Let me correct a rather garbled account which you have from my old mate Scooby. It's true that Calennig broke up; I had a major stroke more than six years ago, and it was all I could do even to stand up on a stage and sing, let alone to play the melodeon. I can't play the melodeon even now, while I wait for my left arm to wake up.

I did not "leave" the Dame; she had found another man while I spent nine months in hospital. I was discharged from hospital, and I spent almost as long confined to a tiny room with no facilities - Rhondda Cynon Taff Social Services and the Welsh NHS really were abysmally useless. The Dame offered to buy me out, and I got well and truly done selling the house. The Calennig Band (the dance band) and the Dame had no room for me; I was really desperate to play, so I obtained a tabwrdd, which is an ancient North Wales percussion instrument with a very interesting history. The line-up of Dr Price's Fire Band is my partner Olly Price on fiddle, Mike Greenwood on melodeon and myself on tabwrdd.

I'm really very sorry to break away from the thread like that, but I have to correct tales which go astray. Portsmouth Maritime Festival has a great website and timetable - especially Jeff Warner!