Yes Charlie, there are a few heads bobbing on the surface.

Gerry, too right about the singing sessions - they are back with a vengeance, folks! The singing room rang til midnight, and then the stairwell in the session bar til 3.30 or later.

My special moments from many great ones were in the sessions. Bugsy - take a bow, also for your spot in the Troubadour. A lovely Irish singer from Melbourne called Mossie Scanlon. And right at the end in the early hours of this morning, Evan Mathieson dredging up from his end-of festival brain almost all the words of Devlin's General Store almost all in the right order, and Margaret Walters put on the spot to sing Kittie Kane - both great songs by John Warner for those unfamiliar, from Pithead in the Fern, one of the best folk albums ever released.

Kittie Kane just breaks me up. John should have submitted it as a PhD on prostitution in the Gold Fields. Nothing more needs to be said. Mate, when you get to heaven they will all be there to greet you.

And the quote of the festival over- (or under) heard from a 20 foot high fairy: "I do the day shift. There's another fairy who does the night shift."

Chris