John sometimes does some gigs with a bloke who was in the same class as me at scholl - Dave Fletcher. Do you know Dave as well, Captain? You'd like him - he does gigs with a guy playing midi-ed up concertina.

I saw John at the Fylde festival last year, and I got a chance to ask him something I always wondered. I always wondered seeing as he was a librarian in Grimsby, if he's ever met the poet, Philip Larkin who was the university librarian at Hull - just over the water.

Apparently not - although he'd once found a letter on file from the great man. Apparently he signed himself - just with his surname - Larkin.

Sorry, thread drift! Okay teabreaks over - heads down!