Folkiedave, why do you have to be so insulting to Cap'n Birdseye, he is entitled to his opinions and views,

I must confess I go through periods of trying to resist posting on threads that the Captain starts.

Then once again he posts something that is patently untrue. Of course he is entitled to his opinions. What (IMHO) he is not entitled to do is show either incomplete knowledge or misunderstand what someone has said. Especially when with five minutes thought and/or research what he says can be shown to be wrong.

As his posting on the subject of Maud Karpeles shows.

What the Captain said was that she helped Sharp with "much of his collecting". Sharp had in fact more or less completed his collecting of folk songs in England and published his thoughts in his book "English Folk Songs: Some Conclusions" in 1907.

His morris and sword dancing collecting was also mostly done and also completed before Karpeles came on the scene.

He had difficulty writing because of neuritis so she became his amanuensis and then as it says in Wikipedia entry his secretary in 1913.

She accompanied him with his collecting in the Appalachians for a total of forty six weeks in two separate visits between 1916 and 1918. She herself collected in Newfoundland which Sharp had intended to visit but never did.

Those aren´t opinions, those are facts. You and Dick are entitled to try and contradict them. None of what I have written negates the Wikipedia entry that Dick copied and pasted - neither does that entry say as Dick did, that she helped Sharp with "much of his collecting". It doesn´t say, that because she didn´t.

You see Dick is planting his blackcurrant bushes, a bit early in my opinion, personally I´d have left them a bit later - but of course the climate in Sheffield is different to where Dick lives. So he is entitled to his opinion when it comes to planting blackcurrants.

And Lizzie, your posts are so easy to spot. Please don´t.