Mrs. Route, you have come to folk music late in your life.

I was going to Ireland in the 60's when the Irish were ignoring their traditional music.

I am half-Scottish. My mother was born in the Orkney Islands. The Scots ignored their traditional music for decades.

The reason folk music has had a great revival in these countries was because it had been oppressed.

So Ruth and Diane and all the others who write on these boards including me are all part of a movement to oppress English folk music, so it will rise again.

And to all the correspondents who have been keeping this secret from Mrs. Route all this time and on this and other message boards I am sorry - I just couldn't put up with her ignorant ramblings any longer.

See Mrs Route, we are oppressing folk music in England like it was in Scotland and Ireland to ensure its revival. Now surely that is not too difficult a concept for you?