for a while. We did get quite a few Middle Bar Singers up to sing the Toast Song after Bob Merrit's funeral, but that's not quite the same as having 8 guests up together for extended guest performances in first and second halves!

Kitty