You all need to know that I have now ripped said copy of the Daily Mail into pieces and put it into my green Haringey recycling box. It has served its purpose and the newsagent has promised not to tell my neighbours that I ever bought it. Dave is right in saying that I didn't tell the full story above but that was deliberate. Here is not the place when something potentially positive is happening for Nic Jones: yesterday the Good Tradition Award for Game Set Match, today an unexpected boost from a tabloid. At long last his music is getting out there. The fact that I reluctantly parted with 45p to Associated Newspapers rather than to Mollie is not going to either retard or hasten the fall of capitalism and I already have everything Nic has recorded anyway. But if it will make Ron Olesko feel better about me, I put a cheque for 45p in the post to York now . . .