Woven Wheat whispers forum was closed about a year ago. Lizzie was a very occasional contributor.

The current forum is at the linked Harvest Home site. I'm not aware of any posts by Lizzie. I could be wrong. They don't usually particularly interest me.

More to the point, Ruth, and no disrespect intended, but I can't quite see what point you're making or why you're making it... Compared to Mudcat, HH is almost achingly mild-mannered and polite to the point of occasional dullness - even when we disagree with each other. I suspect it's because with a few exceptions - such as Sedayne and Mike Bosworth - none of us have been around the official folk scene very much, so maybe don't have such big, sharp, well-honed axes to grind. Some of the members aren't involved in the mainstream folk world at all, in fact. EFDSS always announces new issues of the EDS magazine there, though, which is nice.

I'm biased, but I think even if people end up not liking it, it's worth a quick furtle round Harvest Home. If nothing else, it demonstrates what some of the non-scene types (to borrow a phrase from the gay community!) who would consider themselves in some way aligned to the concept of folk music are up to.

Space.

To get briefly back on-topic in order to justify this post, whilst I might try to encourage friends to try a little taste of folk music with the odd carefully crafted compilation CDr and exhortations to spend, spend, spend, I don't like robbing bloggers either. In case it wasn't clear from my earlier post.

Cheers

Nigel