'Westering Home With a Song in The Air' - it still lifts my spirits whenever I hear it. It is only with this thread that I realise how lucky I was - we sang almost exclusively folk songs. Plus, we had a sports mistress at that junior school who was so keen on folk dance it was compulsory, also the option to stay after normal school hours for the Country Dance Club. I was very proud to be in the Country Dance Display Team. I wish I could remember that teacher's name - she laid the foundation for a wonderful lifetime of enjoyment of folk dance, music and song. I'd certainly raise a glass to her.

Although I went to school in Chippenham, this happened before the onset of the Chippenham Festival so obviously that didn't have a bearing on the large part folk played in school life. But I now wonder whether that grounding for so many pupils had a bearing on the continued success of folk music, dance and song in Chippenham, and hence the Festival?

Polly