hi,Barbara,firstly I would like to thank you and Tom,for doing an excellent MCing job on Friday. as you know I was suffering from late planes,and an organisational gremlin,that gave me added stress[a rogue E mail that I received just as I was   about to leave, changing my accomodation,which on closer inspection[[after the event]] turned out to be from the previous year].
Richard never informed me about the mass shanty sing,and as my voice seemed to be in good form,my earlier spots had been easy compared to some peoples,I went for it,and was luckily fine the next day.
With a festival like this,The pub sessions can be un predictable,much depends on folkies turning up and joining in chouruses,which seemed to be the case most of the time this year,.
Also,there did seem to be, quite a large proportion of holidaymakers who were interested.
I thought the festival was better than last year.