Brian Dawson is wonderful, and a lovely and modest man. In fact, it may be his modesty that's the problem: one of my friends, who has known him for many years, was having a conversation with him at Haxey. Brian was talking about someone whose material ought to be recorded and archived before it was lost, and my friend said, "But Brian, the same is true of you!" His response was that his knowledge and experieces (all held in his head, as Villan has said) don't hold the same sort of value. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.