awww...durn, Mick....you're hired as permanant chair of the Publicity & Shmooozing committee...(same wages as you got as temporary chairman..).

Now that I'm half-way awake, I want to comment especially about a couple of workshops I attended. The tribute to The Copper Family was amazing...just wallowing in those songs, led by folks who had sung them for years, and who had known the Coppers personally, was 'almost' as good as the two occasions I got to hear them in person. John Roberts and Heather Wood and Andy Wallace and Sussex Carole...thank you for the 'feel' and energy, as well as for wonderful choices! (Would that we had 2 more hours)

Even though I don't play a squeeze-box, I enjoyed tremendously the knowlege and versatility on display...many different styles of instrument and a great set of tunes....wow...

By helping Jacqui lead Comic songs, I had to listen to ummmm...got to hear "The Gladiator" twice! And Georgous Gary reprised "When I Was a Boy"....one of those tour-de-farces that knocks your socks off. (He posted the words sometime in the past...search)...and more other funny stuff was sung than I dare try to remember.

finally...as one who is continually fretting about the nuts & bolts running of this circus, I want to thank the various folks who just DID stuff to help out....setting up chairs for the Sunday concert, cleaning things in the small kitchen, moving tables about in both the dining hall and the retreat center, helping other folks load & unload...etc...etc...I'm sure many good deeds were done that I never even saw. It sure makes it all happen easier.

Yeah, sure...let's do it again.