Time to reconvene the Knights of the Kitchen Table. And welcome back all the fair maidens (they can be knights, too, as we're not sexist in here.)

These last few weeks have been unusually hectic: (Ron Davies hectic.)
Now it's time to slow down. I have plenty of stuff to write about, but am more interested in hearing about how y'all are doing. I must admit, I don't spot many threads that catch my attention these days.
The English folk community is much more close knit, so the bulk of the music threads relate to musicians, venues and festivals I have no connection to. There's nothing wrong with that. But, I haven't been running across many of you in the threads I do check out. Maybe you've been as busy as I have.

Got a lot of projects going on. I'll just mention one, for starters.
In recent years, more and more people are recording my songs.. including ones that I haven't recorded. I made a couple of tapes of my songs that hadn't been recorded and shared them with friends of mine, who've ended up recording them. I'm reaching the point where I could introduce a song by saying "Here's a song I wrote that I learned off a recording by Susan Trump." Or others. Worse yet, the words to a lot of songs are floating around in letters, old e-mails, napkins and the backs of old envelopes. So, I'm finally collecting all the songs I've written, typing them into the computer and printing them up to put in a large loose-leaf binder. Then, I want to record all the ones that I haven't recorded. I'll end up with a couple of CDs of original songs, home-recorded and not necessarily of the quality to release commercially. But, it will be a starter. Maybe I'll feel driven eough to do another CD or two for commercial release. (That's a dumb term, by the way... nothing I produce is particularly commercial.) But, I figure that I wasn't given the gift to write these songs so that they could go moulderin' away in the basement.

So, what are you folks up to these days?

Sir Jeremiah